Black Dots

Bad Brains | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: December 20, 2005
• Release Date: December 20, 2005
• Label: CAROLINE ASTRALWERKS - CAT
• Copyright: (C) 1996 Caroline Records, Inc.
• Total Length: 34:35
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• ASIN: B000TETFDA
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,755 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars love it, October 21, 2006

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Phillip Kerman (West Linn, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Dots (Audio CD)

I don't know how I missed this one when it was first released! I had just figured it was the newer line-up who brought us "Rise". I must not have looked very close.

This album really rocks... but not in the Bad Brains punk way--more like Stooges... call it pre-punk. Some of the arrangements here almost sound like another band covering Bad Brains. Not that different, but it's really odd for me to hear these tracks having listened to their other stuff for so long. It's sort of like if you only heard "Rock for Light" and then years later heard their first release ("Bad Brains"). But in that case, the difference is subtle... here it's a big jump into the roots that I didn't even know existed.

The recording quality is quite good. Not only because you wouldn't expect much from a 4-track early Bad Brains. It's definitely better than "Bad Brains".

I can't stop listening to this--so many great versions: "Supertouch", "Banned in D.C.", "How Low Can a Punk Get?"... and "Don't Bother Me" is cool because it was reworked later. I will say that H.R. is just a tad reserved. Instead of just off the wall wild screams it's closer to "yeah yeah yeah" in-between the main lyrics... where, in later recordings, he's inserting yells from another world. But that's a pretty minor nit-pick. As an aging punk maybe I'm not hard to impress--but this is the best music purchase I've made in a long while. I had to wait a few weeks before writing this review because I'm often suspect when I really dig a CD on the first listen--but this one hasn't worn off at all.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars epitome of intense, November 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Black Dots (Audio CD)

The first thing they ever did, HR and the boys don't come up short with this one. With classics like "Pay To Cum", and "The Regulator", along with never released sonic crusades like "You're a Migraine", the Bad Brains show that they were the masters of hardcore punk two years before their debut album turned everybody else into believers. If you like the Bad Brains but don't own this, you better save your pennies and start practicing your air guitar.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Quintesential Bab Brains Album, April 20, 2005

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Stephen Brown (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black Dots (Audio CD)

If you are unfamiliar with the Brains, buy this record and all of their others will follow their way into your collection. If you are already a fan, you already own this record - and if you don't, buy it now and I'll promise not to tell!