Complete Radio One Sessions (BBC) [LIVE]

Napalm Death

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00004U022
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #283,622 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Napalm Death - 'Complete Radio On Sessions,BBC' (Varese), June 21, 2006

By	Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Personally,I liked their 'Bootlegged In Japan' CD better(see my review).But don't get me wrong,if you're a long-time Napalm fan,then you should get a lot from this sixteen track BBC compilation.If anything,it features a great song selection/mix of material from the band's entire back catalog.Just good grindcore for thrashers to thoroughly enjoy. Few of the cuts that I took a liking to were "The Kill / Prison Without Walls", "Moral Crusade / Worlds Apart" and "From Enslavement To Obliteration". A decent pick.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incongruous but essential collection of BBC recordings, February 15, 2004

By	Jeremy Ulrey "Bangyrmfhead" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

Already released once as "The Peel Sessions", four more tracks recorded in 1996 for the BBC Friday Rock Show have been tacked on as an added enticement. The primary raison d'etre of this package seems to be to give American fans a chance to pick up this material; the "Peel" disc was in fact an import, and even at it's moderate price was scarce in the US. That being said, there's little incentive for owners of that CD to pick up this new release. The artwork is as atrocious as that on it's foreign counterpart, and the vocals on the songs from '96 are mixed way back in the cheap seats. But fans discovering these versions for the first time will find a wealth of rage and hostility greeting them in the ultra-brief, ultra-violent forays into the band's early material.

For those unfamiliar with the John Peel program, guests on the show are given four hours of studio time to lay down takes of however many songs they can manage in that time period. These restrictions don't allow the bands the luxury of editing or post-producing the output, so basically it's set the knobs on the control board and let `er rip. What comes out is a jaw dropping maelstrom of malcontent, rendered in brief, concentrated bursts (the echo following Napalm's performance of "You Suffer Part 2" actually lasts about four times longer than the song itself). Aside from the last four tracks, everything else is from those first three pre-death metal grindcore albums, resembling a musical train wreck witnessed from an uncomfortably close position. Napalm Death have now moved on to greener pastures while preserving their integrity, but "The Complete Radio One Session" reminds us of the energetic fury which once came ripping from a nation's loudspeakers, and on public radio, no less. Only in Jolly Old England.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the history of Napalm Death, May 7, 2001

By	"joe431" (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

if you've never heard Napalm Death and must own one Napalm Death cd then this is it! it covers everything from the chaotic noise blasts of the past (you suffer) to the more death metal sound of present (greed killing). a definitive collection. also pick up Carcass-symphonies of sickness these two discs rarely leave my cd player.