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Cyborgs Revisited

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This is a great rock album, it's a shame these guys weren't properly supported during their prime. The first 9 tracks are amazing psych-rock, kinda like the Velvet Underground if they teamed up with the Silver Apples, or maybe kinda like Hawkwind playing the Stooges, or Pink Floyd playing the Troggs, or.....you get the idea. Catchy melodies and chord structures amongst fast and intense guitar freakouts and frantic bubbling analog electronic noises. "Bullet Proof Nothing" could've been a hit, and "Illegal Bodies" and "Nazi Apocalypse" feature wild freakouts at their best. A perfect cocktail of experimental electronic psychedelia with gritty, noisy proto-punk. The bonus tracks show the band after they started to lose steam, playing more pop-oriented punk that's less mind-expanding but not bad. If you ever wondered what really early Syd-era Pink Floyd would've turned out to be after jamming with the Velvets (a-ha, I think i've got the comparison pretty close!) be sure to check this one out!

Let me first say I am 22. I had the fortune of seeing Edgar Breau live about 2 weeks before Cyborgs Revisited was re-released. I had NO idea who Simply Saucer was or that he was the singer/main songwriter from them. I enjoyed his set but there were a couple of songs that blew me away. After he was done I told him that I thought his set was really good but that their was one song that just rattled my brain. We talked for a minute or two and that was that. Now I just purchased Cyborgs Revisited about 24 hours ago. It has blown my mind again and again. I have never heard anyone EVER play guitar like the solos in the first three songs. just amazing. the song that blew me away was "Nazi Apocalypce" by the way. So yes after the rambling I highly suggest anyone into anykind of experimental music be it noise or speed just check it out. This might be the CD that sets your head on fire.

You take ideas, you combine them with other ideas and they evolve. Simply Saucer is the logical evolution of late sixties/early seventies ideas, even better it pre-dates punk so they can mix frenzied guitar driven machine music with twisted psychedelics and weird sounds without being self-conscious about it. They rock like the Stones/Chocolate Watchband, freakout like the Stooges/Velvets and basically do everything a good band should. It might be nearly 30 years since the material was recorded it's a new record because you never heard it before.
The result of all this sounds great, no excuses, take nothing into consideration, even the recording quality is pretty good.
Buy it, you won't feel cheated, play it and you'll enjoy it.

While the band is obscure, nothing about the music is hard to get into. The songs date to the mid 1970's, but you might never guess that if you listened to it "blind". In some ways is sounds like really good 60's garage band music, but then it also has Stooges-like proto punk energy, and Hendrix-inspired guitar freak-outs. But since it puts all these elements together, it takes on a timeless quality, and almost sounds like it could have been first recorded today (or tomorrow......)

Simply Saucer are pretty much unknown, and not to say that they should've been superstars, but they should get some recognition. This cd contains some good psychedelic music and even a few songs that could be considered punk. Mole Machine was the standout track for me. This instrumental is what I think psychedelic music should sound like at it's very best. Buy it if you like obscure garage rock.

This is one album I can listen to over and over and over again- beaufiful, far-out psyche-punk! It gets to the bone of it and twists it around in a million different shapes without breaking it. "Illegal Bodies" is possibly the best jam this side of "Sister Ray","Brainstorm" and "Interstellar Overdrive". The hype of course says something similiar to what I just laid down, but it's true.

BEST CANADIAN BAND EVER! Not even Voivod comes this close...

This is a wonderful gem from the late 70's. Simply Saucer hail from Canada. Their blend of Velvet Underground influenced 70's punk/psych is mermorizing and hip shaking. Lots of cool guitar effects and old school style production make this an analog lovers dream. Don't miss this album...

If you like Velvets-Stooges stuff, Eno/early Roxy Music, Syd-era Floyd, then you will like this. I can't recommend it highly enough. Every song kills. Imagine if you took the rhythms of White Light/White Heat and "The Velvet Underground" era VU and combined it with with the guitar skronk of "Fun House" era Stooges, threw in a little "Piper At The Gates of Dawn" Pink Floyd and some Eno-influenced electronic noise, but with the sensibility of a psychedelic garage band, you would come up with something similar to this.

If you can't find it, hunt around some more. Luckily, Sonic Unyon Records is supposed to re-release this CD in March 2003 or thereabouts, possibly with some extra tracks, so take heart.

Yo. This album is hot.

They drop bombs and don't mess around.

I can't believe more popel have not heard of this.

When you want a band that just rips it up nice...

Simply Saucer.

It's the mad sweet old just ripping and going for it.

No one wants to do that anymore...

Well...Simply Saucer did.

Buy it.

I bought this on a lark, after reading a few reviews(Pitchfork, etc.) It was being hailed as the "greatest canadian rock-record" of all time, or something. With this I disagree, but if you can look beyond that impossible to live up to tagline(Bryan Adams, anyone!) then you will certainly enjoy this disc. Velvet Underground meets the Stooges in an analog space-rock kinda thing. The songs start off with great, quirky pop then stretch out into creative jams that aren't HIPPYISH in the least(maybe a little acid, but who's counting). For one of those great "lost" classics it lives up to it's praise aside from some bits with poor sound.