Day of the Robot

Buckethead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 1996)
• Original Release Date: April 30, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sub Meta
• ASIN: B000003S49
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,030 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Destroyer: Speed Flux Quadrant/Inclusion/Exhaust Release

2. Flying Guillotine

3. Quantum Crash

4. Collision

5. Caution Drop

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Zip-a-chakkachak., January 22, 2002

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Lord Chimp (Monkey World) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Day of the Robot (Audio CD)

Although this album is about 45 minutes long, The Day of the Robot feels like it's over in about 25 minutes. I'm not sure whether this is good or bad. I don't like long songs to _feel_ long (and the song lengths here range from 8 minutes to 13 minutes or so). On the other hand, sometimes Day of the Robot is so unassuming that if you don't pay attention it seems to go by without much impact.

It was only after a few listens that I even _noticed_ the good riffs and the nifty programming. The Day of the Robot is, for the most part, a lot less "in your face" than Buckethead's more audacious records like Giant Robot or Monsters & Robots. This album's songs are long, dark, and ambient, relying on liquidy techno rhythms as much as Buckethead's crashing riffs and breakneck solos. There are sections on the first song where the droning guitar riffs sound like little more than white noise. For these reasons, it is more along the lines of "techno-metal" than the actual rock/metal/funk/stuff of the other albums I mentioned. Fortunately, the songs cover lots of ground -- sliding between smashing metal riffs, slap bass solos, long passages of electronic bleeps & blips, and even whirling piano solos - and are still enjoyable. Lots of fun music, as to be expected from Buckethead, but some of is uncharacteristically inconspicuous.

I don't want to sound like I'm being too hard on this strange Buckethead album. It's pretty enjoyable, but its positive aspects are difficult to put into words. I guess it's just inexpressible fun.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Psychotic Improv Guitar meets Dizzy Jungle Beats, April 21, 1997

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This review is from: Day of the Robot (Audio CD)

An audio CD by enigmatic guitarist Buckethead. A bold attempt at fusing screaming metallic guitar playing with "drum and bass" programming by a British DJ known as DJ Ninj. Massive grooves, distinctive playing with washes of cascading ambient drones. It makes for an interesting listening. END

5.0 out of 5 stars great album, for 9$ or 139.99, March 27, 2009

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L - See all my reviews

This review is from: Day of the Robot (Audio CD)

this is classic bucket, i like that its on his heavy side. and as always, with the exeption of bucketheadland one, this is still availible at tdrs music, ran by the great travis dickerson, bucketheads longtime keyboardist and producer, i just got the mp3 album today for 9$ i do understand certian albums long out of print being sold so pricy, but here you could buy the album from the people who made it, and thats what it should be about!
travis webstore is awesome, with many other artist including bill laswell, mp3s are avaible instantly, and he also ships very very fast;