Dead Inside

Golden Palominos | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 8, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Restless Records
• ASIN: B000003BKX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,890 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cerebral Exposure, December 25, 1999

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desiderata "mogot" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Inside (Audio CD)

We were speeding down the California coast, the awesome full moon pounding down on us. Lisa was behind the wheel. She put a tape in the stereo, "If you don't love this, I will GIVE you my car." A few seconds later I heard the first words of 'Ride'. It unzipped a part of my brain I never knew I had like I was seeing everything for the first time. 'Thirst' echoed a dream I had forgotten about and convinced me to keep a journal by my bed. By the end of the tape I was hooked. There's no going back after Golden Palominos. You can't step in the same river twice.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DEAD INSIDE: An intense soundtrack for unfilmed biographies, July 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dead Inside (Audio CD)

This latest release by the ever-changing Golden Palominos exists in the strange space between dark spoken word performance piece and disturbing ambient/electronic film soundtrack. Think of it as Laurie Anderson's evil twin delivering a wandering travelogue through Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER.

Poet/singer Nicole Blackman's powerful words hold center stage on the disc, enhanced and supported by Anton Fier's percussion and production, and some instrumentation by long time GPers Nicky Skopelitis and Bill Laswell. The end result is a powerful and haunting recording, often painfully intense, which explores the shadowy personal stories of Blackman's vivid characters.

On the down side, this is not a disc for light listening or one that works well as background noise, nor will you find yourself humming its primary melodies later. This is not pop music. Instead, DEAD INSIDE is a much more rarified item than any of the Palominos recordings featuring Lori Carson, and probably much more of a niche disc. It demands attention and consideration, and the results are often not pretty. Still, DEAD INSIDE is near perfection within its own unique sphere.

If you are interested in more experimental recordings, fascinated by 'difficult' listening experiences, or taken by the spoken word, this is a rich and rewarding disc that will echo in your thoughts long after its last notes have faded from your ears.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dark, yes. too dark? i think not.., February 11, 2004

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kedamono (seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Inside (Audio CD)

i bought this cd after reading the lyrics to "holy" and having them stuck in my head for weeks. the album was a million times better than i'd imagined, especially after reading reviews that claimed it was "too dark" and you "wouldnt want to listen to it more than once".
i completely disagree - and to those who say it isn't catchy - i think it is! i am always running around with lines in my head... it may not be melodic, but it is rhythmic and driving and intense.
my best friend was murdered, and "victim" is very difficult for me to listen to, but "holy" is worth the price of the album, "ride" is genius, and "metal eye" is entrancing.. everything on this disc is art.