Diamonds & Daggerz

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0006213QC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,694 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Daisy Lou is right.....it kicks a respectable amount of ass., November 5, 2004

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DeEmVe (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diamonds & Daggerz (Audio CD)

This is a pretty damn good industrial/glam/dance/rock cd. While it doesn't pack the full blown punch of 100% new material, it still is new music. I mean, I'm sorry but track nine, "Young Tongue" kicks ass. All too often when a group has been around for ten years plus and had many releases (which is no small feat), almost any new release is railed upon with criticism from fans in year ten that want music just like in year one. The problem is bands must evolve to survive. If they don't change they become boring and very early on get labelled as talentless one trick ponies. So, it's fine if you don't like the directions a band goes but lots of people like early TKK just as much as recent TKK. So, if you're one of the former, it's not that you're a die hard fan and TKK is letting you down and it isn't *really* My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult anymore. Fans of only old material don't possess the true identity of a band, the notion is absurd. The truth of the matter is TKK is TKK and you're just not a fan anymore. It's evolution at work. For those of you waving a fond farewell while clasping your Wax Trax copies of "I See Good Spirits..." there are new fans arriving. A number of my friends who haven't cared much about TKK love this CD and bought it after I played it for them. Besides, its a given that if they produced a new CD with an older, more familiar style tons of people would just bitch that they were falling back on their old sounds and being lazy and not trying to come up with anything new. It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't arrangement with fans. This disc uses old to make new. The sense of entitlement fans tend to feel amazes me. If you like a band's cd you like it and if you don't you don't but the band doesn't *owe* you anything. Make no mistake I am not saying you're wrong if you don't like this disc and I am right because I do, nothing of the sort. I'm saying don't wait for the next "Sexplosion!" because it already happened .

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Dirty Fun!, November 3, 2005

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Crashy88 "crashy88" (Level 2) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diamonds & Daggerz (Audio CD)

I've been a Kult follower from the beginning, and I love this album! They've taken some of their best-loved samples and hooks (most from the "Sexplosion" era, although actually spanning pretty much the whole saga) and reworked them into something just as good: a sleazy, disco soundtrack for a joyride to Hell! True, there's a little more sex and a little less Devil and drugs in this mixture, but who's complaining? Longtime fans wil love it, but so will neophytes--it's a great soundtrack for parties, and there's something for everyone. Note: since some reviewers seem unclear on the concept of the sound collages at the beginning and end of the CD: those are the intro and the outro. They're not songs, they don't care if you "like" them or not, they're just to set the mood... In-between is pure Kult mayhem: enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One-of-a-kind project, April 16, 2007

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VertigoXpress (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diamonds & Daggerz (Audio CD)

"Diamonds & Daggerz" is an interesting prospect; it's impossible to really say what it is. It's not exactly an album of original material, and yet it's not just a remix album, either. Each of the tracks incorporates elements from the best of TKK into entirely new 'songs'. Best listened to as a full-length release from start to finish, each of the tracks builds and builds in a non-stop megamix that covers all of TKK's style, moving from groovy lounge disco through giddy go-go and finishing with full-on aggressive stomp. The early tracks like "Devil Rider" and "Mz Disco" sample elements from more laid back tracks like "Blue Buddha" and "Mindcage"; the middle section of the album echoes "Hit & Run Holiday"; the final segment of the album gets darker until it climaxes in an orgasmic finale of "Dope Kult", which blends "Devil Does", "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan", and "Kooler than Jesus". TKK is probably the only band that could do this kind of a project; I can't imagine anybody else having the right material for it. Typically great artwork, too.