Don't Blow Your Cover: Tribute to Kmfdm

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 3, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 3, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B00004VWBC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #484,818 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good!, January 7, 2002

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who-cares (United Empire of America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Blow Your Cover: Tribute to Kmfdm (Audio CD)

I think most KMFDM fans will definitely get a kick out of Don't Blow Your Cover. Mostly it's pretty good, except for Virus and Money. But for a bunch of groups I've never heard before, they actually do a good job.

I'm trying to collect every mix of Light, so I had to get this CD. Guenter Schulz's mix of Light is the best since the Aerobic Dub by Excessive Force, which was from the Light single in 1994.

Overall it's very much worth it. A few of the songs actually sound better than the originals, like Don't Blow Your Top and Spiritual House-- they are given a cool nineties-sounding overhaul.

2.0 out of 5 stars Sounds nothing like KMFDM, May 31, 2011

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Zomnificent (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Don't Blow Your Cover: Tribute to Kmfdm (Audio CD)

Tribute albums have earned a generally warranted bad reputation, and this one, while slightly better than the average, still pretty much blows. A lot of the songs sound nothing like KMFDM, so they aren't really remixes or covers. They're different songs with KMFDM lyrics in them. This would be an album I would only recommend for someone who wants everything with the letters KMFDM on it.

Plus side: "Disobedience" - Raymond Watts turns that song into a jazzy lounge song like "Angel" from Praise The Lard.

Die Krupps' remix/cover of "Power" is cool.

The cover of "A Drug Against War" by Razed In Black is pretty good.

The horror, the horror: The disgusting remix of "Juke Joint Jezebel." It's an atrocity!

"Sex On A Flag" by Interfaith vs. Rick Sitter...I think you "blew your cover" if you can't even get the title right.

4.0 out of 5 stars Reiteration, December 31, 2009

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G. Dodge "gadiv" (Central VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stray Bullet: A Tribute To Kmfdm (MP3 Download)

This compilation was previously released by Cleopatra as Don't Blow Your Cover in 2000.

Stand out tracks include Disobedience and Light (both performed by KMFDM alumni), Power is a solid jam by the Die Krupps crew with [...], Rosetta Stone's cover of Vogue is simply epic, exquisitely full and subtly nuanced, Spahn Ranch's working of Don't Blow Your Top earns them still more points in my esteem, and Shirley Dayton rounds off the high point tracks with a valiant working of Spiritual House, which is already an especially odd song with that Wind-Up Bunny Rabbits bit.

Unfortunately, a few of the bands featured did blow their chance at performing a great KMFDM cover. Sheep on Drugs cannot seem to do anything right, ever, and they turn Money into a carousel of repetitive, ritalin-infused techno that only manages to be some form of auditory vertigo - the sound has actually made me dizzy before, it is so redundant. Razed in Black's Romell shows us again that his voice only has one setting, ever, and he even drops his own stage name in A Drug Against War, with spectacularly obnoxious results. Then there is Virus and ... probably another track or two, I can't recall off-hand - I mean, I could look them up, but why bother?

It's a pretty solid half-and-half compilation, like Cleopatra was famous for putting out for the past ten or so years. Half is pretty great, half is pretty crap.