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Exploding Plastic Pleasure

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This album is excellent. I first found out about it in a Billboard Magazine's album review section. My favorite tracks are "Fly With Me", "Uncontrollable Love", and "You Don't Love Me", but I have to really say I enjoy all the songs a lot. The guys in the band have really cool voices, and it's really cool that they have star guests like Lydia Lunch and Deborah Harry doing songs with them on the album too. Very cool. I highly recommend this album.

Once I learned of Deborah Harry's contribution on Blow-Up's CD, I HAD to get it. Not only is Harry's track outstanding, but I enjoyed the rest of the CD as well. Blow-Up has distilled all the elements of '80s dance and repackaged it for the millenium. It's like Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk and Mirwais Ahmadzai spent the weeknend together and "Exploding Plastic Pleasure" is the result. "Can't Make Me Do That," "(I Was a) Male Stripper," and "You Don't Love..." are all infectious tunes. The CDs moneyshot, though, is Harry's "Uncontrollable Love." It's without a doubt one of Harry's best dance songs, sounding like a hybrid of Grace Jones' "I'm Not Perfect" and Harry's own "In Love with Love." While some of the tracks on this CD have somewhat sparse production, "Uncontrollable Love" is richly layered with a forceful beat holding it together. A remix of the song is featured on the final track, adding a few more of Harry's seductive and ethereal "ah-ahs" and upping the tempo (I'm partial to the original version, though). Lydia Lunch's saucy "On the Prowl" is fun, though the accompanying synthesizer is so cheesy it should be served with pepperoni. Blow-Up's one misstep is its re-make of Human League's "Don't You Want Me." Sounding as if it were recorded by Falco before he dropped dead and re-mixed by someone with ADD (complete with squeaky Casio flourishes), Blow-Up's version only makes you wish they quit while they were ahead.

This cd was released to most countries on the EMI label but for the US market on the smaller Electrovenus Records. The mastermind behind the cd is Paolo Cillone & Claudio Camaione and they do a fine job of making this a killer collection. The main reason for my buying this cd was the track "Uncontrollable Love" with featured vocals by GOD herself Ms. Deborah Harry. The track which comes in the original and even better FR/Action Remix (5:34) are what Daft Punk would kill to be making. Debbie kicks ... as usual. Then you get the very sexual track "On The Prowl" that features raunch queen Lydia Lunch. Plus you get a weird remake of "Don't You Want Me","Nacht Des Leguans" which a tribute to Iggy Pop,the gay themed "Fly With Me","Go With a Bang" ,"Hurt Me" and "You Can't Make Me Do That" which was written by the late Dee Dee Ramone as killer tracks. The cover of this cd is bound to get attention but hopefully so will the music. BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!!

WOW, i'm exploding with pleasure after my first listen to the blow-up album. the songs are really fun with interesting innovative rhythms and great lyrics (and what a cover!).
if your looking for a new cool electro lp...GO PLASTIC!

I'm so happy I got this album and I can't stop playing it.
It's a great album you can dance to or drive fast when in your car, on the prowl, pumping it loud. I love every songs. thank you blow-up.

I went to see the Blondie and Blow-Up show here in Seattle at the Music Box theatre. Blow-Up opened the show with an amazing Dj set, something that I never heard before. A mix of different styles smashing up the dance floor with an incredible intensity. They played a lot of songs from their album (that I bought a month ago) and they announced remixes that they have done including the fantastic Love Profusion by Madonna, an upcoming Yoko Ono track & the new Blondie song Good Boys. The remixes are so amazing. After their set I went to talk to them and they were great (and cute).
UP UP UP.

I haven't heard of Blow-Up before I got my Flaming Lips "Ego Tripping at the Gate of Hell ep". I liked what they have done to it and soon after I bought the Blow-Up "Eploding Plastic Pleasure" lp. Good songs and production. I think they have great potential.

I saw this cd while shopping for something else and i saw the rave reviews it got from other customers as well as editorial pieces. Blow up has just remixed Madonna's "Love Profusion" which I own and its brilliant! So I purchased their(blow-up) cd also because of the Debbie Harry track. This cd has put me in a good mood since i got it. The only way I can describe this disc is it's very accessible euro disco pop new wave via hardcore cutting edge electronica.If you love Debbie Harry you will flip for both versions of Uncontrollable Love. Get it now you won't regret it!

IT is interesting to see the fall out from the electroclash movement. The good thing is that people are getting over the joke/novelty aspect of it.

This leaves room for bands like Exploding Plastic Pleasure, who are not electroclash but should benefit from the more open mind feeling about edgy electronic dance pop.

Yeah, in the end this is "just" club music, but done very well and with originality. The Deborah Harry track is by the best cut and the Fr/action remix ROCKS! (hehehehe).

One of the better dance music albums I have heard in 2003. Cutting edge but accessible.