Killing Time

Massacre | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Celluloid Records
• ASIN: B00000DQJG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #601,322 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Edition, September 20, 2007

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Robert Carlberg (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Killing Time (Audio CD)

This Fred Records edition of the classic 1981 "Killing Time" album is the one to get -- the sonics are the best these admittedly scrotty tracks have ever sounded. It includes all six bonus tracks from the RecRec 1993 re-issue, plus an additional two 1981 live tracks, for a total of almost 64 minutes. Add to that, Fred tells us in the liners, "at the correct speed and pitch and without added reverb" for the first time.

Musically, I probably don't need to tell you this is the epitome, possibly the apex of the Downtown NYC sound of the 1980s -- raw, wicked, uncompromising and unapologetic. Grapple with it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Laswell's early genius!, December 13, 1999

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Peter Stenbaek (Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Killing Time (Audio CD)

This album is one of the finest 80'ies-avantgarde-rock recordings at all! Funky, elegant and full of an intellectual and artistic flavour. You can really feel the creative and sometimes very humourus way both bass, guitar and drums are treated. It is also a relatively early Bill Lasweel production, and seriously, I don't think he has done any better bassplaying than here! Remember Laswell has produced more than 50 albums, (Herbie Hancock, Material etc.), and here you find his characteristic style in a young and unspoiled version. I highly recommend this album for all 1980-culture feinschmeckers!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Power PUNK Prog!, November 5, 2003

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Carl Johnson "budbear_5000" (Detroit, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Killing Time (Audio CD)

Killing Time is an absolute power prog masterpiece of writing and playing! It is interesting in that some people call this punk and some progressive. It is complex, musical mastery with exceptional musicians with prog backgrounds. It is interesting to me as well that the sheer anger and fury with which this record was made is right in keeping with the energy of the punk-rock movement of that time... but nobody is breaking their instruments here (smile)! Contrast in to Playbak80 by Daevid Allen. Dark complex and forboding. Excellent spin!