Let Sleeping Corpses Lie [Box set, Original recording remastered, Explicit Lyrics]

White Zombie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Box set, Original recording remastered, Explicit Lyrics
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B001H5HWTE
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,218 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. GENTLEMAN JUNKIE

2. KING OF SOULS

3. TALES FROM THE SCARECROWMAN

4. CAT'S EYE RESURRECTION

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. RATMOUTH

2. SHACK OF HATE

3. DROWNING THE COLOSSUS

4. CROW III

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. GOD OF THUNDER

2. LOVE RAZOR

3. DISASTER BLASTER 2

4. WELCOME TO PLANET MF

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE

2. FEED THE GODS

3. ELECTRIC HEAD - PT. I

4. SUPER CHARGER HEAVEN

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 5

1. THUNDER KISS '65

2. BLACK SUNSHINE

3. WELCOME TO PLANET MOTHERFUCKER

4. FEED THE GODS

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing., November 26, 2008

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M. Behzadi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Audio CD)

Preface: I am a HUGE White Zombie fan, and have been looking forward to this box set for years. As far as the quality of the music contained herein, this set gets a 5 out of 5.

1. Omissions. The set contains no remixes, which is neither surprising nor disappointing, since White Zombie's remixes were done by outside personel and, quite honestly, were never as good as the original recordings. Strangely, though, "Black Friday" and "Dead or Alive" are omitted from this set (maybe because they were only on the cassette version of "Gods on Voodoo Moon"?). Songs like "Star Slammer" which were previously recorded but never before released are also AWOL on the box set. What a shame.

2. Redundancy. La Sexorcisto and Astro Creep are contained, in their entirety, on Discs 3 and 4 (respectively). Anyone who's a big enough White Zombie fan to shell out this kind of money for the box set already has the two albums, both of which are owned by millions of fans across the world. Rob knows this, but included them anyway. Why? So he could justify a higher price tag? I feel like a moron for paying for something I already own.

3. Aesthetics. The packaging is very, very disappointing. Back in the day, Geffen declined to front the money to give Astro Creep the kind of elaborate booklet that Rob wanted. So, what did he do? He spent a big chunk of change out of his own pocket to give the album the kind of treatment it deserved. Sadly, Rob seems to have gotten miserly in his old age. The set's packaging is in the form of a compressed fold-out digipack. The booklet (which is in the form of a standard CD booklet, not an actual book, as I had hoped) is uninteresting and offers neither liner notes nor lyrics. This really caught me by surprised, as this is what usually makes box sets distinct from the rest of a band's catalogue. Rob really didn't come through on this.

In summary:
1. It's incomplete.
2. It has stuff you already have.
3. It doesn't look as nice as it could have.
BUT!
4. The music is great, and the quality of all the old pre-Sexorcisto tracks has been cleaned up a little bit.

Oh, and the DVD is good too, although the videos for Boogieman and One curiously omit clips from the films in which they were featured (licensing issues, perhaps?).

All in all, the good outweighs the bad. Buy it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing considering it's restrictions, December 13, 2008

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Morgan Harvey "Kelicon" (Poughkeepsie, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Audio CD)

This box set is the grand finale for everything White Zombie. Overall I'm very pleased. Granted there isn't much along the road of extras, but White Zombie is a band that makes music and that's what you get... the music. Considering the restraints Rob Zombie had while making this, no communication with the rest of the band and little time, I thought it was an exceptional effort. For those who are complaining about the included material this article, http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/rob_zombie_i_find_it_distracting_to_hear_my_own_music.html , should explain much. All in all, a great effort from Rob Zombie and an amazing buy for White Zombie fans.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Look i know the Supernatural is something that isn't supposed to happen, but it does happen!!!., March 24, 2009

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Puzzle box "smockey_421" (Kuwait) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Audio CD)

You're probably thinking whether the White Zombie boxset is really worth getting or not. Well I'll tell you right now that it's definitely worth it, you get 4 discs of music including a couple of rare songs like the Sabbath cover Children of the Grave and Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks & Cannibal Girls which are both sound fantastic. And you also get a completely awesome DVD containing all their music videos (the one on the past, present and future CD had a few missing videos for some reason) and some great live footage which includes the show at Donnington 95. For many fans this box-set was long overdue. White Zombie were for me one of the greatest bands the early 90's metal scene and their break up shortly after releasing Astro-Creep 2000 and the remix CD made me wonder if anyone could fill that void. It was a real shame when that happened cause I really wanted to see where they were going to head off to next but unfortunately it didn't happen. There is no doubt that Astro-Creep 2000 was an undisputed classic 90's industrial metal album with songs like Electric Head pt.1, More Human Than Human, Supercharger Heaven and Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama.

This set comprises all Studio recordings, including the Soul Crusher & Make Them All Die Slowly albums that have been very difficult to track down for those of us without unlimited funds, so its great to have them all complied here together. I'll be honest some of the earlier stuff before they became a mainstream industrial metal group was kind of bad and slightly dodgy, Make Them Die was pretty good though despite the low production (Disaster Blaster being the highlight). I usually like to read about the band and most other box sets I own all have a biography or the bands history, some of these are fantastic and talk about studio sessions for each album, such as the Sabbath Black Box and you get a real insight into what made the band tick and learn more about these talented and amazing bands. Although Let Sleeping Corpses Lie does have a booklet, its just full of sepia tone photos and little else other than a track listing, which I was a little disappointed with. Still all things considered though, this is still a fantastic set and well worth the money, check it out if you're a die hard White/Rob Zombie fan.