Need Is Dead

The Need | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chainsaw Records
• ASIN: B000044U48
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,361 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Circuit Side

2. 2-Story Girl

3. Blew Candy

4. Vaselina

5. Dear Diary

6. Eva Carriere

7. O Sally How's It Feel With A Fake Hand?

8. Dark Sally: I. Conjuration Against The 7 Liars-In-Wait/II. Sally Iscariot/III. Overture Un Nombre...

9. Hellfire

10. Mona Tinsley

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Incredible, December 19, 2000

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"pandoris" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Need Is Dead (Audio CD)

Rachel is a genius. She makes extremely difficult and complex drum combonations sound easy and flawless. I first saw The Need at Ladyfest in August 2000, and I was so blown away by the caliber of their performance that I was convinced none of their recorded material could sound as good as their live stuff. I was wrong. The Need is Dead is perhaps one of the most complexly genius (and disturbingly weird) albums I have ever heard. It has a beauty and originality that I have never heard from any other recording artists. My particular favorites are "Vaselina," "Dear Diary," and "Eva Carriere." I cannot recommend this album enough--but only to those who are open-minded enough to be into an album EXPERIENCE.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yeah just ignore the guy below, this record is genius, January 22, 2003

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"ry4nbook3r" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Need Is Dead (Audio CD)

This is to second the opinion that the guy who called this record "annoying lesbo rock" is wayyyyyyyyy off base. Given that he compares it to Bratmobile and Huggy Bear, I kind of doubt he's ever even bothered to listen to it. Come on, I mean, "I picture fat raver girls and skinny pants-wearing boys dancing to this at Sarah Lawrence?" Yeah, way to stick it to 1991, dude.
No, this record has nothing to do with the bland, bouncy shreik-rock of early-90s riot grrrl. It's instead a sci-fi opera, performed by Joan Jett and Suzi Quatro, with Black Sabbath and a chorus of martians in the orchestra pit. Churning metal riffs, 1950s horror movie soundtracks, and bad-girl rock posturing are replete, somehow blended into a cohesive, jaw-dropping masterpiece. Uncategorizably weird, yes, but undoubtedly brilliant.
Sadly, though, The Need is Dead has been, for all practical purposes, completely overlooked by just about everyone. And meanwhile, stuff that cops the same (wo)man-machine, dark-future vibe, but has none of the Need's extraordinary creativity - Tracy and the Plastics and Crack:WAR come to mind here - gets hailed as genius.
So, if you've somehow come across this page, seriously, ignore the dude below, and buy the record. Play it for your friends and see them instantly toss their CDs by Chicks on Speed, or whatever unimaginative dreck has the title of "Queens of Art-school-girl-rock" at the moment. The Need really are dead now, unfortunately (as a band, not as people - don't get freaked out), but, hopefully, somewhere out there, their legacy of inspired strangeness lives on.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What to think...., March 3, 2000

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Music lover (Los angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Need Is Dead (Audio CD)

Geez, here I am ready to shake my booty into oblivion like I did when I listened to their first cd and they make me sit down and listen. This isn't your next dance record. Workers toiling in hell is what comes to mind, with radio's guitar doing the leading. Beautiful.