Paradisiac [Import]

Millionaire | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B0009Z5R6I
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #32 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Belgium

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music Most Excellent!, July 11, 2006

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

This review is from: Paradisiac (Audio CD)

Millionaire obviously shares the same love of T. Rex's big, shiny glam rock riffs as Joshua Homme, who produced this album. At times, the vocals sound very similar to Homme's, although there's a bit more variety here. ('Wake Up the Children' actually channels RATM's Zach De La Rocha.) Fans of Queens of the Stone Age (except for those meatheads who only dig Nick Oliveri's Metal-Goblin input) will definitely feel a special connection to this band. The aforementioned T-Rexitudes are very reminiscent of QOTSA's glammier stuff, but Millionaire embraces synthy-techno grooves as well as big guitars, which makes for a most excellent combination...if you can find it, pick up the Japanese version, which is accompanied by a bonus disc. The song 'Starmeat' is AWESOME, well worth the couple of extra bucks you may pay for the import. Buy it, blast it, love it!!!

4.0 out of 5 stars There is a paradise..., May 3, 2006

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Liesje (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paradisiac (Audio CD)

I love their live shows. A lot's of energy going on. My favorite song on this album is "ballad of pure thought"!

5.0 out of 5 stars Queens' Josh Homme is a huge fans (he produced Paradisiac), so is Matthew Bellamy --> Now it's your turn to get blown away, April 10, 2006

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David Lynch (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paradisiac (Audio CD)

Millionaire: one over-the-top fantastic must-see rock'n'roll Band before you die, attend one of their crazy powerful liveshows after getting into their music a bit and you will understand why they blew Josh Homme away... If you don't know them, ckeck out the song "CHAMPAGNE" (and the great video/shortmovie also)

Now on to the record. Paradisiac is a grower, but one of a fantastic kind... More over the top, more kick ass, more punk-edged then their previous eclectic little masterpiece Outside The Simian Flock and more stonerrock... though actually I prefer them even slightly more than The Queens of the Stone Age.

Just Listen to Highlights WE DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE and WAKE UP THE CHILDREN (which sounds to me like a fantastic Rage Against The Machine song, but one gone completely out of control, without degrading itself into a chaos-trashpile), I bet you find yourself wide awake and screaming WAKE UP-the-wake up, wake up THE CHII-HIHIILDREN!!, some minutes later, roaming around the house like frenzy emptying a bottle of Jack Daniels and calling up all your friends to hit the night

And then we have the hauntingly beautiful song BALLAD OF PURE THOUGHT, which proves Tim Vanhamel's skills as a songwriter, which is for me one of the most beautiful songs of 2005

This album will lift you up for 45 glorious minutes with one awesome resting point (Ballad of pure thought), and will smack you down afterwards leaving you crawling on the floor begging for more. Well in that case: one advice, go get their debut Outside the Simian Flock, which is very good too.

For me Paradisiac is in my top 3 albums of 2005, sorry for all the superlatives, but they're worth everysingle one of them...