Pure Acid Park

Alice Donut | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 21, 1995)
• Original Release Date: July 25, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Alternative Tentacles
• ASIN: B000000FAI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,409 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not my fave, but still worth it., April 27, 2001

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Ken (Youngsville, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pure Acid Park (Audio CD)

For even really weird bands can surprise everyone with a really weird album. I didn't expect this from them, to say the least. A banjo? Well, I wouldn't have put it past them. For the relatively few people who HAVE heard of them, Alice Donut always leaves a psychedelic mark. I don't know how to describe them - other than "The Pixies on acid," perhaps. This trippy critter, especially with "Pure Acid Park," threw conventional rock in the can and had a heck of a lot of fun doing it. There's a bit more melody and smoothness to these tunes compared to their other releases. They obviously toned down the quirkiness to put a little more focus on rock-anthem-ness, but with lyrics that you'd probably feel silly making anthems out of... and that is the genius of Alice Donut at work. Far from being my favorite Donut record, this is still good, nonetheless. When rock-n-roll gets boring, put on "Pure Acid Park" to rock out and wobble yourself dizzy. After this CD and an obscure split EP, the Donut was unfortunately silenced, so "Pure Acid Park" is the full-length farewell to an unsuspecting world. Sadly, Alice doesn't live here anymore.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than before..., June 11, 2002

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Richard Thomas (washington, dc) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pure Acid Park (Audio CD)

Alice Donut was one of the core bands of Alternative Tentacles back in the late '80s and early '90s. Musically, Donut's style has much in common with the psychedlic punk style of the... Surfers, but I regard Donut as being the more straight-up fun-to-listen-to of the two. The Surfers are great, but in a different way. Alice Donut's work is better informed by a sense of humor and a lively attitude than the Surfers, who usually come off as being much darker and more serious. However, this does not mean that Alice Donut does not pack some weight - in keeping with many Alternative Tentacles bands, Alice Donut follows in the footsteps of the Dead Kennedies with thier lyrics - heavy sarcasm, but always socially and politically relevant.

Shortly after "Mule" (the last 4 star plus album by this band), they kicked bass player and second vocalist Ted Houghton out of the band. He was succeeded (but NOT replaced by any stretch of the imagination) by Sissi. After this line-up switch, Donut took a turn into a much darker, more metal-oriented style. They almost became a different band after this point, so check out what was the last of their really good albums!

In this album, the band loses the metal sound. It's more melodic, and in that sense more pyschedelic in the classic sense. It lives up to its name "Pure Acid Park." One wishes that Donut had started doing this stuff with their fourth or fifth album, rather than waiting until their swan song. While not as good as their early material,...

All said, better late than never.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars First timers, buy other Alice Donut albums before this one, September 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pure Acid Park (Audio CD)

Do not get me wrong, this is a very good album, only compared to "Revenge", "Mule", "Buckefuls", and "Untidy"(and even "Donut Comes Alive") this album has to be considered the worst. When you listen to the Alice Donut albums in the order that they came out, you can see the changes in music style that they make on each.(Not one album sounds like another, except "Pure Acid Park". With this album, I found myself thinking that Alternative Tentacles collected all of the leftover tracks that were not good enough for "Untidy" and put them on a cd to sell. Still, overall, it is a descent album and after hearing the other Alice Donut albums, you will become a Alice Donut fan and have to buy this cd as I did.(I remember being so exciting when it was first released and extremely disappointed after listening to it.) Still, it is digestable.