State of the Union

Queen Esther, State Of The Union | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atavistic Records
• ASIN: B000001B77
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,706 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Covalence

2. The Traveler

3. Prolongate

4. Through a Tube

5. Why I Don't Like Wyoming

6. Kitsch

7. Hogwash

8. Subsector a

9. Rude Awakening, Pt. 2

10. Sin Capish

See all 63 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Polynation

2. Red Light

3. Vom Gewissen

4. Life Saver

5. Bane of Black Ink

6. Always Broke

7. Status Extremis

8. American Society Thus

9. Cordless Phones Are a Bummer (For Poor People in the Third World)

10. Shit

See all 72 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A conceptual cross trench dug through the sonic environment of today, December 5, 2008

By 

Bill Schaeffer (Venice, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: State of the Union (Audio CD)

146 artists on two CD's. Each one gets sixty seconds of time to fill with their own audio creation.

The result is an awesome collection of found noises, field recordings, mutant garage bands, industrial noise, social commentary, sonic experiments, and some of the most interesting music you have heard in a long time.

The collection digs a conceptual cross trench through the sonic environment of today and distills the results into 146 minute long jewels of unpredictability and misdirected genius.

Listen to it on random shuffle and the non-sequitir fun never stops -- it just "keeps on giving." You will never hear music the same again.

Put a CD on at a party and see what happens. Buy a few extra copies of this CD and give them to strangers and miscreants.