Subliminal Sandwich

Meat Beat Manifesto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 4, 1996)
• Original Release Date: June 4, 1996
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Interscope Records
• ASIN: B000001Y28
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,155 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sound Innovation

2. Nuclear Bomb

3. Long Periods of Time

4. 1979

5. Future Worlds

6. What's Your Name?

7. She's Unreal

8. Asbestos Lead Asbestos

9. Mass Producing Hate

10. Radio Mellotron

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Mad Bomber/The Woods

2. The Utterer

3. United Nations

4. Stereophrenik

5. Teargas

6. Plexus

7. Electric People

8. Tweekland

9. Simulacra

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Genius . . ., October 26, 2001

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"germ87" (Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Subliminal Sandwich (Audio CD)

When Satyricon came out in 1992, it was a huge underground hit. Satyricon had almost everything a true techno fan wanted: trippy sounds, fast and hard beats, and great lyrics all done by one of the most influential people to ever hit techno, Jack Dangers.

When Dangers grew up in Swindon, England he hated it. He got fired with his family while working in a railway station in an industrial wasteland of a town in England."I spent three years cleaning out toilets," Dangers growls,"I think that would make anyone angry." This led to the creation of the band Meat Beat Manifesto (MBM), when Dangers wanted to protest musically. He released an [EP] called Suck Hard which was an album of very dark tortured feedback and loud distortion. But one of the wonders of MBM is their ability to "evolve". After the release of Satyricon, Dangers disappeared for 4 years when he made a stunning comeback in the summer of 1996, he released Subliminal Sandwich, perhaps the single best album to represent industrial, techno, and a little ambience. This album gives people what almost every other can never achieve. Sprawling across two compact discs, the 140-minute, 28-track epic made up Subliminal Sandwich and repositioned MBM as studio masterminds. Every single one of those songs are spectacular. The songs vary to bass bombed beats, with a futuristic Raggae edge in "Nuclear Bomb", to relaxed whispers, tree rustling, space sounds, and a plethera of lifeforms in "The Woods/Mad Utterer". It also ranges from 1950's scientific laboratories with the wisdom from beyond genius professors in "Radio Mellotron" to a never ending abyss, filled with noise and a heavily dark mood in "Cancer". Truly Remarkable can't even really describe this album. But heed this warning! The album is filled with songs, so you might feel a bit overwhelmed. The package even comes with a warning label: "Important: Play Twice Before Listening." So listen to what Dangers had to say before judging the album to harshly.

"It's a reference to the fact that there's a lot of music on there and you've got to actively listen to it. If you don't, and you write a review of it, you're gonna look like a fool. Someone did recently. They'd obviously just played the first few songs because they said 'there's too much singing on this record.' Which is completely untrue, but there it is in print." Jack Dangers

So after reading this review you should pretty much know what to expect from this album. This is very different from their earlier albums because MBM has "evolved" since then. Upon saying that I give this album my highest recommendation. Thanks. And I hope my review has influenced you to buy this extremely superb album.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Prime Audio Soup, October 28, 2004

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Douche Baggins "Don't Mock It" (A Rift in Reallity) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Subliminal Sandwich (Audio CD)

After 19 years of existence, I have finally decided that my favorite album is "The Best of Roy Orbinson" by Roy Orbinson.Ha!
No seriously, it is Meat Beat Manifesto's acid drenched "Subliminal Sandwich". This CD would've really worked well with the title "Prime Audio Soup", for that is the only way I can describe this CD (well not so much Disc1, but definitly Disc2)
Disc one is absolutly jam packed with 18 songs,every one carving it's own niche in the CD, and not a single one is boring. Each song retains MBM's signature sound, while representing a different side of it. So many subgenres are represented on this album that it is downright daunting to analyze and describe what they all are. Just listen to the samples and you will know what I'm saying. Simply fantastic, absorbing, and oddly emotional.

Somehow, by some weird act of fate, Disc Two absolutly trumps Disc One, and with only 10 songs. This CD is why I'm writting this review in the first place. Each song has an extreme volume of euphoric sound pulsing in-and-out of earshot. How Mr. Dangers
managed to make real audio soup I will never know. I'm just glad that he did in the first place.
To all you pyschonaughts out there (and you know who you are), this CD will suck you into worlds otherwise inconceivable for the sober mind. It sounds like an acid trip, as in how you would hear normal music on acid, without the acid (Get it?Got It?Good!). On acid (or you're
hallucinogen of choice) this CD is utterly absorbing all of the way through, but espescially so on tracks 7 through 10. All in all great while sober (both Cds), but unbelievably fantastic while tripping. Buy it now, so that the CD will not disapeer due to low sales. This masterwork must be preserved.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you buy one "electronic" album here it is..., August 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Subliminal Sandwich (Audio CD)

The Opus Magnum, the Everestial summit, that is MBM's Subliminal Sandwhich. This (double)CD is worth buying at ANY price. It is the synaesthetic mind-body-soul experience that music can and should be, listen, after listen, after listen... Layers, depth, lyrics, groove, production, mental bliss-its all there. This is the one MBM CD you have to have. BUY IT AND YOU WILL NEVER REGRET/FORGET IT.