Technical Difficulties

Training For Utopia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Solid State Records
• ASIN: B0001XALIW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,840 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy end to the late, great, TFU., May 7, 2004

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Ron Marcinski "Ron Marcinski" (Americus, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Technical Difficulties (Audio CD)

TFU was one of the greatest bands to ever grace the Solid State label. This CD is a fitting testimony to them. I would still have to recommend the whole Plastic Soul Impalement album over this CD, but for those of us who weren't lucky enough to obtain some of their rarer material (like the alternate version of "One Zero One"), it is a nice way to go. If you own both "Plastic Soul Impalement", and "Throwing a Wrench into the American Music Machine" then all you need is this one album to own every song they released. The whole "Falling Cycle LP" is on this CD. I personaly prefer the full version of "Pretty Picture of Lies" more than I do the original, but the original's inclusion on this album makes since. I've never cared for the song "Tennessee Midget" and would have preferred the inclusion of "Seeing-Eye Fruit Bat" or "The Art of Killing a Copying Machine" over it. The songs are well mixed through out the CD, but the CD seems a little rough; due to the differences in quality (and style) between their albums. Still... this is one greatest hits album that I'm sure I'll enjoy for a long time.

As a side note, the Clark brothers (the brains behind TFU) now have a band called Demon Hunter. DH is a metal band (a little softer than Living Sacrifice), and as much as I love their music, I still think Plasic Soul Impalement is the greatest album that the Clarks have released, and, in my opinion, one of the greatest albums of all time.

5.0 out of 5 stars 50,000 Thousand People Need To Scream This Album ROCKS!!, July 7, 2004

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Metal Man (Indy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Technical Difficulties (Audio CD)

THIS ALBUM BY TFU ROCKS!!!! TFU has been out of the making cds process for 5 years now and when I saw this album coming out in April I was thirlled! An awesome mix of songs all through out the cd. Theres one song I missed not hearing was White Boys Burden I love that song! But this just Rocks start to finish and If you want rough, tough, ferious, hard, screamo, and an album thats brilliant then get this cd! So if you want a total butt kicking when you take a listen then get it today! This cd is best heard LOUD!! Plus theres a farwell letter from both Clark brothers telling you that TFU is finished. It also tells you how they got started and how they did what they did from basically 96-99. So alittle TFU history is in order and its cool to hear what there thoughts on there band was. If you like TFU then get this today!