Total Recall [Live]

Negative Approach | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 1994)
• Original Release Date: August 27, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Touch & Go Records
• ASIN: B0000019IC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,825 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lost Cause

2. Can't Tell No One

3. Sick of Talk

4. Why Be Something That You're Not

5. Nothing

6. Fair Warning

7. Ready to Fight

8. Lead Song

9. Whatever I Do

10. Negative Approach

11. Tied Down

12. Hypocrite

13. Evacuate

14. Said and Done

15. Nothing

16. Your Mistake

17. Live Your Life

18. Friend or Foe

19. Dead Stop

20. I'll Survive

See all 37 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars pure rage, January 23, 2003

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Ryan (california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Recall (Audio CD)

"Total Recall" is one of the best representations of hardcore that America has produced. It's not that Negative Approach are great musicians or lyricists, and the production is not what some people would call "passable" (though I love the raw stuff) ... it's that the sheer anger and nihilistic hopelessness that so many of us have experienced at one time or another comes through loud and clear in their music.
I have to take issue with a previous reviewer's comments on this album. He wrote that NA didn't "get it," that they were too one-dimensional and were just acting out on one aspect of punk/hardcore; the anger and disaffection.
Well, maybe that's how NA ACTUALLY felt. If they did write these songs out of affectation, I certainly don't hear it. The first 11 tracks (their song off of the "Process of Elimination" comp and their self titled 7") in particular are so full of venom and bile, with Brannon's perfectly growled vocals, that I can't believe Negative Approach didn't mean every word they sung at the time they were singing them.
Besides, I think bands like SSD are what made people laugh at hardcore (I love SSD too, by the way). The militantly straight edge bands that emerged in the early 80s probably did far more to alienate people than bands like NA. Yeah, maybe NA's fans were meatheads and skinheads... but, then again, so were a lot of Black Flag's (and Fear's!) fans.
At any rate, all that aside, this album rocks. The "Tied Down" LP isn't that great, but the rest of the tracks more than make up for it. Happy, well-adjusted people may not dig it, but as for angry f**k-ups, well, Negative Approach is IT.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nobody else mentioned it, May 22, 2000

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Joseph D Poerschke (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Recall (Audio CD)

Negative Approach is fantastic. Nobody else mentioned it so I'll say that you should also check out the Laughing Hyenas. This is what Negative Approach turned into. Hard Times is a kickin' bluesy postpunk album. If you were listening to Negative Approach when you were young you've probably grown up a bit by now. Nice to see how there hardcore boys matured.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent hardcore, December 27, 2001

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chris lea (boerne, tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Total Recall (Audio CD)

negative approach was it. the most angry, crushing hardcore band around at the time. they made their (also excellent) fellow mid-westerners the necros look like...i dunno a pop punk band or something, and that's pretty hard to do...this collection damn well better be in every punk's collection. it gathers their all time classic 10 song 7", the song off the 'process of elimination' comp 7", and the 'tied down' lp, plus a bunch of live and demo stuff. the unreleased stuff is all disposible due to horrible sound except for the last 6 tracks, which feature some otherwise unavailable tracks. overall, this is more than worth its price.