Transmission

Tea Party | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 2010)
• Original Release Date: August 19, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atlantic
• ASIN: B000002JDL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,680 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Direction for the Best Band in Years, November 20, 2003

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Mr. Books - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transmission (Audio CD)

The Tea Party are my favorite band and their diversity is the most amazing thing about them. This cd surely shows their adventure into industrial type music. This is by far their darkest album to date.
1.)Temptation-5 stars-Great great song. Really cool intro riff as well. Good lyrics about a destructive life.
2.)Army Ants-4 stars-Not my favorite on the album, but a good guitar song none the less.
3.)Psychopomp-5 stars-Quite possibly the most emotional song on the record. Great sound and excellent lyrics.
4.)Gyroscope-5 stars-Cool slide guitar riff during the intro/chorus. Cool tribal feel during the bridge as well.
5.)Alarum-5 stars-Another incredibly emotional song. Very dark and depressing. Awesome hard rock song.
6.)Release-4 stars-Very very sad. Great song though, very mellow. A song that has been attached to the white ribbon campaign to which the Tea Party are very active in.
7.)Transmission-5 stars-the title song, very cool riffs and once again, very dark lyrics, cool tribal beat.
8.)Babylon-5 stars-Very techno-ish song. Has a really cool video that goes along with it, the hidden track at the end of it, also known as Embryo, is a kick ass instrumental too.
9.)Pulse-5 stars-Really cool hard rock song, good driving beat from Jeff Burrowns. Once again very depressing song.
10-)Emerald-5 stars-very emotional song, and quite possibly my favorite song on the album. Cool acoustic to electric change.
11.)Aftermath-4 stars-Great way to end the album. A mellow quite, brooding song that sort of wraps everything from the album up.
Great album for anyone looking for Tea Party's darkest music. It is also their heaviest album to date.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Incredible!, November 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Transmission (Audio CD)

After catching the end of one of their songs on MuchMusic, I listened to all the Tea Party clips that amazon.com had to offer. I just couldn't get enough and bought Splendor Solis, The Edges of Twilight, and Transmission all at once (I drove to Canada earlier this year to pick up Triptych).

At first, Edges was my favorite of the three, since it has a *very* solid track list. Every single one of the songs is awesome. Because I was so busy listening to Edges, however, I neglected Transmission somewhat.

Now I find that the more I listen to this CD the more I like it. So I listen more, and I like it more and more and more. This CD, even though it was great to start with, has grown even beyond that. It's both interesting to listen to and entirely hypnotic at times, and the electronic aspect was added perfectly. Of the entire album, I would have to say that my favorites are: Temptation, Psychopomp, Transmission, and Aftermath.

Buy this! You will not be disappointed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE most-played album in my collection for the past 9 years, December 29, 2005

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Treehugger (Syracuse, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transmission (Audio CD)

This album is brilliant. Tea Party is able to combine aggression with thoughtfulness, melody with metal's noise. I bought this cd after hearing "Temptation" once on my college radio station and it didn't disappoint.

The whole album is good for what ails ya--cathartic in ways few artists can manage. Who needs therapy? Like Korn's "Issues," this album takes you through your deeper, darker, unexpressed emotions whether you want to or not. "Temptation" has an honest, earthy sexuality you can't express with any pallid love song. "Gyroscope" and "Army Ants" are the perfect anthems to rev you up for a challenge. "Transmission" and "Babylon," taken together especially, bring you first through the feeling you get when someone isn't listening and then that you don't care whether they listen or not. The song arrangement was done really well; taken as a composition, the album leaves you feeling satiated because it brings you up and down, heats you and cools you.

Jeff Martins vocals at first reminded me of Jim Morrison with their dark, resonant quality. However, the lyrics are so much more satisfying. You can tell from the multi-layered sound (that comes from the many instruments this band experiments with) and the complicated lyrics that one band, at least, actually spends some time on their craft. You will find yourself resenting the fast-food substance on the radio after spending some time with Tea Party.