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Vincebus Eruptum: Outsideinside

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What a concept; combine the first two (and most classic) Blue Cheer albums on one disc so you can put it on, turn it up and trip out on the heaviest rock of the late 60s. In fact, Blue Cheer's brand of heaviness has rarely ever been matched. They were heavier than their hard-rock contemporaries, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple. Perhaps Black Sabbath was heavier when they came along but Sabbath was heavy in a sludgy, negative way whereas Blue Cheer was heavy in a vibrant, life-affirming fashion. Most "metal' bands followed the Black Sabbath route, and Led Zeppelin paved the way for more sophisticated hard-rock but there never was, and probably never will be, anything quite like Blue Cheer. As primitive as they were, the Cheer kicked it out thick and heavy with a true sense of rock and roll. You can't go wrong with this CD. "Vincebus Eruptum" is raw, agressive distortion and feedback drenched blues-rock. "Outsideinside" is just as gutsy but trippier and more sophisticated comparably (Even some piano tastefully blended in with the sonic mayhem.) Much is made of the fact that these guys were not very good musicians. But, the sum product is amazing. Some folks also complain about the way these albums were recorded, with the sound whooshing back and forth between the left and right channels. However, I dig it. You can get dizzy listening to this stuff through headphones. In conclusion, if you want to own some of the greatest hard rock ever recorded, this is it. The sound quality is primitive but the energy that this band had is unbeatable. "New Improved Blue Cheer" has some great songs too but these are the essential Blue Cheer albums on this disc.

The trio of Blue Cheer who consisted of bassist/vocalist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stevens and drummer Paul Whaley were one of the psychedelic sixties loudest bands. This latest 2 for one release of Blue Cheer's first two albums "Vincebus Eruptum" and "Outsideinside" on Track Records, U.K. is a bargain when you consider if you bought each individually you'd pay almost twice as much. "Vincebus Eruptum" released in 1968 was a solid album full of garage rockers complete with distorted guitars, pounding drums and wailing vocals. The album produced one hit "Summertime Blues" which took the song to new levels with it's obvious psychedelic influence. But the album also had lots of other good songs such as "Parchment Farm", "Rock Me Baby", "Second Time Around", "Out Of Focus", and "Doctor Please". Their second release "Outsideinside" released later in 1968 was an even better album utilizing the same formula that made "Vincebus Eruptum" a success. Lots of distorted guitars with tons of feedback, loud drums and screaming vocals. The standouts on "Outsideinside" are "Feathers From Your Tree", "Just A Little Bit", "Come And Get It", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", and "The Hunter". In addition to the music you get the video of "Summertime Blues" that can be played on a PC or MAC. The video is encoded in Quicktime. I could not play the video on my PC. My only complaint about this new 2 for one release is that I'm not certain that it's been remastered from the original master tapes. The liner notes could have been better too. If you enjoy listening to 60's psychedelic rock then this is a must have.

The guy who described Blue Cheer as having "Hendrixian ambition with Count Five talent" pretty much nailed it; nevertheless, "Vincebus Eruptum" is a remarkable document for its simple, in-your-face production and relentlessly heavy sound, and deserves the attention of any heavy music fan. "Outsideinside" suffers a bit from its attempt at a more sophisticated production job but still contains some great tunes and is well-worth checking out, especially for anyone interested in exploring the "San Francisco Sound" (other great examples of this "sound" are Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow", Steve Miller Band's "Sailor", Quicksilver Messenger Service's first album, and Grateful Dead's "Anthem of the Sun"). If you like this disc, though, beware: don't waste your money on any of their other releases, which were uniformly boring and bore no resemblence to the music on this disc.

"Vincebus Eruptum" is from late '67, and can be seen as the start of hardcore and thrash, if not metal and punk. Screaming (but still GOOD) vocals, fairly simple bass, thudlike drums, and electric guitars with so much feedback it all melts over each other like copper and tin in the furnace. Time changes abound, and the only (slight) exception the the rule herre is rack #2, "Rock Me", an electric blues number that sounds so primitive you can almost believe cavemen heard B.B. King, decided John Lee Hooker could do it better, and found some high tech electronic equiptment and recorded take one.
Then there's "Outsideinside", from '68. Same line-up, but now they are much more mellow (in a psychedelic way). The cover of "Satisfaction" by the Stones is probably heavy enough to be on the first album. Otherwise, there's still a lot of metal (or proto-metal), and even though it's mellower than on the first album, it's still heavier than the overwhelming majority of what was out that year. It's also very good, once you get past lyrics about acid trips and such.
This is so much heavier and wilder, and just looser, than any HM you hear. There was nothing recorded like this in the 60's, except maybe "Kick Out the Jams" by MC5, and after the 60's, as the HM genre became nore defined, the feedback cleaned itself up, and the naive insanity of some of those pre-1970 metal albums couldn't be duplicated.

I love this album! It pretty much started it all. It is very heavy and uncouth. Dickie Peterson screams like a maniac, while Leigh Stevens just blares away on his fuzz-filled, wall-blastin' guitar. Their cover of Summertime Blues actually went Top 20 in '68, but were still pretty much underground after that. This is 2 albums in one. Vincebus Eruptum and Outsideinside. If you are looking for sludgy proto-metal from the start of this glorious genre, go uot and buy this. You won't regret it.

This a great album and is one of the best that gets labeled as "acid rock" . Sure the songs arent all that complicated and not to many people remember Blue Cheer (the band or the substance) but this is still a great album . One of the best features is that you get two albums on one cd (at a good price) but you also get a video clip of "summer time blues" . The clip was filmed in what looks like their early days at some small venue (they had about twice as much equipment when I saw them in '68).

The only real downside to this album are that at times the balance in the songs is off (the vocals or guitars drown-out everything a lot) and this album just doesnt capture the energy or volume that they played with . You probably have also read other reviews where people are commenting that Blue Cheer was loud but if you never saw them live you have no idea...They were so loud and the projection of the sound was so great that if you were standing in the "cheap seats" or even outdoors it still felt like you had your head pressed against one of the speaker cabinets. The notes in the album also have a little story about them getting noise complaints from ten , yes Ten MILES AWAY! ...now I dont know if thats true but I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen

"Heavy Metal" is a funny term. The fact that two words manage to span the musical gap between Sleep and Gamma Ray is almost as phenomenal as "Blues" getting us from Son House to Led Zeppelin. Here we are presented with both and neither: Blue Cheer is too soulful for metal, too drugged to boogie. At the same time, the listener finds herself confronted with one of the most and least original offerings in heavy rock: one can almost visualize Jack Bruce's nose wrinkle as he listens to this seeming Cream clone, but even those heavy Englanders were never as experimental as Cheer dared to be.

If you're looking for metal's Skid Row (or even for a cohesive drum line), you're asking for something this nicely-priced two-album disc does not have to offer. However, if you're looking for metal's skid row (that is, the dirty foundations of heavy rock), you've found one of the key elements. Blues and Bass erupt here like a slothful volcano, and the product is bewildering. The listener might not always know what to do with Blue Cheer (indeed, the band itself isn't always sure what to do), but it is evident that the heavy rock movement owes a debt to this West Coast trio. No need to go further into their catalog: every piece of the puzzle is here. Metal historians, blues explorers, buy today!

Simply put, this is one of the best CD's I have ever heard. I mean are you kidding? Blue Cheer's first two (and best) albums released on one beautiful CD. Originally released on Polydor in 1968, Blue Cheer's first two albums were balls-to-wall, fuzzed out, rockin' metal bliss. The first album, 'Vincebus Eruptum' is a fuzz-drenched, three-chord, blues oddesy. Dickie Peterson handles vox and bass with much aplomb, backed by Paul Whaley (A monster on the kit), and Leigh Stevens (rockin' the fuzz-box and wah). This album is heavy, but the real gem is 'Outside Inside', a true psychedelic classic, recorded months later. Portions of this album were recorded outside at Pier 47 in NY Harbor and at gate 5 in Sausalito, CA. Police came from 10 miles away due to noise complaints. You can actually feel this in the music. 'Outside Inside' is far superior to 'Vincebus Eruptum', as Blue Cheer really began to take adavantage of modern studio technology, really utilizing panning and over-dubs to create a psychedelic masterpiece. I cannot reccomend this CD enough. Blue Cheer is criminally underappreciated, and this CD is their crown jewel.

Man..a band that birthed a gerne LEFT IN THE DUST!! Just like COVEN(AMERICAN as well!!) who released their evil debut before BLACK SABBATH(did Sabbath copy them???)

I love how these guy's were AMERICAN..we really did create so much of the UNDERGROUND music attitude!!

I hate modern music..BUY THIS COMBO TODAY!!!!!!

''FROM THE PAST COME's THE STORM's''

i never received the item. moviemars requested a refund which i have yet to see on my statement. i'll never dealwith them again.