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Chicks On Speed | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chicks on Speed
• ASIN: B00004S7RX
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,445 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #79 in Music > Dance & DJ > Techno > Hardcore Techno

Track Listings

1. Stop Records Advert

2. Give Me Back My Man

3. For All The Boys In The World

4. Glamour Girl

5. Ped Stang (Re Issue)

6. Little Star

7. Warm Leatherette

8. Kaltes Klares Wasser

9. Yes I Do!

10. Procrastination

11. Mind Your Own Business

12. The Floating Pyramid Over Frankfurt That The Taxi Driver Saw When He Was Landing

13. Euro Trash Girl

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars other best album of the year, November 13, 2000

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bn (olympia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Will Save Us All (Audio CD)

how can chicks on speed have the 2 #1 albums of the year? well, this and rereleases of the unreleases are essentially the same album. well, actually this is the album, and rereleases of the unreleases is a collage of sorts featuring remixes, interviews, out takes, etc. of these songs. so, if you like albums, buy this one. if you like random craziness, good time summer, and mix tape fodder buy rereleases. or you can buy both! whoo!

oh yeah, in case you were wondering: atari teenage riot + oval + le tigre + books on dadaism = chicks on speed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars these Dadaist Supremes reign supreme!!, April 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Will Save Us All (Audio CD)

Having had the fortune of seeing this band live, I can say that they certainly do live up to the promise of the title: Chicks on Speed are a high-spirited, avant-gaurde electronica Grrl group that deconstruct house, electronica pop, new wave, while generating a deadpan critique of glamour, beauty and fashion.

Purely having fun with the form, they recontextualize the pop sound with early synth beats, vocoders and beatboxes. Editting is jumpy and do-it-yrself, experimental sounds puncture songs, while vocals are refreshingly unenhanced. "Give me back my Man" becomes an industrio-beat box cold play, while their cover of "Warm Leatherette" is perhaps the most athletic and nihlistic its have ever been performed (just to the left of Grace Jone's cover in 82!). "Glamour Girl" is about the only radio/dance-floor friendly listen, but the undertone's are largely absurd and hilarious.

Do yourself a favor and check this disc out, and oh yeah, catch their live show if you ever have the chance!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! Amazing work of musicart redefines music, April 21, 2001

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Edmond Choi (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Will Save Us All (Audio CD)

With the way in which American music is now directed (far downward), it is nice to see such a band as Chicks on Speed gaining momentum here in the US. I first heard Chicks on Speed at the WMF Club in Berlin, fell in love, and had to buy the first WMF album, just to get another taste of COS's raw energy.

C.O.S. is a refreshing blend of powerpop, techno-euro-trash, angry girl rantings, tri-continental lyric sensibilities, and sampling techniques which make you scratch your head and think..."Huh?"

C.O.S. is definetely its own breed of music. However, it is also very accessible. One might easily dismiss it as simple "Arthouse-chic-snob-music", but it really is so much more. Among the tracks, "Kaltes Klares Wasser" is a standout. It has the perfect mix of beat, smart lyrics, and a biting undertone. That, mixed up with a little bit of German, is the formula that works. COS definetely deserves to be noticed, so get used to them, they will "save us all"...right?