Wise Up Suckers [Import]

Pop Will Eat Itself | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Camden International
• ASIN: B0000076JD
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,332 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. England's Finest

2. Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me, Kill Me

3. X, Y & Zee

4. 92 F (The Third Degree)

5. Wise Up Sucker

6. Can U Dig It?

7. Def Con One (Including The Twilight Zone)

8. Pweization

9. Karmadrome

10. Get The Girl And Kill The Baddies

11. Not Know James, We're Busy

12. Preaching To The Perverted

13. Cicciolina

14. Wake Up Time To Die

15. Harry Dean Stanton

16. Inject Me

17. Dance Of The Mad

18. Very Metal Noise Pollution

Editorial Reviews

Australian pressing. Standout tracks on this compilation include "Wise Up Sucker", "Get The Girl and Kill The Baddies", and the hilarious account of James Brown's arrest, "Not Now James, We're Busy". "Wake Up Time To Die" is another favorie, lyrically smart and still danceable even as one of the slowest tracks on the album. No evening of techno party dance music would be complete without the ... closer, "Dance of the Mad." 18 total tracks. BMG. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly ageless and infectious..., September 26, 2002

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Saska Albright (Redmond, WA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wise Up Suckers (Audio CD)

I listened to PWEI when they were "current", back in the late 80s and early 90s. Lamenting the fact that the stellar "Cure For Sanity" is no longer in print, I picked up this compilation in order to regain some of the tracks I'd lost when I lost my original tape of "Cure".

Although a few of the tracks here are dated (most notably "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me, Kill Me", "X, Y & Zee" and "92F (The 3rd Degree)"), what's impressive is how many of them are not. Even 10+ years later, PWEI is great dance music, great electronica, great grebo.

One need only listen to the lyrics from "Can U Dig It?" to learn who PWEI's major influences are - musically, they list AC/DC and Run DMC among others; their pop culture diet includes comic books, superheroes, sports and car racing. The PWEI sound is a frenetic, enthusiastic mix of all of the above - white British boys adding their quick-tongued, five-dollar-word version of rap to relentless live guitar, mad drums and decks.

Standout tracks on this compilation include "Wise Up Sucker", "Get The Girl and Kill The Baddies", and the hilarious account of James Brown's arrest, "Not Now James, We're Busy". "Wake Up Time To Die" is still one of my favorite songs of all time, lyrically smart and still danceable even as one of the slowest tracks on the album. No evening of techno party dance music would be complete without the ... closer, "Dance of the Mad."

In my mind, PWEI did for the industrial/dance sound of the 80s what Digital Underground did for rap: made it masterfully, made it fun, and made fans out of people who would otherwise ignore the entire genre. If your current music collection includes the Propellerheads, Moby, The Crystal Method, or the Chemical Brothers, PWEI is not to be missed. Also check out their "This is This..." compilation.

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent album less warhol of a design that was more "grunge", December 10, 2011

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PUNK 30 (AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wise Up Suckers (MP3 Download)

everything about this band reminds me of FLUX and CRASS. great stuff! Wise Up Sucker blows away the more Avante Garde leaning sound with a precise edgy HIT.

4.0 out of 5 stars A good compilation, July 10, 2001

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Jason Snyder (Lewisburg, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wise Up Suckers (Audio CD)

I picked up this album while studying abroad in London. I owned "Cure for Sanity" and "This is the.." on cassette, and upgraded to CD. This is a good compilation that draws from all of PWEI's RCA discs. It's a shame that "Cure for Sanity" is out of print, because it features a much more mature and less dated sound than "This is the..." In any case, this disc is well worth the money. Standout tracks include "Dance of the Mad," "Cicciolina," "Can U Dig It," and "Harry Dean Stanton."