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Grassy Knoll

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 17, 1996)
• Original Release Date: September 17, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046JA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #222,318 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
"Black Helicopters," "Corrosion of the Masses," "Fall of the American Empire," "Roswell Crash," and "The Grassy Knoll" sound like index entries in a book about conspiracy-theory paranoia, but the first four are actually song titles from Positive; the fifth is the name of the group that made the album. The Grassy Knoll is actually just aural assembler Bob Green and whatever hired hands he brings on board for each project. His music has also been described as ambient, techno, dub, fusion and prog-rock. Too often, though, it simply sounds like new-age background music with the bottom brought up in the mix and with distortion added to the bass and guitar. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent & Different, June 6, 2001

By	Zila (Baltimore) - See all my reviews

This is the first album I've reviewed. I'd like to start by asking what the HELL is Geoffrey Himes smoking? Did he even listen to this record? It sure doesn't seem like he did. "new-age background music" ? Cmon man!!

So, here I am writing a review from the perspective of somebody who has actually listened to this thing. Let me say that this is one of my favorite albums. I admit I like their self-titled album more (it seems to be a little less polished, a little more rough around the edges, and I like that), but this one finishes very close behind it.

The songs are all instrumental. All have a very cool, driving beat, good use of drums and bass. Often very funky. On top of this you may hear very jazzy (and often very wild) sax and trumpet, piano, string samples, and other less recognizable instruments :)

The whole effect ranges from dark forboding and desolate (as if you were being shown an empty world, ruined cities, after a war or something.. I dont know, just some of the solo trumpet stuff gives me that kind of chilling impression), to crazy and chaotic (even almost angry at times with those wild solos), to funky.

I havn't seen everything, but I havn't yet found anything quite like Grassy Knoll. It's sad the cd is kind of tough to find, it's a real work of art.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ambient Rock, May 15, 1998

By A Customer

This collection of kinda-scary jazz-rock items brings to mind the "Jazz" qualities of Acid Jazz - fine musicianship, teamwork, and reigned-in improv. Their themes may be modern, but their technique is, at the heart, old-school. This is for the more intelligent Acid Jazz afficianadoes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars positive, positive!, May 15, 2006

By	steven macanka "S/M" (St. James, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

goeffrey himes has stopped reviewing cds for amazon.com thank the lord above-i hope you decay real slowly listening to this cd for the first time in your life. you are supposed to listen to the music, and then take the drugs, and then shoot yourself in the head, and then AND only then do you write a review. what a wonderfully stupid person you are. this kind of review sends people back to STUPID bands like- the backstreet boys, j-low, britney spears, and every hairspray hair band of the 80,90, and beyond. besides his stupid review, i would like to say- go out and find this cd it is well worth your energy. then and only then can you write your own review.