#1 [Enhanced][Explicit Lyrics]

Fischerspooner

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 2003)
• Original Release Date: February 25, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00008BLBL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  | 
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,606 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

First released on Munich's fashionable International Deejay Gigolos label back in 2001, Fischerspooner's debut album #1 was an immediate underground sensation. The creation of two New York fashion queens, Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, it swiftly became the defining example of what clued-up onlookers began to know as electroclash--a brand of synthetic punk music using not guitars and drums, but the traditional tools of the 80s musician: synthesiser, vocoder, sampled handclaps, sequenced bass. Feted in the style press, Fischerspooner became immediate cult superstars--and at the beginning of 2002, signed to Ministry Of Sound for a hefty sum. "Emerge" is the record's defining moment: a seismic explosion of bass-powered synth-flurries accompanied by a nagging bon vivant mantra--"Looks good / Feels good / Sounds good"--it's up there with Donna Summer 's "I Feel Love" and New Order 's "Blue Monday" in the canon of all-time dancefloor classics. And luckily, the rest of the record is almost as good. "F***er" sounds like a fuel-injected Kraftwerk, all high-speed technoid blips and orgasmic vocoder moans, while "Turn On" finds Fischerspooner crafting their answer to a straightforward pop song--albeit, one that vogues more than Madonna, and preens more than Prince. It's a fantastic, accomplished debut. --Louis Pattison

Product Description

Originally released in 2002, this reissue of the brash, flashy, sexy, pulsing and slightly warped debut album 'No. 1', includes 2 hidden tracks 'Mega C' & 'Emerge' (Junkie XL remix). Captiol. 2005. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The alcoholic as critic., December 12, 2004

By	Elvirus (Manchvegas, NH) - See all my reviews

I am drunk right now. I am listening to this record right now. It is beautiful. Play it loud. Dance like a goon. Wag your head back and forth. Spin around. Wake up naked in your kitchen. Feels good. This is rock and troll for the Nintendo generation. BLAST. Pitch, roll, dive. Judicious use of the pitch quantizer effect. Dammit, where is my Casio? I am inspired! GET THIS RECORD. Pour yourself a martini. Extra olives, please. One-man rave in a dark apartment in Manchester, New Hampshire. Face-plant on the leather couch. Emmmmmm. Emmmmmm.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sounds Good, Looks Good, Feels Good Too!, March 31, 2003

By	Brett D. Cullum (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

A word on this retro debate,and then on to the album ...

I was there in the 80s listening to Kraftwerk and Visage as they came out (cough cough). Fischerspooner is a throwback in style in much the same way Lenny Kravitz is a throwback to the 60s. There are definite influences here from the 80s, but this is a reinvention of the form! These two art students are doing something very fresh and new. This ain't no rehash, and certainly is no Sigue Sigue Sputnik (as one reviewer mentioned).

It's a damn good dance album, but it also has more than one mode. Often you just get one beat, and one mood for an entire CD when you buy an electronic album. But Fischerspooner varies their songs enough to make you feel like you're in an album and not just in a club. Not since Schiller or Enigma have I experienced the whole album with a dance artist as much as I did this one. But the high point definitely hits with EMERGE. It's a single that stays in your head on a loop for days.

Snap up the limited edition with the DVD. You get all the videos and documentary footage that will make it all worth it! Join the revolution here! :-) Fight the boring dance music, and get into something punky fresh and new. Even if half the world is grooving to this as a VH-1 commercial! But you gotta admit the song is better than anything they play!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars #1. Simply The ONE!, March 3, 2003

By	Dogville (Sunny Island) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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Casey Spooner said he formed the band with Warren Fisher as he was going through mid-life crisis. What a good crisis that was! 'Cause Fischerspooner "is the best thing that has happended to music since electricity." They absolutely blew minds away!

If you like what they have done for others in the form of remixes, you've heard nothing yet as their own music is nothing but #1. It's a lethal combination of that 80's post-modern punk wave sound pumped up to some delicious synthesizers and punctuated with beats, bleeps and sonic-space effects. It's an awesome tribute to the punk-rock synthesizer tunes of yesteryear without ever losing sight of that 21st century electronic triump.

A very good reason to snap this limited edition is the bonus full-length DVD containing the 2003 version of the EMERGE video. This is a fraking classic video with an eclectic mix of stunning visuals with interceptions of slow-mo, b/w and color. There's also a whole bunch of extras like documentary, remixes and more. This is one hell of a value-for-money package. If you haven't picked this up, you are missing a great deal!