QUOTE (Abschalten @ Jun 19 2010, 04:42 PM)

"Blackheart Revolution" took a few listens for me to get into, and my initial reactions were that it wasn't nearly as good as their previous work. I think I'm still of the opinion, but after giving it another chance I came to the conclusion that the album just ends much more weakly than it starts. The song Revolution, however, is the standout track to me. I think musically and lyrically it opens pretty damn strong, and I like the lyrical content and the meaning of the song as well. It just bums me out that the last half of the CD doesn't really stand up to the strong statements against mediocrity that the title track states.
Some of my favorite tracks are One Who Feeds, Terrorvision, Jackin' Man, and Sin City. In fact I believe the "Sin City" album is their overall best piece of work. It just rocks the whole way through the album.
I *HIGHLY* recommend seeing the Genitorturers live in concert at least once before you die. I saw them back in October 2001 and I've been meaning to see them again ever since. They put on a HELL of a show.
Well, I just got all those MP3s except for One Who Feeds, because I couldn't find it on amazon.com...do you remember which album that was part of?
I am indeed enjoying them.
I'm listening to Jackin' Man today. I had thought that the song would be based on, some parody of, or some derivative of Travelin' Man, the classic pop song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0janfcZ8LUw(Kind of like "I Touch Myself" is based on another popular song.)
When I listened to Jackin' Man, though, and it was obvious it didn't have anything to do with the Ricky Nelson song, I thought it was pretty hilarious that I'd thought the songs would have anything to do with each other.