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Summary: MBM's best
Comment: A stroke of genius. MBM has never been this good since, partly because Dangers has stopped actually, err, singing. A perfect combination of paranoid sci-fi beats, brilliant samples, dark lyrics, and hard beats. One of the top electronic albums of all-time.
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Summary: Meat Beat's Masterpiece
Comment: Being an MBM since waay back in '89, I remember hearing this release with trepidation. "Did Meat Beat go techno?" Well guess what, they went from the dissintegrating genre of industrial music to being one of the leading pioneers of the electronic music scene in the 90s. Never before had Jack Dangers put his voice, or his samples to better use to weave a protest against the Reagan/Bush/Thatcher administrations of the 80s and early 90s. He was, like a lot of us youngsters, upset at what had been dubbed the "New World Order" and he, along with Johhny Stephens used Satyricon as a forum to vent their frustrations on issues such as politics, animal rights, corporate greed, depletion of natural resources, overpopulation, even organized religion was a target. What resulted stands the test of time, even now over 15 years later. I only hope their new album "Autoimmune" goes back to the biting raps of MBM's past.
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Summary: Very Good.
Comment: This album must be turned up to 11. Unless your neighbors don't like you.
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Summary: Still stands today as the best MBM Album IMHO
Comment: Much has been said already, and I just wanted to add my humble opinion to the mix. I first heard MBM in the late 80's/early 90's with "God OD" and "99%". "Satyricon" was the first CD which really made me a fan. The best part I think is having listened to this enough I know all the samples by heart. So when I'm watching television I might happen to catch a sample in it's original context. For example, "Drop" and "Original Control Version 2" use samples from John Carpenter's "Dark Star". "Your Mind Belongs to the.." has samples from the movie "The Big Bang" strung together. Even watching PBS, the PBS commercial used the beginning of "Euthanasia" in a loop. Pretty cool. That's all I wanted to say.
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Summary: 100%
Comment: Considering that Satyricon was released in 1992 just blows my mind! If it were 1992 all over again, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything like it.
Especially with Satyricon, MBM mixes 60's retro with modern dance and low-fi experimental electronica. Satyricon is packed with atmosphere, catchy dance hooks, low-fi loops, sub-bass booms and basslines and pure analog synth wizardry. (now if Jack would only remix Satyricon in 5.1...)
They're all good, but this is definitely my favorite MBM. If you're new to MBM and wondering where to start, start with Satyricon.
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