One look at the tracklisting suggests this is not really a studio album by the industrial goth rock (or, as they've been sounding lately, just "rock") band Godhead, but some sort of remix or tribute album by lead singer Jason Miller. It does beg the question: Just what the hell IS this, anyway? Some of the tracks are credited to the original artist while others aren't (Smack My [..] Up by Haujobb?). Listening to the album doesn't really help. Most of the thirty-second samples sound intriguing, but the album isn't quite what it appears to be. The first track, Narayan, opens up with a dancy beat and some familiar vocal samples from the original by Prodigy and sounds like a remix. That is, until the throaty verse vocals come in, presumeably by credited band Funker Vogt, which lack the subtle charm of the original. Is this a remix OF a cover? The mix skirts around a bit before a slight overlap into Dr. Online by Zeromancer (an ok transition, but could have been exploited better). This track DOES use the original vocals, but barely deviates from the original version. Couldn't get your hands on the unmixed tracks, Jason? After only about a minute or so, Narayan returns for a few seconds (I thought that was a nice touch) before launching into what I assume is supposed to be Smack My [...] Up (also by Prodigy), but has been rendered so unrecognizable (and flat-out silly-sounding) I never would have guessed it. The album plays (or tries to play) like one long mix track. A few of the transitions work well, but most of them are jerky and forced-sounding. At 19 tracks, the disc isn't nearly as long as one would expect, since most of these tracks are only around a minute or two on average. In fact, some of them are way too short and/or sound like nobody touched them. Rope by Pig sounds like someone took the first 45 seconds or so of the album track verbatim (why bother?) and jammed it between two other tracks. And as soon as it starts to really rock, someone changes the channel. That's not to say it's all mediocre. Virus by KMFDM gets a pretty good treatment and although the roboticized vocals sound a little strange, it's a very catchy, if brief, chunk of music. I'm not familiar with all the songs presented here, but other stand-outs segments to me are It Won't Do by Slick Idiot, Blow U Away by Pigface, Visions by Razed in Black, and the last few tracks by Godhead that close the album. So what was all this? Seems almost like some sort of Pigface-style group experiment with little cover tunes and remixes crashing into each other left and right. Whatever it is, it's an interesting distraction, but it's probably not going to find its way into my player on a regular basis. After all, why not just put in the real Prodigy and rock a little harder?Read full review
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