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───────────────────────────────────{iNFO}────────────────────────────────────
ARTiST...: Bionic Jive
TiTLE....: Armageddon Through Your Speakers
YEAR.....: 2001
GENRE....: Crossover
LABEL....: Interscope
RiPPED...: 11-11-2007
QUALiTY..: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
SiZE.....: 69,7 MB
Encoder : LAME 3.97
─────────────────────────────────{TRACKLiST}─────────────────────────────────
01. Who's Your God Part I 00:51
02. Shut 'em Down 03:11
03. Pump 03:41
04. I Shot Lucifer 03:37
05. Hands to the Roof 03:04
06. Swarm 03:51
07. Break the Chains 03:07
08. Freaks 03:41
09. Rock on 03:22
10. Ricochet 04:06
11. Get it Hot 00:46
12. Kerosene 03:26
13. Walking with Shadows 03:34
14. Goodbye 04:24
15. Who's Your God Part II 00:50
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45:31 min
───────────────────────────────{RELEASE_NOTES}───────────────────────────────
Being a second-wave rap-metal group arriving shortly after Limp
Bizkit's rise to unexpected success, Bionic Jive can't help
sounding a little formulaic. It's hard not to think of bands
like 311 or Rage Against the Machine while listening to
Armageddon Through Your Speakers -- bands who pioneered this
rap-metal sound and sounded innovative doing so. But Bionic
Jive didn't surface in 1992 like Rage, or in 1993 like 311, or
even in 1997 like Limp Bizkit. They arrived in late 2001, and
as a result, their music sounds very much of the moment. After
all, where two or three years earlier rap-metal bands were
anomalies, in 2001 they sounded incredibly commonplace if not
ubiquitous, with bands like P.O.D. and Linkin Park coming
seemingly out of nowhere and storming up the charts and into
mainstream consciousness. Those who can manage to look past
this -- or who simply don't care about this sort of stuff --
should find Bionic Jive's major-label debut rather impressive.
The group features a guitar-bass-drums trio fronted by two MCs,
and the sum of these parts is indeed potent -- never less than
rousing and often manic in terms of energy. Furthermore, the
group writes solid songs: The intros often feature memorable
riffs, the verses feature some intense rhyming, the choruses
feature overt hooks, and overall, the rhymes and riffs
synthesize surprisingly well. So, in sum, Bionic Jive seems to
have the rap-metal style polished and have a few great moments
here with "Shut 'Em Down," "I Shot Lucifer," and "Swarm." But
there are some problems. Sure, there are some great moments;
unfortunately, there's also a lot of repetition here -- the
group seems to have found a formula and is unwilling to
experiment. And seasoned rap listeners can't help but find much
of the rhyming here overly cliche'd and, to a certain extent,
out of context -- lyrical motifs involving money and Moe"t and
pimpin' and poppin' collars can't help but seem derived. And in
the end this problem just becomes far too looming -- this album
just feels too manufactured. The best rap-metal employs its own
motifs, draws from its own structures, and ultimately creates
its own context. Unfortunately, few rap-metal bands do this
circa 2001, and Bionic Jive definitely isn't one of them; they
simply synthesize what seems like a potent formula. And though
they indeed succeed at constructing a potent formula, that
formula's just too evident to the seasoned listener. Fans of
similarly formulaic rap-metal bands like Limp Bizkit and P.O.D.
should find this of similar quality, though, and in that
respect perhaps worth investigating.
Taken from www.allmusic.com
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