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This album kicks carol siever
GROWS ON YOU BUT NOT THEIR BEST
Album Grows On You
a bit too far over the edge
You could get lost in here

A Spectrum of Infinite Scale
Man or Astro-Man?
Manufacturer: Touch & Go Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004WH9K
Release Date: 2000-09-05

Tracks:

Pathway To The Infinite
Song Of The Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator
Preparation Clont
Curious Constructs Of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves To Be Thought Of As Fingers
Um Espectro Sem Escala
Many Pieces Of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together At A Rave And Schmoozing With A Brick
Untitled
Very Subtle Elevators
Within One Universe There Are Millions
Spectrograph Reading Of The Varying Phantom Frequencies Of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus
A Simple Text File
Obligatory Part 2 Song In Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor The Plans To Make One
Multi-Variational Stimuli Of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques...

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Countless instrumental records later, Man or Astroman? have seemingly chosen "Astroman" as their modus operandi. The skewered Ventures surf-rock riffs are still lurking in the mix, but the emphasis these days is on space travel. The song titles themselves grow in length and absurdity ("Obligatory Part 2 Song In Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor the Plans to Make One" is a personal fave), but the sonic jousting is focused on a propulsive bull's-eye that ensures these tunes rock, no matter how much they meander. They are, perhaps, the only band to incorporate a Pink Floyd influence without turning their music into ambient environmental music for superior plant growth. Instead, with the help of gurgling synthesizers, hyperelectrified lap-steel guitars, and short-wave radio interference, Man or Astroman? continue their search for life beyond standard three-chord rock, and they find it. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

This album kicks carol siever.......2002-11-20

the weirder they get/the better they are. i hated this album at first. but after forcing myself to listen to it over and over, it is now my favorite. seeing them pull it off live really helped too. MOAM, this was a great one. Now it's time to put out another studio album that is not old material!

GROWS ON YOU BUT NOT THEIR BEST.......2001-07-28

LIKE THE OTHER REVIEWER SAID, THEY MISS STARCRUNCH ON GUITAR. THIS CD HAS ITS MOMENTS THO. SCI-FI ROCK WILLING TO BE DIFFERENT. BIRDSTUFF STILL GREAT ON DRUMS.

Album Grows On You.......2001-07-11

When i first purchased this album I was in dismay on how it succeeded in leaving me in withdrawl from Man or Astro-Man. After listening to this album for a second time i grew some liking to a few tracks, and now i have found it to be an entertaining album, although it lacked the certain appeal that Man or Astro-Man has had in the past, i do believe that this is an exceptional album but in reality Man or Astro-Man isn't much without Starcrunch and the great albums produced by these fellows will most certainly never equal the "Project Infinity" and "Experiment Zero" days. Then again, I could be wrong.

a bit too far over the edge.......2001-06-07

this is by far my least favorite astro-album. MOAM started a gradual transition away from "space surf rock" toward more offbeat and noisy music with the "technetium" album, and may have gone a bit too far this time. "Technetium" is an amazing album, "EEVIAC" is good, but this one just goes too far into the "strange noises" for my tastes. i mean, really, there's a track that's nothing but the buzzing of a dot-matrix printer! there are very few tracks on this album that seem to be more than "organized noise".

but hey, they're free to experiment, and i'll be buying their next effort the day it comes out. but as it stands, I can't recommend this particular album even to seasoned MOAM fans, much less people looking for an introduction to the band. (for that, you need "Project Infinity" or "Experiment Zero")

You could get lost in here.......2001-01-06

Honestly, it took me a while to catch up... I had been having fun with the old surf rock of Man or Astro Man for a while, listening to them when space was more a theme, and the music was just surf. When I skipped a few albums (missing the whole evolution) I was dismayed-- where was my surf rock?

And a lot of people never get past that... so, to them: too bad. Man or Astro Man already released their normal-ish surf bands with fifties movie camp, and I love those disks, and they're not going away. If that's what you want, listen to the old albums.

This band has stepped up into the business of creating universes between two speakers. It's not about guitar riffs anymore... it's about sound. There's lots of synths in here, lots of effects. Man or Astro Man has gone to the moon and the retro-heads are eating their dust and choking on the taste.

Our favorite Astromen have released an album that outpaces Radiohead in the sonic sculpture world. If you want the past, go buy a Ventures compilation. If you want the future, buy Spectrum of Infinite Scale.

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