Ozric Tentacles is a very good band, but...the dvd with cd is a rip off
351213
Dont get me wrong, I love the album called Erpland(all songs on it), but I just don't feel like buying it again, just for the dvd, I mean I have the erpland cd and dvd must be good but why buy the cd you already have just too get the dvd? That doesnt make sense? Same goes with strangeitude(with dvd)..?

I really love this band an I even like the band future releases like YUM YUM TREE, FLOORS TO FAR AWAY, PAPER MONKEYS, etc. an same goes with the oldest album called Erpsongs(1984/85), Name ozric tentacles cds an I have em all.

But I wish the band or the record company would sell these dvd's seperate from the cd's so us fans can get em without having duplicate cd.
4218464
I borrowed a friend's DVD and I do like the system, however, when I ordered from the Simply Music site they were VERY misleading. They said we would be getting 3 CD's, 3 DVD's, 3 Reference manuals and a roll up pad for 2 payments of 19.95. Turned out we got one CD, one DVD one manual and a paper poster that is supposed to be the music pad. It took 2 months to get it on backorder and then they charged me 10.00 in shipping and handling to cheat me.

Had they just told the truth, I probably would have still bought it, but I hate to be lied to.
156320
I love this cd and would reccomend it to any fan of the band. Shannon Larken's drumming on this CD without question is the best he's ever done. every song is great and if your gonna download the CD get the whole thing it's totally worth the money. now the issue the DVD is a rip off because theirs not nearly enough on it. The DVD is WAY TO SHORT so that's the MAIN reason it can't get a five star review. great album none the less and it's worth it believe me. I also wish both the bonus tracks were on the physical CD and not on the DVD.
4084435
I have listened to samples of the songs on the CD and know the work of BadBoyJoe and so I assume that the music on this disc would be worth 4 or 5 stars.  However, they have put some evil copy protection voodoo on this cd and I cannot play it on a personal computer.  Additionally, when I explore the disc, I find that it contains A)an executable program B) one very large WMV file and C) one small (6kb) file for each of the tracks on the album.  This does not appear to contain normal audio CD format tracks and I worry that I will not be able to play it on my cd player at home.  Ughh!
561645
this dvd is verrryyy good. it misses some very good songs like clown, good god.. the only weak point is the bass. all your hear is the song of the 5th string hitting the fretboard; it sounds a lot better on cds
the other things were already mentioned, like the camera that changes too fast, and the second dvd that it useless.
and the cover of 'one' it's only the end, the "darkness, imprisonning me.." .. don't expect metallica, if you've ever seen them live, you know how good it is ;)
4764541
Absolutely 5 stars for the music, only 1 star for the packaging. Having read  comments about this album, I looked forward to hearing music from this band for the first time (not sure how well known they are in the UK). On removing the packaging, the first thing that caught my eye was the front cover insert which usually has, on the inside, details of the band etc, this was just a piece of card and I could see that the back cover was just the same. The disc itself did not look too professional either, leading me to think that I had spent the UK equivalent of $20 on a dog of an album. Well if I have received a 'burnt' copy , the music is excellent and I am looking forward to listening to the other Too Tall Slim album, 'Rock 'em dead' which I hasten to add has come with a professional standard of front and rear cover and disc. If a 'real' copy of this album exists then I would like to receive it as, at the moment,  I feel I have a copy which someone has produced at home rather than in a professionally produced environment regardless of how good the music is. I wonder if there are any other customers who have received copies with similar packaging to me?
1159741
Gah, spelling errors on the back jacket of the CD case, and NO bonus disc, which presumably means that after they're finished selling the MP3s of the "bonus disc" on their website (which is actually more than the MP3s of the main album...), we're gonna get subjected to a reissue of this disc with the bonus album.  DISAPPOINTING behavior on the part of Distinct'ive.  Remember that there were TWO domestic issues of "Wide Angle"?  Looks like we're in for the same thing with the new album.  We got hosed on Terminator 2 (how many DVD issues of that are there, anyway?), The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (has been issued THREE times now!), the original Star Wars trilogy (reissue of the same "Special Edition" discs with the discs that we've actually WANTED since 1980-something attached to the backside...), Underworld (we all bought this when it came out, then the Extended Edition was close on it's heels...visual content was better on the Extended, but audio content was better on the Original...), and now we're probably gonna get hosed with some extra American (or Japanese) edition of "I Choose Noise", which is gonna cost us FANS extra and have us TOSS the original edition of this disc.  All this chaos, and the record/DVD companies have the AUDACITY to wonder why 1) consumers aren't buying anything (because we're hip to the idea of the "Special Edition" that comes out 31 days after the "Special Edition" we just bought) and 2) consumers are burning things (it's easier to throw out a BURN than an actual disc that we paid $17.99 for...)....all this and it's PIRACY, not stupid marketing ploys, that's killing the industry...urgh.  Keep telling yourselves that, marketing geniuses...really, it's true, really.

Endofrant...I'm off to actually LISTEN to this album that I bought that I probably shouldn't have....Hybrid RULES, though, so when the final "Special Edition" comes out, buy the album.
4753917
This is an excellent album; there is no denying that fact. Napalm Death are in fine form on "Utilitarian," and they even manage to throw in a few curves here and there ("Everyday Pox," anyone?). You should be buying it now, if not sooner.

But Century Media has done a great disservice to the band and their fans by screwing up the digital version. The album proper is sixteen tracks, ending with "A Gag Reflex." The CD version, meanwhile, adds a seventeenth track at the end entitled "Everything In Mono." The limited edition contains two extra songs ("Aim Without An Aim," plus the aforementioned track); both of these are rather oddly inserted mid-stream so that they become tracks 13 and 14, respectively. This means that "Nom De Guerre" becomes track 15, "Analysis Paralysis" becomes track 16, "Opposites Repellent" becomes track 17, and "A Gag Reflex" becomes track 18. I honestly don't know if this was intentional on the band's part or if it was just weirdness on the part of CM, but it has led to the digital version being labelled incorrectly due to some apparent laziness.

What CM has done (in their infinitely infinite wisdom) is to encode the album based on the limited edition. But since they're only selling you sixteen songs, you can probably see where this is going: the last four tracks are mislabeled, and what you end up with is an incomplete album. Sure, you're getting the limited edition's bonus tracks, but you're also missing the last two tracks from the album in the process... "Opposites Repellent" and "A Gag Reflex" are just outright missing. Not getting extra songs is one thing, but not getting a true part of the album is something else entirely (and not something that any true fan of the band-- or music in general-- should be willing to condone). I hate to say it, but buying the CD is the best choice here. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time I've seen CM drop the ball on digital downloads (on this service, as well as others)-- and it saddens me to say that it probably won't be the last.

TL;DR... the album is great (hence the rating), but the digital version has the last four tracks mislabeled, and two songs are missing entirely. You should just buy the CD instead.
582840
I really liked this record alot. I like almost all the songs. I don't really like"God Is Dead".But the rest rocks. I went the lazy rought and just bought the MP3 download. I wish I hadn't. I burned it to a Cd. And It sounds Awefull. You have to turn it up really high to hear it. Which makes it distort if you really crank it. So If you buy this album. Actually go to the store and get it. Or order a physical CD.Cause the down loaded cd's don't sound very good. I give product 4 stars because I'm disapointed in how my CD turned out
479278
This is a great band with great songs.  This is an awful CD with terrible mixes/mastering.  If this is all you can afford, buy it, but maybe the original records were better.  I only have "Come Down" and it's better.  If you only have low-rate mp3 maybe it doesn't matter.
1764066
I have a copy of "Girls With Guns" on tape, and I'd like to have the CD if for no other reason than for the title song, but I don't know who these idiots think they're kidding asking $119 for this disc. Dream on, morons!
862206
Anton Corbin at it again getting all artsy fartsy in B & W. VHS duo Strange and Strange Too will set you back 9 10 bucks plus S/H each only 30 min. to boot but hey love my guys any way I can get them. Who would of known back in 1980 those boy band cuties would mature into such scrumptious 50+ ageless hunks who's music only gets better with time? And NEW fantastic stuff not to mention the B sides NOT on albums. We just DEMAND Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence etc..Well here they are 1990 in B & W from Violator. Compare now 22 years later and personally the more they tinker the better they get. DO NOT leave well enough alone. This was just for posterity but Try getting CD/DVD sets, cheaper and some have 3 disks, all back catalog available off and on various sets or just the album/CD with 10 times the music. Live is incredible!!! For these prices you could get for example "Tour of the Universe-Live in Barcelona 2009 and 2010 concerts 2 CD's and 1 DVD plus bonus tracks for MUCH less-like $9.00 + S/H  AND DVD/CD Violator set don't get turned off by prices gotta keep checking prices my Violator and Tour sets were less than Strange and Strange Too. HOURS of CD DVD's 32 years of exceptional music. Serious collectors still buy VHS. Mine were UVG but I say ULN slap on some shrinkwrap NEW!!
2781229
You know,there's a reason why Metallica is now disgustingly referred to as 'Lica,because there's no metal left in them. The heavy metal died in this band on And Justice For All and hasn't been resurrected,and in my bigoted opinion hasn't been back. Overall,Garage Inc isn't a bad album though to me the price is outrageous,which led me to buy the album,tape the few songs off of it that I liked and give the cd to someone I knew couldn't AFFORD to spend $20 on this. For me the highlight of disc 1 was the Mercyful Fate medley,beginning with their version of Satan's Fall which can be found on Melissa as well as The Beginning for interested parties,then directly into Curse of the Pharoahs and A Corpse Without Soul which were both good choices. After that,we go head-first Into the Coven and the medley's closer Evil. As I have said,the medley was great and worth the cost alone to me,but what disturbed me so much was the following comment made by some twit 'Lica fan stating"I like Mercyful Fate,but why'd they only write five songs?"Sad really. On the second cd we have the entire reason for buying this over-priced slab of plastic to begin with,
the Garage days Revisited EP.This was great then and is still great now,second only to Anthrax's Killer B's for cover tunes. It rocks  as hard in head banging glory as it did at the end of the 80's heyday. The rest of the album is little more than filler material hacked up in a major lack of creativity. I heard 'Lica do a cover of the Ramones 53rd and 3rd once,why couldn't they put that on?It would have been much more entertaining had they done that instead of rehashing their over-masturbated Misfits obsession. Overall,I give this album 31/2 stars,and the 1/2 is pretty generous if you ask me. Get a friend to burn you a copy if you really want it. You'll save yourself some money you could be spending on an SOD album.
1442412
I'll spare you the review of the album itself and assume you'll read other reviews. I will only state it is my favorite Gorgoroth album.

THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE 2007 REGAIN RECORDS "REMASTER" NOT THE ALBUM ITSELF

This version uses the original artwork from the Malicious Records release unlike the previous digipak edition from Season of Mist.

The audio on this CD is a "remastered" version which has sadly been victimized by the loudness war. Comparison of waveforms shows the Regain Records release has been volume boosted to the point of clipping which results in some noticable distortion in the audio. Even worse is The Rite of Infernal Invocation has been trimmed from 6:49 to 4:38 while everything after about 3:30 is simply just noise it has been 6:49 for a whole decade why shave 2:11 off?

Are this problems as bad as some more recent loudness war victims such as Death Magnetic or World Painted Blood? No.
Does it ruin the album? No. But if you've heard a previous release it's just not the same.

My conclusion? Buy the Season of Mist digipak (or if you can find it cheap the original Malicious Records version) and if you must have the original artwork I'm sure you can find some good hi-res scans on the internet and you could place your CD in a jewel case with artwork printed from those scans.

Also to note the Regain Records versions of Pentagram and Antichrist are also "remasters" but since I have not heard them I do not know for certain if they are also clipped as this one is.
3822637
So let me get this straight: the 1 CD version leaves out the best music. I could pay over $60 (retail as of date of this review) to get the 2 CD deluxe "Illuminated Star Projection Edition" and have the music in 16 bit/44.1 Hz CD quality.  Or I could pay $19 for the blu-ray of the movie, and get access to the music in DTS-HD quality as long as I am willing to tolerate the occasional sound effect on top of the Zimmer score .... hmmmm? What to do? What to do? What to do?
1464341
THIS IS A RIP-OFF (x 2) AND DON'T BUY THIS DOUBLE ALBUM VERSION!

Acadia Records did something here that is quite wrong! They chopped/edited song times (it seems at random) to fit both great albums on one disc (I suspect), then kept the original song times from the original album sleeve(s) on the CD cover, and there is NO mention of these alterations anywhere on the CD or when I bought it!

Here is the track list and times from the CD according to when inserted into a computer or CD player.
Yellow Fever:
01. Baby What You Want Me To Do 4:10 (orig. 6:42)
02. Hot Jelly Roll Blues 4:38 (orig. 4:21)
03. Free Rein 2:35 (orig. 4:14)
04. Sunrise Dance With The Devil 3:08 (orig. 4:28)
05. Song For The Fire Maiden 3:07 (orig. 4:16)
06. Bar Room Crystal Ball 3:17 (orig. 6:52)
07. Half/Time Saturation 3:54 (orig. 4:45)
08. Surphase Tension 3:29 (orig. 3:58)

Hoppkorv:
01. Santa Claus Retreat 4:13 (orig. 4:10)
02. Watch The North Wind Rise 4:03 (orig. 4:39)
03. It's So Easy 6:45 (orig. 2:32)
04. Bowlegged Woman Knock Kneed Man 4:23 (orig. 3:05)
05. Drivin' Around 4:17 (orig. 2:53)
06. I Wish You Would 4:34 (orig. 3:10)
07. I Can't Be Satisfied 4:24 (orig. 3:52)
08. Talking 'Bout You 6:54 (orig. 3:29)
09. Extrication Love Song 4:49 (orig. 4:11)
10. Songs From The Stainless Cymbal 4:03 (orig. 4:01)

I gave it two stars because they are two great albums from Hot Tuna though horribly maltreated here, GRRR! This review is being written by a professional musician and sound engineer.
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2298962
i think that many of us received the same rip off here. sure we got the cd and built in booklet but since i paid nearly thirty dollars for this version i would like it how it had been described, there was no poster in my package. if i wanted just the CD release i could have gone to walmart and picked up one of the thousand copies they have stocked. I hope that amazon and the sellers will correct this or give us partial refunds.