Grand Opening and Closing | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Not quite like anything you've heard before

Grand Opening and Closing | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Why...Of Course.

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	Grand Opening and Closing Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Seeland Records, 2001 average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not quite like anything you've heard before

If there is such a thing as MIO (Metal-In-Opposition) then this is it. I wasn't entirly sure what I was getting into when I put this on for the first time. I was greeted with a dark, aggressive and crushing album. Other reviewers are right to liken this album to a cross between Thinking Plague, Mr Bungle and King Crimson as it has the avant garde melodies of the first, the wackyness of the second and the dissonance of the thrid (well, their more recent, experimental work anyway).

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's strength is that the note choices, odd rhythms are very much in line with avant-prog/RIO bands like Henry Cow and Thinking Plague whilst being overtly metal at the same time. It's not much of a challenge to mimic the avant-garde aesthetic but it is a great challenge to genuinely capture it and make it your own. There are times throughout this album that send chills down my spine. Other times they seem determined to make your ears bleed with dissonance and noise. Likewise, their metal elements do not disappoint. These guys rock. They groove. They make you bang your head. It's a combination I didn't think would work but it really really does.

Despite comparing to other bands there is nothing that sounds quite like this. SGM are totally unique and recommended to any fan of experimental metal or hard edged avant rock.

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Why...Of Course.

Humblest of listeners,this could be the sound you have come to expect from NOTHING.Yes...Perhaps."Elaborative music arising from primitive noise",as put by a curator of the "Museum"."Like choking on a bone of goodness",said the little boy from Below.Yes...Perhaps.

Excellently disconcerting.

Lord Chimp describes it well; this cd would be happy near Thinking Plague, Mr. Bungle's "Disco Volante", and Doctor Nerve. Fast, aggressive, and just plain weird, with an occasional slower song thrown in for variety.

omg this is my 3rd favorite band now

this is the first time i had the pleasure of listening to sleepytime gorilla museum. what an album! amazing balance of wierd and normal techniques this album will be loved by all extremely accessable. sleeep is wrong is the stand out track. great use of voices it sounds like a demented pirate song at some parts.the start stop technique is used as is virtually every other technique known by the musical world well everything except speed. speed is not sleepytime gorilla museum's domain pownging rythems and catchy-as-hell song structures and lyrics rains free in the domain of sleepytime gorilla museum.

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good album

This is definately a good album. Not nearly as good as Idiot Flesh. Not all the songs are as good as I'd like, but these guys always put out good music. There is one song that is pretty awfull though and isn't very unique- 1997, bad song. My favorites are Sleepytime, Sleep is Wrong and Powerless.

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Tracks
Sleep Is Wrong - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Frykdahl, Nils | Ambugaton - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Shamrock, David | Ablutions - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kihlstedt, Carla | 1997 (Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's...) - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Frykdahl, Nils | The Miniature - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Shamrock, David | Powerless - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Frykdahl, Nils | The Stain - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Rathbun, Dan | Sleepytime (Spirit Is a Bone) - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Frykdahl, Nils | Sunflower - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Shamrock, David

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