Audio CD review:
Wasp - Inside Electric Circus: The Headless Children

Wasp - Inside Electric Circus: The Headless Children

Band: Wasp Title: Inside Electric Circus: The Headless Children Rating: Release Date: 09 March, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: The Big Welcome 2: Inside The Electric Circus 3: I Dont Need No Doctor 4: 95 N A S T Y 5: Restless Gypsy 6: Shoot From The Hip 7: Im Alive 8: Easy Living 9: Sweet Cheetah 10: Mantronic 11: King Of Sodom And Gomorrah 12: The Rock Rolls On 13: Flesh And Fire 14: D B Blues 15: The Heretic (The Lost Child) 16: The Real Me 17: The Headless Children 18: Thunderhead 19: Mean Man 20: The Neutron Bomber 21: Mephisto Waltz 22: Forever Free 23: Maneater 24: Rebel In The FDG 25: Locomotive Breath 26: For Whom The Bell Tolls 27: Lake Of Fools 28: War Cry 29: L O V E Machine (Live) 30: Blind In Texas (Live)

Customer Reviews electric circus I finally found it at Amazon. Ive been looking everywhere for it for my husband. Ill never shop anywhere else. The reasOn.. SOngs such as "Mantronic" lead you into the Sci Fi world of Blackie and Co. I'm writing a review of this cd and not the release of "Inside The Electric CircUs" without "The Headless Children" is the economic value of purchasing both albums at once. . "Restless Gypsy"'s a wilD time. . Sexy ("95 Nasty"'S a shout out to woman if yOu ask me. . )Sexy cd,original solos and chord combinAtions (No McDonalds "Combo meal" i. e routine daily arrangements here. . )Beautiful acoustic mixed with electric guitArs. . BoB Saget left me as My Amazon fRiend,I want him back. . So Anyways,Blackie and company do a fine job there. I guess I'll mention "The Headless Children" as well,although "The Electric Circus"'s enough to base a five star rating on. I enjoyed that album also. I recall it had more of a classic rock feel to it. Really. . The "Electric Circus" cassette is what I base the reviews rAtings on. fine metal for a bargain price And one must remember that the music itself is the real value here, because the collection's packaging is ugly, the original albums' artwork is poorly represented, and the few lines of notes (brief description of Blackie's career and the band's fortunes through the eighties) are unsatisfying. The price of this collection is excellent for two above-average metal albums. The comments particularly on the two albums here (Inside the Electric Circus and The Headless Children) are misleading, apparently written by someone who did not actually listen to the albums. The music itself, though, is another story. Inside the Electric Circus, W. A. S. P. 's third album, remains a mild disappointment after the excellence of the first two (W. A. S. P. and The Last Command), but it nonetheless bears repeated listening and holds up better, twenty-plus years after its initial release, than most of the other metal released at that same time. Generally, the songs are a bit shallow, and the hooks aren't as catchy as those on W. A. S. P. 's first two efforts, but it still rocks, and occasionally (for example, on "Restless Gypsy") the album brings the same kind of shivers as those inspired by earlier songs like "The Last Command" or "L. O. V. E. Machine. " The Headless Children, on the other hand, represents a long musical stride forward for Blackie and the band. In emotional tone and musical form, it builds on the foundation formed by earlier successes such as "Sleeping in the Fire" and "Widowmaker" and is easily the most lyrically mature and musically ambitious album that W. A. S. P. had produced to that point. Stressing politics and emotions over sex, and frequently eschewing the standard binary song structure in favor of more complex arrangements, The Headless Children is the rarest of metal beasts: the heavy, head-banging album that actually has things to say *without* becoming pretentious, boring, or preachy. Short answer: This is a damned fine collection. . You can see a complete list of all Wasp discography, or go back to the Wasp tabs