Land of Greed, World of Need.
A Tribute to Embrace
This is a cover album of the classic DC hardcore band's self titled record (the one w/ Ian MacKaye of Fugazi/ Minor-Threat fame). The whole Embrace album is recreated, track for track, by 14 different hardcore and punk artists from around the world. The combination of artists appearing on this comp makes this album worth having alone. The fact that it is out of print makes this even more worth having. Just about every song is done well. Whether retaining the original feeling or completely remaking it with their own sound, all the bands manage to breathe new life into an oft-overlooked "classic" album. Some definite highlights are Lifetime's cover of "Money" and Sparkmarker's energetic version of "Do Not Consider Yourself Free", but nothing beats "Dance of Days" by Current, in my opinion. Current was a great band that took lots of influence from Embrace and put it to good use.
The album was the first release by the hardcore label Trustkill Records. Definitely check this one out!! and take the time to let me know what you think and which songs you think are best.
Tracks:
1. Give Me Back - Nations On Fire
2. Dance Of Days - Current
3. Building - Undertow
4. Past - Groundwork
5. Spoke - Outspoken
6. Do Not Consider Yourself Free - Sparkmarker
7. No More Pain - The Functions
8. I Wish I - Blindfold
9. Said Gun - Avail
10. Can't Forgive Rancid
11. Money - Lifetime
12. If I Never Thought About It - Process
13. End Of A Year - Farside
14. Last Song - Ashes
posted by blend77 at 11:30 PM
8 Comments:
great album; I liked it a lot; Specially liked the blindfold and rancid covers. I linked you back, cheers.
Thanks for checking in. This is the album I thought you might like. Thanks for the link too, I'll have more to put up later.
blindfold is from your country, yes?
Hi there dude, i like your blog looks great and have fine music on it.
...Keep up the good work
peace; mr.A
Thanks mr.A. come and visit often.
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Blindfold is indeed from my country, I had the privilage to see them once, an awesome show it was.
Cheers
Thanks for putting this up. I'm a huge fan of Embrace and was always a little dubious about the whole concept album thing--but it's a noble project and great tribute to a band that was only around for about a year.
Speaking of tributes, there's a new band from Albany, End of a Year, that's indebted to Embrace in all kinds of ways...they have an album out on Revelation, of all places. It's not bad.
thanks for the info man...glad you enjoyed it...
Yes, yes, I downloaded this, but haven't gotten a chance to listen to it. The concept for it is really cool though.
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