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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 334993
Released: November 2, 2004 |
| Our Price: $8.62 |
| Used Price: $1.98 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Emotive Track Listing:
1. Annihilation
2. Imagine
3. Peace Love and Understanding
4. What's Going On
5. Passive
6. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
7. People are People
8. Freedom of Choice
9. Let's Have A War
10. Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drum
11. When the Levee Breaks
12. Fiddle and the Drum
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2009-05-26 - Not as powerful as their full blown tool offering but a dedent fit into that category.
The unfortunate swan song of an otherwise excellent band. 
2007-06-10 - Although, depending on how you see it, it may not be an actual album, being that it's mostly covers and only one song is actually new. Since the site doesn't bump reviews & I took mine of the explicit version down, I may as well just post this here.
The album was released on the last election day as one of many political releases at the time. Propaganda aside, it's respectable that an artist can make covers that are drastically different from the original. Too bad they forgot about hooks and good songs for most part. The majority of this is like a bad Mer de Noms, pretty much like what this would be if you took out the album's romanticism and melody.
That being said, there are some saving grace moments that stop me from giving this an even lower score. "Fiddle and Drum" is done excellent, and it's pretty beautiful here. Shows what can happen with Maynard gone right. I actually like "Passive," even if it was supposed to be in the hands of the Tapeworm project that never saw the light of day. Some of these in addition are not too bad -- I like the "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" remake as well.
However, points get deducted in the mix with a horrid Depeche Mode remake, something I never thought I'd see coming from a band like this. Many moments here are failed and monotonous. They've done great before in covers. Remember "The Nurse Who Loved Me"? That was one of the group's better moments. To remind you how much the times suck, they also had to change optimistic gems like "Imagine" and "What's Goin' On" to dreary garbage. Not too many people I know even like this release, and I'm even talking Maynard fans. It's best off forgotten and getting as many copies in the used CD bin as the unjustly maligned R.E.M.'s Monster.
I don't think we should forget about APC, just this album. Go for the first two records; those are infinitely better than this.
