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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: Dreamworks
Salesrank: 109730
Released: February 29, 2000 |
| Our Price: $10.99 |
| Used Price: $2.45 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Get Some Go Again Track Listing:
1. Illumination
2. Get Some Go Again
3. Monster
4. Love's So Heavy
5. Thinking Cap
6. Change It Up
7. I Go Day Glo
8. Are You Ready?
9. On the Day
10. You Let Yourself Down
11. Brother Interior
12. Hotter and Hotter
13. Illuminator
14. Money Train
Editorial Review:
With Get Some Go Again, everyone's favorite renaissance rocker redefines raw power and blinding intensity with tattooed muscle to spare. This album finds a tangibly rejuvenated Henry with a new Rollins Band lineup in tow, and Jim Wilson (guitar), Marcus Blake (bass), and Jason Mackenroth (drums) have inspired their firebrand vocalist to deliver his most feral work since Black Flag's glory days. From the explosive opening fusillade of "Illumination" to the Wayne Kramer-assisted, freeform fury of "L.A. Money Train," Get Some Go Again exudes purest energy. With Henry taking care of production there's no room for compromise--it's simply supercharged and brutally focused sonic aggression. Check out the blistering riff maelstrom of "Thinking Cap" or the overdriven romp through Thin Lizzy's "Are You Ready" (featuring the characteristic fret-board wizardry of the legendary ex-Lizzy guitar maestro Scott Gorham). Ultimately, this is an astonishing return to form, and the most essential Rollins recording to date. --Ian Fortnam
Get Some Go Again Reviews:
Rollins at his peak 
2009-12-15 - Being a long-time Rollins band fan (since the 80's) I've heard most of his stuff. I just recently picked this CD up and was quite happy with my purchase. This is one of his better recordings from this era (2000, I believe). Rollins sounds angry as usual, but restrained and articulate, the musicianship is top notch (different back-up band this time around) and the production is excellent (something that was sub-par on some of his earlier recordings).
The opening track is worth the price of the album alone. It's the musical equivalent of being punched in the mouth.
I Love This Man's Brain!
2008-01-29 - I know "Illumination" is the best known song on this CD and if your some kinda "purist" you'll think its played-out or...whatever....but there's one line from that song that Henry has given this world that will stay with me for the rest of my life:
" At times I wish I didnt know what I know now"
How many times have ya felt THAT?? Awesome.
Its a great album. Henry gotta new line-up for this one (Mother Superior) but they were straight forward rock. Really good musicians. Good jams all around.
Rollins Band - 'Get Some Go Again' (Dreamworks)
2005-10-28 - Henry Rollins returns with 'Get Some...' that features an all new band backing him,with Jim Wilson-guitar,Marcus Blake-bass and Jason Mackenroth-drums.Basically,just good underground alternative punk.A couple of guests on this CD are Thin Lizzy's guitarist Scott Gorham and former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.Tunes I liked best were "Love's So Heavy","I Go Day Glo","Let Yourself Down" and Thin Lizzy's "Are You Ready"(featuring Gorham).Very decent piece of work here,I thought.Just might appeal to fans of Primus,Melvins,Gone,Bad Brains and Faith No More.
smart punk 
2003-09-01 - Nearing mid-life and showing no signs of cooling down, Henry Rollins - he of semi-truck tire neck, bulldog brows and philosophical comedy rants (oh, and former vocalist for hardcore punk vibratos Black Flag) - takes his aging with a steady dose of black back-to-basics, thanks to accompaniment from California punks Mother Superior (a wild bunch that includes old axe-swingers from Thin Lizzy and The MC5). Literaryily speaking, Rollins' saber-toothed righteousness is at full steam, chewing pitilessly through a host of mod social issues (macho stupidity, domestic violence, the failings of love, physical frailty, inner strength, er... scented candles?). But the thrash-a-millisecond verve of his past has been tightened to taut focus; crunching and heaving power rock as synchronized, menacing and purposeful as the approaching footsteps of a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex. It's rockin' post-punk for aging fellers sans buffoonery, full of noncognito classic rock sturm and drang finessed with potent arena riffing as relentless as shellfire in a military target practice and scented with a sour spritz of Black Sabbath simplicity. Rarely does any of it sound remotely like anything else in the hard rock dungeon, that it is, it ignores all the trappings of mod-metal, qualifying GSGA as mindless jackhammering punk/metal at it's smartest.
All aboard, y'all... 
2003-06-04 - It's all been said already.
The Phoenix rises from the ashes, a new beginning etc.
And it's all true.
When this album came out, some friends and I went to see the tour in Sydney. At the end of the show we were so blown away we agreed to see the band next time it toured. While touring Australia, the band announced 3 days later that they would do a second show in Sydney at the end of the tour before heading back overseas. Needless to say, we all went to the second show and it was just as good, if not better. Now, I wont repeat what's already been said here about Get Some Go Again, but there is something I wanted to mention that hasn't been covered here properly yet.
The last track, LA Money Train, is an absolute gem. A loose, funky, jazz-style jam by the band and guest guitarist Wayne Kramer with Henry half-talking, half-singing along. The story of the 'LA Money train' and what the denizens of LA will do to get on in order to achieve "fame and financial excess" is vintage Rollins at his scathing best. The track is about 15 minutes long and features some great work by all involved.
If the rest of the record was mediocre I would say that this track alone validates the purchase of this album, however there are simply no dud tracks on the entire CD and as such it's a sharp piece of work and a definite winner.
