Reload [Import]

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Tan of skin and furry of chest, Tom Jones has been wowing the crowds since he first walked away from the green, green grass of his Welsh home and into the hearts of housewives the world over. Jones rode the 1990s kitsch revival and, with the release of 1999's Reload, proved himself to be one of the music industry's most powerful and entertaining survivors. A collection of duets and collaborations with various contemporary stars of pop, rock, and indie music (Robbie Williams, the Stereophonics, the Cardigans, and Catatonia's Cerys Matthews, to name a few), Reload put Jones back on the musical map for a whole new generation of music fans. Highlights here include his cover of Portishead's "All Mine" with the Divine Comedy, his exuberant take on "Mama Told Me Not to Come" with the Stereophonics, and a playful "Are You Gonna Go My Way" with Williams. --Ted Kord --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Album Description
1999 covers album by the bombastic Welsh pop vocalist. Most of the tracks are hits from '80s & '90s, and each is a collaboration with a current top act, including Robbie Williams, Barenaked Ladies, Natalie Imbruglia, Van Morrison, The Pretenders, Stereoph --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Reload, Music, Tom Jones, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop, Pop Vocals, Pop/Rock, Vocal, Wales

Reload
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One Star Because it is the lowest available

Keith Coady is half right

Metallica detractors can piss in the wind for all I care...

Not terrible

Should Have Been Called Load Lite

Reload
Metallica
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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ASIN: B000002HRE
Release Date: 1997-11-18

Tracks:

Fuel
The Memory Remains
Devil's Dance
The Unforgiven ll
Better Than You
Slither
Carpe Diem Baby
Bad Seed
Where The Wild Things Are
Prince Charming
Low Man's Lyric
Attitude
Fixxxer

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For many heavy metal fans, Metallica epitomizes the genre, especially for those listeners who remember the band's fast-and-furious 1983 debut, Kill 'Em All. As a result, their continued foray into a more stripped-down, laid-back sound with this album has met a mixed response. However, there's enough innovation and just plain strange stuff on this album to make it worth a listen. The creepy "The Memory Remains" is perfectly accentuated by Marianne Faithfull's backing vocals, and "Where the Wild Things Are" features the multilayered vocals and guitars that Metallica is famous for, albeit at about half their usual speed. The opening ("Fuel") and closing ("Fixxxer") tracks are especially strong, and intermixed with some slower, country-inflected tunes are the obnoxious rockers that made Metallica the long-running success they are. --Genevieve Williams

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One Star Because it is the lowest available.......2007-05-27

I don't think Metallica should use the prefix "Metal" in their name anymore. This is more like "Grungtalica" or worse "Post-Grungetalica" or the more popular title "Alternica." This title is not even metal, with the exception of the only good song "Fuel." If you want to get a good metal/thrash album, get Metallica's first four albums. If you really want something from the "nineties," get Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth or get the Pantera albums. Even the Iron maiden albums with Blaze Bayle are ten times better than this garbage. Just do yourself a favor and do NOT get this album. If you really want Fuel, buy it on I-tunes or download it or something, just don't buy this album.

Keith Coady is half right.......2007-04-17

This album was a complete letdown. Load was an excellent hard rocking cd and I had faith that this band didnt all together suck after the black album....well this album wasnt that great. I dont like the orignal Unforgiven, so why would I like part 2? The rest of the album did have weird stuff, it didnt pan out but at least they tried it. Ill give it an anther spin to see how it goes.

Metallica detractors can piss in the wind for all I care..........2007-04-10

Load is my favorite Metallica album, and Reload, its cousin, is almost just as good. I play this one almost as much as Load, and it contains some of Metallica's greatest songs. The opener, Fuel, is a scorcher, and I love The Memory Remains. Marianne Faithful's vocal really does add to the song. The Unforgiven II is better than the original, with some of the most moving, powerful lyrics of Hetfield's career. The closer, Fixxxer, is another great Metallica epic, but the song I deeply admire here is Low Man's Lyric. It's the most moving, haunting song Metallica has ever recorded, with the hurdy gurdy giving the song an immense amount of depth that most rock stars wish they had. Hetfield's lyrics here are as good as anything he's ever written, and the song is a true classic which deserves to be better known. For those who condemn this album as some sort of "sellout", screw off. I find it ridiculous when people want the Metallica of old, the Kill 'em All Metallica. That Metallica is gone. The band has grown up. We should admire Metallica for doing things their way, just like many great artists have done before them and after them. When they did "go back" to their thrash roots with St. Anger, it was pretty much a disaster. That album isn't as awful as many think it is (there are a few good songs there), but it pissed off those very fans that it was supposed to please. Metallica should keep expanding their sound. The fact that they're still going when other bands from the 1990's have gone away is something they should be proud of. Metallica rules, and all their albums (even Anger) have something worthwhile in them. This is one of their best, period...

Not terrible.......2007-03-21

Look I am with most people on here who would love to see Metallica come out with another And Justice for All or my personal favorite: Ride the Lightning. Re-Load and its cousin Load are not bad albums in the big scheme of things. What else was popular in 97? Backstreet Boys? Unforgiven II is not a bad song (ironically in..2001? Megadeth release "Return to Hanger". Favorite track would be Fixxxer. Carpe Diem Baby and Low Man's Lyrics are also solid tracks in my opinion. Bottom line, Re-Load is not a bad album, just a sub-par Metallica album and poor metal album. At least it has guitar solos. My biggest beef with St. Anger was the waste of Kirk Hammett, but thats another review.

Should Have Been Called Load Lite.......2007-03-13

This cd is basically a watered down Load. Most of the cd is filler and there is only like three decent songs on the whole cd. My favorites are The Unforgiven 2, Where the Wild Things Are, and Low Man's Lyric. Fuel and The Memory Remains are among the worst songs of Metallica's hit singles.

In Metallica's whole studio album catalog this ranks near the bottom, probably seventh out of the eight they released. Only St. Anger is worse than this overall. At least this does have a few decent songs.

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Great And Varied Collaborative Album
NOT JUST A SHLOCK ARTIST
and they laughed at pat boone?
This ain't yo Mama's Tom Jones, Baby!

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Tom Jones
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ASIN: B00002DEQQ
Release Date: 1999-09-27

Tracks:

Burning Down The House-With The Cardigans
Mama Told Me Not To Come-With Stereophonics
Are You Gonna Go My Way-With Robbie Williams
All Mine-With Divine Comedy
Sunny Afternoon-With Space
I'm Left You're Right She's Gone-With James Dean Bradfield
Sexbomb-With Mousse T
You Need Love Like I Do-With Heather Small
Looking Out My Window-With James Taylor Quartet
Sometimes We Cry-With Van Morrison
Lust For Life-With The Pretenders
Little Green Bag-With Barenaked Ladies
Ain't That A Lot Of Love-With Simply Red
She Drives Me Crazy-With Zucchero
Never Tear Us Apart-With Natalie Imbruglia
Baby It's Cold Outside-With Cerys From Catatonia
Motherless Child-With Portishead

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Tan of skin and furry of chest, Tom Jones has been wowing the crowds since he first walked away from the green, green grass of his Welsh home and into the hearts of housewives the world over. Jones rode the 1990s kitsch revival and, with the release of 1999's Reload, proved himself to be one of the music industry's most powerful and entertaining survivors. A collection of duets and collaborations with various contemporary stars of pop, rock, and indie music (Robbie Williams, the Stereophonics, the Cardigans, and Catatonia's Cerys Matthews, to name a few), Reload put Jones back on the musical map for a whole new generation of music fans. Highlights here include his cover of Portishead's "All Mine" with the Divine Comedy, his exuberant take on "Mama Told Me Not to Come" with the Stereophonics, and a playful "Are You Gonna Go My Way" with Williams. --Ted Kord

Album Description

1999 covers album by the bombastic Welsh pop vocalist. Most of the tracks are hits from '80s & '90s, and each is a collaboration with a current top act, including Robbie Williams, Barenaked Ladies, Natalie Imbruglia, Van Morrison, The Pretenders, Stereophonics, Divine Comedy, Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield, Cardigans, James Taylor Quartet, Mousse T, Portishead and Catatonia's female vocalist Cerys Matthews. Gut Records.

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No USA Release Date Scheduled! this 1999 Duets CD Includes Guest Spots by Van Morrison, Chrissie Hynde, Zuchero and Many More.

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full tracks.......2007-06-26

1. Burning Down The House (With The Cardigans)~~~2. Mama Told Me Not To Come (With Stereophonics)~~~3. Are You Gonna Go My Way (With Robbie Williams)~~~4. All Mine (With The Divine Comedy)~~~5. Sunny Afternoon (With Space)~~~6. I'm Left You're Right She's Gone (With James Dean Bradfield)~~~7. Sexbomb (With Mousse T)~~~8. You Need Love Like I Do (With Heather Small)~~~9. Looking Out My Window (With James Taylor Quartet)~~~10. Sometimes We Cry (With Van Morrison)~~~11. Lust For Life (With The Pretenders)~~~12. Little Green Bag (With Barenaked Ladies)~~~13. Ain't That A Lot Of Love (With Simply Red)~~~14. She Drives Me Crazy (With Zucchero)~~~15. Never Tear Us Apart (With Natalie Imbruglia)~~~16. Baby It's Cold Outside (With Cerys Matthews)~~~17. Motherless Child (With Portishead.

Great And Varied Collaborative Album.......2004-10-17

Each track on "Reload" pairs the legendary Tom Jones with a different collaborator on a different cover song, spanning a variety of styles from ballads to techno-ish dance type tracks to driving hard rock. Not a single bad song on the album, but some definately take precedence over others. Among the highlights are the lightening power rock track "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" with Robbie Williams; the honeymoon-ready and rhythmically-mesmerising "Sexbomb" with Mousse T.; percussiony rocker "You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone" with James Dean Bradfield, the fast-paced "You Need Love Like I Do" with the unique, husky vocals of Heather Small; and the album's great opener, "Burnin' Down The House" with the Cardigans. And is it just me, or does anybody else out there think "Mama Told Me Not To Come" (with the Stereophonics) should be retroactively included on the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" soundtrack? And tying everything together, the inimitable soaring baritone vocals of Tom Jones himself.

One of the better albums of Jones's career; a solid nine out of ten.

NOT JUST A SHLOCK ARTIST.......2003-12-12

here's MY experience with this album: the guy at the record shop told me: buy this for your old lady. he knew she liked elvis and other acts of that kind, so i did. i brought it home, she listened to it and every track she heard she said: aw i don't know, this isn't quite what i like. this isn't the tom jones i remember. and her fifteen-year-old daughter sitting beside her was going: oooh tom jones- cool. and every track she was listening to she was going, oooh i must have this -- so naturally she made about 15 copies for herself and all her friends. my old lady never warmed to the thing, and gave it back to me. i could never STAND tom jones, so i didn't listen to the record all that often, if at all. then i got mick jagger's "angel at the doorway", and i thought: what a let-down. tom jones did a better job than this. i mean, EVEN tom jones. so i picked the cd back out from the never-listen-to-this-****-bin i'd consigned it to and hey, bingo! it really gooo-roooved. i've been enjoying it tremendously ever since, i've got the whole thing inside my imac and come across it frequenly without ever pressing the "get rid of this"-button. mick jagger will have to try really hard to catch up! so if you guys in america haven't got this cd on the market as a regular day-to-day available everywhere item, boy, you're really missing out on something. it's the only one of its kind that i know that actually works, where a semi-past it male bullfrog type of singer gets a new lease of life through a cooperation with younger artists. the music, the arrangements, and the actual songs are great too, ranging from an obscure elvis track to gospel, from modern pop to frivolous tin pan alley. and it actually works, it's fun to listen to. i could never understand why frank zappa, of all people, the most exacting task-master of american pop, liked tom jones but here it's obvious: he's a tremendous musician and singer, not just a shlock artist!

and they laughed at pat boone?.......2003-11-06

The hoary Welsh geezer warbler with gold medallions clanging off his hairy barrels and more socks in his drawers than his er... drawers, makes a slight return for this oddity who's-who? collaboration collection of curious power-Vegas deconstructed mod-pop and rock hits. Folks like the Cardigans, Stereophonics and Van Morrison step in to help the dim man's Otis Redding crank up the testerone croak enunciation suitably for a few great squealing, squalling, cocks-out, huge-bollocked, grunting, sweat-stained and throbbing mucho-macho show tune duet covers. Rarely does Jonesy invigorate the songs of others (Are You Gonna Go My Way?, Burning Down the House, Sexbomb, Little Green Bag); rather, it's the generous miasma of straight-faced, carbon-dated braggadocio - grunts, groans, whoos! hahs! - tossed like croutons in his seizure salad of reanimated retirement home mojo histrionics that make this a hoot to hear. Like the social security sex monster on show here, Reload shakes and moans admirably top and bottom, but the midsection is a saggy mess of embarrassing dough (Sunny Afternoon, I'm Left You're Right, You Need Love Like I Do, Looking Out My Window). A simple work like Portishead's B-movie electronica hit All Mine completely sinks him (with cohorts Divine Comedy), though he and fellow antique Van Morrison fare no better with the jumbo leprechaun's Sometimes We Cry - deconstructed here as a sniggly wad of boozey retro-cheese. But when it's bad, it's so bad it's a scream. Look no further than Grones' wagging, insipid and ultimately hilarious neuter of David Bowie and Iggy Pop's old glam/punk Lust For Life. Even Chrissie Hynde's cranky harp and hardened croak aren't strong enough to stifle Jone's straight-laced emasculation - or the resulting giggles. "Of course, I've had it in the ear before," he shudders, hips a jiggling and sock a wiggling. Thanks to Reload, you'll get it in the ear too, over and over again. What fun! Mum, if she isn't busy tossing her knickers at the CD player, will be proud.

This ain't yo Mama's Tom Jones, Baby!.......2003-06-02

Tom Jones is always fantabulous, but this time he brought some friends along to the party! These aren't cheesy covers, oh no! Personal highlights are Lust for life w/ The Pretenders, Little Green Bag w/ Barenaked Ladies, and Sometimes We Cry w/ Van Morrison. Reload is wonderful and if you have a brain in your head, you'll buy yourself a copy.

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Great And Varied Collaborative Album
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Reload
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ASIN: B00008BX4B
Release Date: 2003-03-04

Tracks:

Burning Down the House - The Cardigans
Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Stereophonics
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Tom Jones
All Mine - The Divine Comedy
Sunny Afternoon - Space
I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone - James Dean Bradfield
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Ain't That a Lot of Love - Simply Red
She Drives Me Crazy - Tom Jones
Never Tear Us Apart - Natalie Imbruglia
Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones
Motherless Child - Portishead
Sexbomb [Peppermint Disco Radio Mix] - Mousse T. Vs Hot 'N' Juicy
You Need Love Like I Do [7th District Radio Mix] - Heather Small

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Album Description

Album Details

Limited edition, Christmas 2000 version includes two bonus tracks.

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full tracks.......2007-06-26

Great And Varied Collaborative Album.......2004-10-17

NOT JUST A SHLOCK ARTIST.......2003-12-12

and they laughed at pat boone?.......2003-11-06

This ain't yo Mama's Tom Jones, Baby!.......2003-06-02

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Despite missing bullets,
Get ready to be Energized!
50/50
Great Remixes

Reload! Frankie: The Whole 12 Inches
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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ASIN: B00000DF92
Release Date: 1998-10-20

Tracks:

Relax (New York Mix)
Relax (Ollie J Mix)
Relax (Jam & Spoon Trip-O-Matic Fairy Tale Mix)
Two Tribes (Carnage Mix)
Two Tribes (Intermission Legend Mix)
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Pleasurefix Mix)
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Brothers In Rhythm Rollercoaster Mix)
Rage Hard (Young Person's Guide Into The 12 Inch Mix)
Warriors Of The Wasteland (Twelve Wild Disciples Mix)

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Despite missing bullets,.......2003-05-28

By C.S.

Every era has a one- hit wonder and / or an artist that had a short term shelf life but long- standing impact. Jimi Hendrix is a perfect 1960's case and point.
In the 1980's that honor belongs to the second version of the "Fab Four" from Liverpool, Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
With their ambient synths, throbbing bass lines and efficient, powerful guitar riffs, the group hit big off their first of only two LP's they released "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" with the mega- hits " Relax", banned by many outlets for the suggestive sexual overtones,and the politically charged anthem "Two Tribes".
Remixes became a big marketing tool during the New Wave era and FGTH certainly took full advantage. Some of that is captured on the " Re- Load" compilation.
Remix LP's are always risky business if you make the mistake of lulling the crowd asleep with re- works that offer little difference in arrangement. Frankie avoids that fate on the first two versions of "Relax",but by the third re- work the overkill has set in. No doubt the third version could have been replaced if at worst by the first re- mix that became public knowledge after the album cut took off. After such a rousing start, a seperate high -quality Frankie track also would have worked well here.
The first of the mixes to "Two Tribes",The Carnage Mix,is well done while the second could have easily been thrown out,though by a scant margin it passes for being listenable.
But for sheer excitement,the band's best track outside of the aformentioned hits lie in both re-makes to the title song to the first album, "Welcome to the Pleasuredome". Both en-capsulate the 80'S and 1990'eras very eficiently and enhance the original the way a re-mix should.
The "Warriors of the Wasteland" mix,taken from the original version from the second record "Liverpool", offers nothing new except to one that has never laid ears on the song and/ or a die- hard fan that failed to obtain the mix upon initial release and would like to add this version to fill out their Frankie library. On the plus side,the song duration on the "Re-Load" version is far shorter than the 11 minute mix on vinyl that was originally released in 1986, but upon review the long version wasnt particularly earth -shattering either! In all likelihood a more exciting version of this track that easily surpasses either one of the takes on this record is in existence.

"Re- Load" re- boots itself back into gear at album's end with the solid "Rage Hard" mix,though it does fade out abruptly just when the listener is about to sink their teeth into the well- structured bridge of the song that made the original recording so striking. This is another song that should have had more space reserved for a second take that would have bolstered the strength of this compilation. Despite some of the gaps here, take into consideation that compilations,whether it is a greatest hits deal or a remix collection like this one, are often times done by record companies wihout any artist input. More than likely,one would believe the band would crafted "Re Load" a bit differently than the final product here, but all of this testimony is purely speculative at best.
Nevertheless, there are enough highlights here to make it a decent buy just off the "Welcome To the Pleasuredome" mixes, though in addition it may not be a bad idea for consumers to skulk around to find alternative re-mixes. A few of the things that were mentioned in assessing "Re- Load" preclude this from being a five star outing that it could have been,like a re-mix for un-released "Liverpool track " Lunar Bay" being another example.
Therefore "Re Load" is like a tea bag dipped in hot water the second time - it still tastes like tea, but the flavor is a little less rich than the first cup. It recieves a low-end three(3) star rating.

C.S. 5-27- 2003

Get ready to be Energized!.......2002-01-20

From the moment you pop in this CD you will start to move your feet. Frankie's biggest hits have gone through a make over and the result is mindblowing. Relax, Two Tribes and Welcome to the pleasuredoom all take on new meaning with this remix CD. If you love to dance, you'll love Reload. My favorite track is the 12 inch guide of Rage hard, funny, yet sentual and full of beat. A great CD for parties and dancing.

50/50.......2000-08-01

The original remixes from the eighties are the most original. I have always admired FGTH for their remixes which were an important aspect of their image: "remixing is a work of art, reforming a song into a new one". This means that all the mixes are different. Well the old ones I mean the 90's remixes are based on the rigid EuroHouse formula. The problem with this CD is it diversity. One half of the cd contains dance remixes from the nineties, the other half consists of some original mixes which most of us enjoy most. If you like new mixes you'd better get "Club Mixes 2000" . If you like the eighties (original) mixes than you MUST get "Twelve Inches".Conclusion: Either way you'd probably like only half of this cd..

Great Remixes.......1999-07-07

Excellent variations on familiar songs. Although you may not want to listen through the whole album at once since doing so may be boring (there are several versions of one song in a row), you'll probably easily locate you favorite. I, for one, like some of the remixes almost better than the originals.

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Reload! Frankie: The Whole 12 Inches
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ASIN: B00004WA0N
Release Date: 2000-08-01

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Relax (New York Mix)
Relax (Ollie J Mix)
Relax (Jam & Spoon Trip-O-Matic Fairy Tale Mix)
Two Tribes (Carnage Mix)
Two Tribes (Intermission Legend Mix)
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Pleasurefix Mix)
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Digi Pack Reissue with Bonus Tracks.

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Greatest Album Ever Made.
Dark Underground Dance Dust Sparkles Imagination
Ob-Selon Minos
Ob-Selon Minos
And the tide rolled back...

A Collection of Short Stories
Reload
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ASIN: B000005ATE
Release Date: 1997-02-18

Tracks:

Teq
Peschi
Ahn
Rota Link
1624 Try 621
Ev-I-Loy
Akzinor
Mosh
Ehn
Psychophylaxis
Le Soleil Et La Mer
The Enlightenment
Event Horizon

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Greatest Album Ever Made........2005-05-18

I've been listening to music steadily since, oh, about 1972 or so. While Joy Division will forever remain my Greatest Band To Ever Walk The Face Of The Earth, and "Unknown Pleasures" will probably always battle it out for my Greatest Album Ever Made, this Reload album is probably it.

There are certain times in one's life when one simply has to sit back staggered in stupified amazement at the power of the creativity of the human mind - and this album has me doing just that. I wouldn't change a single note of it. Produced in 1993 during what was probably the most fertile period for Electronic Music ever, this release more than any blew open the barriers of what could be considered "Techno" music - as if something this stylistically varied could ever be constrained by such a term! - just an unbelievably meticulously crafted soundscape (remember when "album" meant a flowing contiguous sequence of tracks? This practically defines the term) from the God-like Mark Pritchard (with some help from Tom Middleton, of course). It's the soundtrack to the SciFi movie that was never made, the sonic equivalent to "Blade Runner" (all those well-selected samples!). From the languid Sunny Ibiza-friendly traipse that is "La Soleil Et La Mer" to the brutal sonic attack of "Event Horizon" and everywhere in between, this album covers a vast sonic landscape without ever losing focus. Utter genius.

Techno has produced its share of 5-star albums over the years - but this one tops them all. 5 stars almost seems silly to rate this as - there's got to be a rating system for something that towers over everything else. As Spinal Tap once said - "This one goes to 11!"

Dark Underground Dance Dust Sparkles Imagination.......2003-07-30

A Collection of Short Stories has been my all time favourite album since it first drifted, twisted and turned its way down my ear canal to stimulate the particles in my brain. This album dosn't have a catagory, this album is unique, brave and does not fit in anywhere other than inside your own head. I have never had my emotions manipulated in such a way, I am a dancer too and anyone who dances from the heart will know what this did to them. You'll find after you've owned it for a few years you'll keep going back to it again and again. The trouble with that though is you will feel a sense of sadness of what once was, and nothing has come close since, nothing a big sound system dosn't cure though! What absolutely blew me away by this music and still does today, is what equipment on earth did they use to make it?

Other music I listened to since Reload waltzed into my life: Autechre, Aphex Twin, Future Sound of London, Biosphere, Leftfield, another one that came out before most of the world was ready for it was Speedy J with Public Energy no.1, The Sabres of Paradise, Jam & Spoon and Luke Slater, later moving on to DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Portishead, Chemical Brothers, Finley Quay and then Zero 7.

You need A Collection of Short Stories like we all need food.

Ob-Selon Minos.......2001-03-25

I remember ben and myself starting out in our record distribution days, it was july/august 92 if i recollect when we drove up to somerset that day to meet mark and tom we sat in the studio most of the day and just watched them lay down what became known as mosh track 8 of this cd. Later ben and myself would spin this particular track at our club nights and look at each other with a satisfied grin as peoples heads exploded, as that gurgling subterranean bassline dropped in. At that time we were "Pulse", tom(2nd half of reload) and another weird guy by the name of richard were "fizzbomb" two rivalling club nights being held in nearby towns in cornwall, tom and richard did'nt last too long, richard moved on and became the aphex twin without the twin...tom hooked up with mark and became reload (amongst other names, global communication, jedi knights etc...)ben and I migrated west and settled in california, what moved me to write a review about this after such a deep close interest and after so long for me, is the fact that even to date it still stirs emotion enough for people to write five star reviews. This was truly a point where things really took off but never went anywhere, just sort of floated around the room, if it wasnt for marks shyness and toms pretentious attitude the unreleased DAT of stuff i am looking at right now would be out for people to enjoy, and if we could have seen past our growing pains and our fronts we could have really carried things a lot further, as it is this release is timeless and borders on genius, its not techno, techno is a word juan atkins came up with without realizing the impact it would make....this is technology music, electronic musical soundscapes painted with emotion. i think that might work better is that ok derrick?

Ob-Selon Minos.......2001-03-25

And the tide rolled back..........2000-05-08

In Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's epic _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_, he writes about the spirit of the 1960s as being like riding the crest of a wave. And, as he notes from his Vegas hotel room in the dark days of Nixon, he says you can almost look out there toward the hills near Vegas and see where the wave broke and rolled away, never to be seen again. Well, that reminds me a lot of "A Collection of Short Stories". I look at this release as being a similar point in techno, rave, and ambient techno music where that wave crested and then rolled back into the depths again, never again to reach such a height. This beautiful release is perhaps the pinnacle of all of that. Curiously little-known outside of the underground, this shows mid-90s electronic music attempting to reach farther than it had as just background music for a wild night out. Yes, there are beats, and yes, there are trippy ambiences here...but the sequencing and overall composition goes so far beyond niteclub and rave fare, almost seeming like some vast epic soundtrack for some film that doesn't exist. And, in fact, it is...as the booklet included contains a series of short stories that're cued to go with the tracks on this work. Definitely in the vein of The Orb, or the KLF's "Chill Out", this album takes their ideas and runs so much farther afield with them that it's almost achingly-sad to listen to it today, contemplating where this music might've gone had the audience been somewhat more sympathetic to such delicious complexity. I will say, though, that if you say you 'know' techno, ambient, rave, etc and you don't know this release, then you just simply don't know, period. Get it, listen, read along, and then shed a tear for where the scene _might have_ gone if it had had the wherewithall to fully embrace something this challenging. A critical, important, vital release.