Monster Magnet Album: “Greatest Hits”

This is propably the best cd of the year. It features some very great songs: Tractor, Dopes to Infinity, Melt, Space Lord, Heads Explode, Dead Christmas etc... If you're a big fan of some great Stonerrock, than buy this one, it really shows how good they are.

Just wanted to mention in reference to the review below: The God Says No album was kind of off because the master tapes were swiped and the band had to start from scratch again, so as a 'quickie-demo-sketchpad' album, damn fine, but yes, not their best. Monolithic had some nice meaty riffs, but its hard to keep a band going after 10 years, tours, albums, etc. MM is one of my faves, especially for keeping the torch of sludge-metal alive since the early 90s when such a style was against the grundge grain. Interested fans should check out current Doom Metal bands such as Electric Wizard, Organe Goblin, High on Fire, Sleep, and its worth the time travel trip to check out Hawkwind, a direct influence on MM. Hawkwind also is significant for being the band Lemmy was in right before good old who know who.

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pretty good cd if you like hard music. 3 or 4 really good tunes, the rest i can live without. Got it at a great price however, you got to like that part.

I can't say that I'm that familiar with Monster Magnet. I've heard a song here and a song there and when I saw this "Greatest hits", I decided to give the band a chance. The first song "Tractor" makes me think that maybe I'm not that careful of what I'm buying since I don't like the song at all. The second track "Medicine" is slightly better but far from great. But as the third one "Dopes to infinity" sets off I begin to think that maybe this album is worth having after all. Of the following songs, I like in particular "Space lord", "Powertrip", "Bummer", "Dead Christmas" and "Kiss of the scorpion". Monster Magnet show to be capable of combining the 1970's rock (like Black Sabbath) with a more modern touch, and from time to time they do it really well. Some of the songs even bare connection to some stuff from the 1960's - just think of The Doors when you play "Dead Christmas". If you like Monster magnet, I bet you'll find The Hellacopters ("High visibility" and "By the grace of God") interesting.

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