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Pop Will Eat Itself: Wise Up Suckers

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What can you say about a band who during the course of their career were reputed to have sold more t-shirts than they did combined album and single sales? A band that fitted into the musical landscape of the 80’s and 90’s so well yet still stick out like a rusty nail jammed up your left nostril. Using of artwork and logo’s as a marketing tool in a manner ahead of their time PWEI left a caustic stain on the face of the recording industry, in effect beating it at its own game.

'Wise Up Suckers' sees PWEI collecting together 17 of their best tracks released through their career that manage to combine elements of dub and house stuck together with a rock exterior. Every track on this compilation makes you want to dance - every track is a classic in its own right, showing the development of the band through their career. ‘Wake Up Time To Die’ and ‘Wise Up Sucker’ fill you with a sense of overpowering rebellion and aggression whilst at the other extreme ‘Cicciolina’ and ‘Inject Me’ just makes you want to sit down and dream of crazy electronic sheep.

  • Pop Will Eat Itself 7 / 10
Words: shays

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Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up Suckers

Brilliant, brilliant band. Groundbreaking at the time, as forward thinking as the KLF in their use of samples and pop culture their marriage of dance beats and rock guitars almost 15 years ago. but.."wise up suckers" is a crap cash-in compilation CD with no thought or band involvement in its creation. After all, the first thing Richard of PWEI heard about this albums existence was when i bumped into him in a record shop and asked him about it.Why not choose one of their albums that is actually good and influential, like say "this is this" or "cure for sanity"?? This album is a poorly thought out bag of shit, no matter how good the music is.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 23 Jul '02, 23:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up Suckers

yeah granted it has absolutely no credability but the songs on it are very good so how can it be a bag of shit?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 24 Jul '02, 19:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up Suckers

got to agree its a great collection of songs
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 25 Jul '02, 20:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up Suckers

....because it's a thoughtless, brainless cheap and tacky cash-in done behind the bands back on a shoestring by someone whose never loved the bands music. That's how come it's a bag of sh!t.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 30 Jul '02, 15:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up Suckers

but the songs are great surely that is more important?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 31 Jul '02, 22:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply