Monsters & Robots is Buckethead's best-selling record, and features one of his few songs that got a music video ("The Ballad of Buckethead," which features Les Claypool on vocals overtop distinctly non-Ballad instrumentation). A couple of tracks from Giant Robot NTT have been re-recorded here, too, sans their 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' voice clips ("Jowls," "Scapula"). Elsewhere, there are blistering guitar solos ("Jump Man," "Nun Chuka Kata") and funky numbers ("The Shape Vs Buckethead," "Stun Operator"). "Who Me?" features a gorgeous acoustic riff, but it is interspersed with groaning, moaning noises and only lasts two minutes. A good place for Buckethead beginners to start, as there is a wide variety of material and it's mostly solid, but the majority of his most incisive material is to be found elsewhere.
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