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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAmon Duul II YetiBuldozer Pljuni Istini U OciThis album just about defines revolutionary. It was released in Communist Yugoslavia, and was seen as highly offensive. It's impossible to get all of this without understanding the lyrics (but if you check out this album on progarchives.com, some kind reviewers have explained the meanings of the lyrics for us folks who aren't in the know). The music itself is equally great, if not better. The songs dwell on such themes as a bulldozer that ate beef soup, only to be attacked by an angry bull mad that the bulldozer ate his mama (Sta To Radis Buldozeru Jeden). Blues Gnjus is about a man who loves all creatures, and so lets all sorts of bacteria into his head, getting himself deathly sick. The song ends with him vomiting. The last two songs are satires of love (you have to love the title: Yes My Baby, No). The opening song is a spoken word track about a man who's new to a town, and so is asking the friendly townspeople where is the best place to commit suicide. Pleasant. The music itself is a mix of avant-garde, psychedelia, blues, and a little bit of everything else, all pulled off to perfection. The vocals are strange and off-putting, but ultimately rewarding. This stands as one of the greatest albums ever released, and certainly a landmark album coming from a Communist country. Their follow-up album is great as well, but this one really takes the cake. Essential!Can Tago MagoCan Ege Bamyasi4.5 superbCan Monster Movie4.0 excellentTangerine Dream PhaedraUlver Nattens MadrigalLet me get this out of the way before I actually focus on the album: I am not a black metal fan in any way shape or form. I bought this album for two reasons: 1) I was curious what the epitome of Black Metal sounded like and 2) I liked the cover. Not very inspired reasons, really. Ulver, in the circles of music I follow, are much more highly regarded for Perdition City and those style albums than their Black Metal trilogy. But nevermind all of that, because this album is fantastic. I was completely blown away. The first time I heard it, I hated the production. The second time, it failed to bother me at all. I was able to feel the emotion, the energy, and the intelligence that characterize this music. Raw, primordial, and primitive, just like the werewolf around which the concept revolves. Perfect at what it does, in short. Black Metal isn't my style, but this album proves the exception to that rule. And about the concept. Ignore it. You probably don't speak Norwegian, and you can barely hear the vocals, anyway. Just listen to... no, just FEEL the music. It's an adrenaline rush. In all honesty, I expected to buy this album for the experience and brush it off with a two star rating. On the main website I write reviews for, where this album is included solely because it's by the same band as the one that released Perdition City, I will give it a two because it doesn't fit the style of that site. But here, I can safely give it four stars, because that's what it deserves.3.0 goodUlver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
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