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Track Listings
| 1. Genital Grinder | |||
| 2. Maggot Colony | |||
| 3. Exhume to Consume | |||
| 4. Swarming Vulgar Mass of Infected Virulency | |||
| 5. Tools of The Trade | |||
| 6. Corporeal Jigsore Quandary | |||
| 7. Incarnate Solvent Abuse | |||
| 8. Buried Dreams | |||
| 9. No Love Lost | |||
| 10. Heartwork | |||
| 11. Keep on Rotting in The Free World | |||
| 12. R**k the Vote | |||
| 13. This Is Your Life | |||
| 14. Crepitating Bowel Erosion (Peel Session 02.01.89) | |||
| 15. Slash Dementia (Peel Session 02.01.89) | |||
| 16. Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites (Peel Session 02.01.89) | |||
| 17. Reek of Putrefaction (Peel Session 02.01.89) | |||
| 18. Empathological Necrotism (Peel Session 16.12.90) | |||
| 19. Foeticide (Peel Session 16.12.90) | |||
| 20. Fermenting Innards (Peel Session 16.12.90) | |||
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Jane Aland
VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Carcass were a band who at their best produced the greatest grindcore and death metal ever released, so why only 3 stars? Mainly, because Choice Cuts a bafflingly pointless exercise. Who needs a Carcass ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation album anyway? Some people prefer the early grind stuff, some people prefer the later more commercial stuff, and virtually everyone loves their middle Necroticism period, but even if you are a complete newcomer looking for a sampler you can get the ‘Wake Up and Smell the Carcass’ compilation, which as well as covering all eras of the bands history has the bonus of being comprised of non-album rarities. So – tracks 1-13 are mostly brilliant musically (though personally the Swansong era material isn’t to my tastes), but if you like this stuff buy the actual albums – Greatest Hits collections are for rock and pop bands, not extreme death metal!
Anyway – there is some purpose in the dedicated Carcass fan shelling out some money on this due to the bonus inclusion of the bands two John Peel sessions. Eight great tracks from the bands Symphonies of Sickness period, when the death metal riffs were starting to come through but the sound was still wonderfully grimy grindcore. Not massively different from the album versions it’s true, but historically these sessions were very important for gaining Carcass exposure (I can still remember thinking ‘what the hell was that noise!?!’ after hearing Foeticide on the radio back in 1990), and they are at least unavailable elsewhere on CD, unlike the rest of the tracks.
So, some rare Peel sessions and a nice long Ken Owen interview in the booklet make this a reasonably worthwhile purchase for committed fans of the band – if you’re new to Carcass and want a sampler ignore this and just get ‘Wake Up and Smell the Carcass’ instead.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By "aphexpagan"
Format:Audio CD
I dare you to find anything more shockingly brutal, visceral or just downright nauseating in the music world than this album (and I mean that in the best way possible!), for Carcass are easily the greatest Death/Gore Metal band to have ever plagued my soundwaves. For me, extreme metal seems to lead two 'very' big extremes in my oppinion of it. Firstly, it can jump almost any hurdle of rage, anger and sheer brutality you could ever want in a song. Secondly however, this genre can quickly get repetetive. You may think thats not enough to justify only 4 stars, but when songs start to lack that certain charm that 'Incarnated Solvent Abuse' and 'Buried Dreams' hold, it can quickly become a indrance on an albums quality.
This album as you've probably gathered, are some of their greatest hits. Unlike a great deal of their fans, I reckon that their more commercial songs were way better than their earlier, more extreme work, though 'Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious' was their best album. Though it didn't have the extremity of their earlier stuff, their discipline shined through leaving an excellent album in its wake. I was quite disappointed with the infamous peel sessions contained on the album, they dont seem to have the character of Carcass in them, just a small collection of average death metal tracks. Admittedly though, the main bulk of this album rightly deserves the title 'choice cuts'.
This album as you've probably gathered, are some of their greatest hits. Unlike a great deal of their fans, I reckon that their more commercial songs were way better than their earlier, more extreme work, though 'Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious' was their best album. Though it didn't have the extremity of their earlier stuff, their discipline shined through leaving an excellent album in its wake. I was quite disappointed with the infamous peel sessions contained on the album, they dont seem to have the character of Carcass in them, just a small collection of average death metal tracks. Admittedly though, the main bulk of this album rightly deserves the title 'choice cuts'.
3 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By Mark Lock
Format:Audio CD
Carcass' frontmen, had two major concerns with 'Choice Cuts'. One is that, despite the piercings and the spiky hairdos, people do not consider them "real" metallers. The other is that their father left them when they were 16. Actually, the two dovetail quite neatly as it was their father's departure that sent their family spiralling into poverty, thus presenting the band with their tough "street" background (as well as the lyrics to the bouncy, tribal "Swarming Vulgar Mass of Infected Virulency" and the maudlin, more gentle "Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites "). Musically speaking, though one line in "Empathological Necrotism "--"This discissed disarticulation I bludgeon as I ablate"--points to a hard-core influence, the filth and the fury of punk are not in evidence here. Rather, Carcass lean towards the sunny, chanting power-pop of the lighter Huntingdon Beach outfits. Nevertheless, with the title track and the aforementioned "Corporeal Jigsore Quandary", the band appeal directly to high-school outsiders, and address their perennial relationship problems with "Foeticide" and "Fermenting Innards ". They even find space for the comedy-horror of "Crepitating Bowel Erosion ". So, they're not as intense or enraged as Black Flag, or even Linkin Park, but their undeniably strong melodies will see them sell millions to the young and mildly peeved.
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