- Audio CD (13 Jan 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Road Runner
- ASIN: B000051T6K
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,012,908 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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You know you're on firmly metallic ground when an album's opening track is entitled "Keep The Sabbath Dream Alive", yet on Sons Of The Pioneers, hallucinogenic-enhanced rock cowboys the Workhouse Movement infuse their fundamental metal traditionalism with a myriad of cross-generic chops to quite excellent effect. "Gimme Some Skin" swaggers with Red Hot Chili Peppers' funk syncopations, "Zero" paraphrases the "Devil Went Down To Georgia" country clichis of the Charlie Daniels' Band and "Feel Like Bob Marley" doffs its stylistic cap to reggae's immortal prime mover while jazzing itself into an irresistible bebop groove. Elsewhere "Motown" utilises classic Detroit horns and "Charlie Don't Surf" broods with lashings of smouldering vintage violence. Consequently, the Workhouse Movement stand out from the increasingly formulaic American metal crowd because they repeatedly dare to be different, they seamlessly mesh priceless leftfield devices to old school stoner enthusiasm and as a direct result this appropriately entitled debut habitually hits the spot. --Ian Fortnam
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Format:Audio CD
Workhorse Movement appeared from nowhere, brought something new to the nu-metal table and promptly imploded because it wasn't quite 'nu' enough. This is a unique album in a see of clones and wannabes. The Workhorse Movement brought heavy and funky sounds back to metal when everyone was whinging about how bad their childhood was. They truly were being literal about 'Keeping the Sabbath Dream Alive'
Its uplifting, great for getting ready for a night out at your local rock establishment. They were awesome live too, which is only slightly captured with this studio effort, twin vocalists Cornbread and Myron bringing their distinctive lyrics to the chugging beats.
Sadly they are no more, true 'piuoneers' in this field lost due to lack of commercialism. They're set to return [or at least some of them] as the Dirty Americans with a more fuzzed up 70's vibe, but in the mean time chill out to this classic album.
Format:Audio CD
This is amazing CD, it r0cks the house down with great raps and BLOCK ROCKIN beats that go through your head. They are talented as hell and is one fab CD.
Format:Audio CD
Sometimes you buy an album and it sounds awful but over time it grows on you, and you find yourself hooked, sometimes you don't and you never listen to it again (or give it to your little sister). Sometimes you buy an album and it blows your head off and makes you laugh like a gibbering idiot. This is one of THOSE albums.
If your idea of a good party is Monster Magnet playing as the backing band to Public Enemy whilst possessed by the ghost of Jim Morrison... it might be.... then BUY THIS & buy it now.
Actually, just buy it anyway. Horns, chant along choruses, bus sized riffs, a smattering of reggae and jazzy bass lines are used to give each song a life of its own, and, despite this eclecticism the album sounds awesome played front to back, back to front, mixed up, played backwards, whilst suspended from a tree....... music lovers.... BUY THIS ALBUM.
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