- Audio CD (20 July 1996)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sony Music
- ASIN: B0000076JD
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 44,555 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This it the album that I am currently listening to the most. While not all the songs appeal to me - X, Y & Z being a tad too flat for my liking, the other tracks more than make up for it, resulting in an album that is fast(mostly), thrashy and fun. This music makes me sing far too loud in my car. Tethys...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is an album that provides you with a glimpse into the mad world of PWEI and the sound of the late 80s/early 90s. This is a band that did not recieve the praise that they deserved and this album proves this from the poppies (un)official song of Italia 90 - Cicciolina to the head rocking, finger tapping Wise up!Sucker to Blade runner inspired Wake up!tTme to die. If you have not got any poppies material in your collection then this is a must.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Mostly ageless and infectious...
27 Sep 2002
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I listened to PWEI when they were "current", back in the late 80s and early 90s. Lamenting the fact that the stellar "Cure For Sanity" is no longer in print, I picked up this compilation in order to regain some of the tracks I'd lost when I lost my original tape of "Cure".
Although a few of the tracks here are dated (most notably "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me, Kill Me", "X, Y & Zee" and "92F (The 3rd Degree)"), what's impressive is how many of them are not. Even 10+ years later, PWEI is great dance music, great electronica, great grebo.
One need only listen to the lyrics from "Can U Dig It?" to learn who PWEI's major influences are - musically, they list AC/DC and Run DMC among others; their pop culture diet includes comic books, superheroes, sports and car racing. The PWEI sound is a frenetic, enthusiastic mix of all of the above - white British boys adding their quick-tongued, five-dollar-word version of rap to relentless live guitar, mad drums and decks.
Standout tracks on this compilation include "Wise Up Sucker", "Get The Girl and Kill The Baddies", and the hilarious account of James Brown's arrest, "Not Now James, We're Busy". "Wake Up Time To Die" is still one of my favorite songs of all time, lyrically smart and still danceable even as one of the slowest tracks on the album. No evening of techno party dance music would be complete without the ... closer, "Dance of the Mad."
In my mind, PWEI did for the industrial/dance sound of the 80s what Digital Underground did for rap: made it masterfully, made it fun, and made fans out of people who would otherwise ignore the entire genre. If your current music collection includes the Propellerheads, Moby, The Crystal Method, or the Chemical Brothers, PWEI is not to be missed. Also check out their "This is This..." compilation.
excellent album less warhol of a design that was more "grunge"
10 Dec 2011
everything about this band reminds me of FLUX and CRASS. great stuff! Wise Up Sucker blows away the more Avante Garde leaning sound with a precise edgy HIT.
A good compilation
11 July 2001
Format:Audio CD
I picked up this album while studying abroad in London. I owned "Cure for Sanity" and "This is the.." on cassette, and upgraded to CD. This is a good compilation that draws from all of PWEI's RCA discs. It's a shame that "Cure for Sanity" is out of print, because it features a much more mature and less dated sound than "This is the..." In any case, this disc is well worth the money. Standout tracks include "Dance of the Mad," "Cicciolina," "Can U Dig It," and "Harry Dean Stanton."
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