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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dude!, 23 Nov 2001
This is simply a masterpiece. Crop circle sets an extremely high standard as opener, and not a single track fails to meet that standard. I cannot really classify the style of this album as anything other than biker-dope-rock. The riffs are excellent throughout and combined with the superb production they make an atmosphere that no other album can. The lyrics are worth listening to as well, always bizarre and sometimes profound. It is a diverse album with the heavier songs like Powertrip, the more melodic and insightful ballads Baby Gotterdamerung and Your Lies Become You, the sinister, atmospheric and entirely instrumental Goliath and the Vampires, the plain doped out rock that makes you want to shout "Get down!" like Bummer and See You in Hell and the songs which just plain rule. Defintely Monster Magnet's best album, i can't believe they aren't more well known in the UK when they are producing music of this standard. A must buy, if you like anything from the world of rock.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cashing Satan's cheques, indeed, 10 Sep 2004
Whilst many other stoner albums (including some of Monster Magnet's back catalogue) often seem repetitive, self-indulgent and somewhat uninspired, Powertrip sees the standard reset. Whilst sticking firmly to their rock/sci-fi/stoner roots, Dave Wyndorf and co have created a highly original album that is immediately accessible to fans of many styles of music, the main reason being that Dave knows how to write a good song. Whether it's a drug-fuelled epic (Bummer), a total out-and-out barnburner (Powertrip) or contemplative soulful number (Baby Gottedamerung), I can guarantee you will be humming the tune for weeks to come. The sheer originality of this album had me listening to it time and time again, and I normally bore easily.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Space Lord landing, 11 Jan 2007
In a decade better remembered for the rise and fall of grunge and the birth of nu-metal, this gigantic slab of unapologetically overblown sleaze-rock stuck out like a leather cod-piece amongst all the plaid-shirted relics and sportswear-clad jocks of the time. The New Jersey group's fourth album proper, Powertrip was a veritable feast of crotch-thrusting anthems and tongue-in-cheek egomania that finally propelled the band into the big league, leading to high profile support slots with Marilyn Manson and Aerosmith - as well as an incendiary performance at the Big Day Out in 1999.
Up until this point, Monster Magnet had been the archetypal stoner rock band, famed as much for spiking their audiences with hallucinogenic drugs as their addictive blend of Sabbath-esque riffs and 60s psychedelia. But following a series of fairly low key releases, Dave Wyndorf - frontman, Space Lord and self-styled `Bullgod' - decided to relocate to Las Vegas, where he penned the entire record. Previous effort, 1995's Dopes to Infinity, had spawned the ultra-catchy, Beavis and Butthead-endorsed hit, 'Negasonic Teenage Warhead', but this one really had it all. Colossal riffs, song-writing suss -- and a lyrical content that pointed to the fact that Wyndorf was not only someone who walked it like he talked it, but genuinely believed in rock `n' roll as the saviour of mankind. "I'm never gonna work another day in my life" he roared on the title track, seemingly without a trace of irony. On the album's opener, meanwhile, he demanded that listeners "Come to me, I'm your living crop circle, yeah!"
Musically, Powertrip marked a significant departure from the lo-fi stoner metal fare of earlier albums, taking the band in a far more commercially viable direction. While the band's trademark groove remained very much in tact, guitarist Ed Mundell's savage riffing was now coupled with some hugely danceable beats, and the whole thing was treated to a slick production job courtesy of Matt Hyde. Even the less bombastic tracks, the introspective 'Baby Gotterdammerung' and prescient closer, 'Your Lies Become You', sounded totally convincing and Powertrip was hailed by many as a modern masterpiece upon its original release in 1998.
Unfortunately, with their follow-up, 2000's God Says No, and 2004's largely forgettable Monolithic Baby! Monster Magnet failed to secure the universal acclaim Powertrip looked to set to bring them. But as far as big, bold, unreconstructed rawk music goes, any band would be hard pushed to top this, and as such it surely deserves a place in every rock fan's record collection.
Matt Pucci
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