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| Madonna | 
 enlarge | Artist: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Label: Merge Records
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 137799
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 29471
UPC: 036172947126
EAN: 0036172947126
ASIN: B00000K5B4
Release Date: October 19, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | And You Will Know Them... | | • | Mistakes & Regrets | | • | Totally Natural | | • | Blight Takes All | | • | Clair de Lune | | • | Flood of Red | | • | Children of the Hydra's Teeth | | • | Mark David Chapman | | • | Aged Dolls | | • | The Day the Air Turned Blue | | • | A Perfect Teenhood | | • | Sigh Your Children |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 One of the best of 1999 February 7, 2000
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I agree with previous reviewer it's slicker than the band's self-titled debut but that doesn't make it less. Overall I prefer the coherency of "Madonna" - in fact one of the miracles of this group is the way they make chaos coherent - even melodious. Another miracle is the drumming: best I've heard on any rock and roll record in years. Even the songs that didn't initially jump out at me have become favorites: for example I wasn't all that crazy about "Totally Natural" and then late one night I was driving down the freeway with two friends and when this song came on we all fell silent, listening as it started out slowly, then went into high-speed overdrive, getting even faster until it seemed to explode, then picked itself up from its own ashes and slowly, lyric by lyric, rebuilt itself into an even greater frenzy. It was like travelling through seven dimesions in the space of about four minutes. So what do these guys sound like? The only comparison I can make is the Sonic Youth of "Daydream Nation" - but that record and no other - and even then Sonic Youth has more of a high-end sound - less muscular and more offkey - than Trail of Dead. The only record of 1999 I like as much is Built to Spill's "Keep It Like A Secret" and as time goes on I think I'm beginning to prefer "Madonna".
a really great album November 4, 1999
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
although my opinion holds that this album doesn't quite reach the intensity and rawness of the first, it still has a unique and emphatic quality about it...the production is definitely better than the first, but i'm sure that's due to fact they had more time and better resources to record this album than the first (a rushed episode that involved smuggled studio time, mad shootouts with texas rangers and a run-in with brujeria; it was not a pretty sight)...conrad's writing (e.g. totally natural, mistakes & regrets) remains well crafted and catchy, and i actually think i prefer jason's writing (e.g. blight takes all, flood of red) on this album to the first...neil's writing debut with the band (mark david chapman) shows strong potential for further output in the future...(previous statements assume the vocalist of each track is it's creator...if not, my sincerest apologies)...i really have a difficult time believing the individual who wrote the previous review even listened to the same album..."pseudo rage against the machine?"...I surely don't know where that comes from...rage is completely different in the fact that their music normally works around grooves and scream-rap...and "hindi/hare krishna undertones?"...maybe for the album's artwork, but that has nothing to do with the music?...nothing in the album sounds eastern to me (and the "hydra" is from greek mythology, not hindu, in case that threw someone off)...overall, this album is really good and deserves a chance by anyone who digs on sonic youth, slint, fugazi, et al...and bring a helmet if you happen to catch their live show...solid objects seem to have a tendency to project themselves around the club in the band's presence...it's a phenomenon that has scientists baffled and art bell's still consorting with the darker forces of the universe to come to some resolution...beware, their title is somewhat of an epithet...
 Hogwash! October 6, 2000
8 out of 39 found this review helpful
Well, trail of Bread breaks out into the open with this one, a half-step away from MTV stardom. From the cliched song titles (perfect Teenhood? c'mon) to the crappy photoshop album cover, this emo band hits rock bottom at every turn. Eth music sounds like a less catchy Smashing Pumpkins (not a compliment!),and Sonic Youth should be able to sue these Texans, if Unwound does not beat them to it. oh, how these white boys have so much angst! I guess their fans just wish they could be as cool as the bands they worship. Did I already mention MTV?
ape January 12, 2000
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
at first. i must say that if you consider yourself a madonna-fan you should know what she has released and not. and it clearly says that madonna is not the artist but the album title. aywnubttod is a great band. love the drumming.
Intense September 15, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm surprised by the reviewer who says that Trail Of Dead cannot capture the intensity of their live shows on record. I saw them live recently, and they are still one of the most incredible bands I've ever seen live (and this was probably one of their tamer performances too). But I do think that Madonna captures the intensity of their live shows. Madonna is a lot harsher, chaotic, and noisy than their brilliant Source Tags & Codes, but the melodies and musicianship make for one of the best releases of 1999. Trail of Dead have been compared to Sonic Youth on this record, but they are in no way ripping SY off. Trail of Dead have more of an upfront hardcore-punk sound, are much angrier, and have less of an "avant-garde" or "art rock" slant. Again, the combination of melody and noise is brilliant; I was really suprised how intense the band sounds on this record. A few songs do fall apart ("Totally Natural" and the must-hear-to-believe "A Perfect Teenhood"), and the rest are played with much vigor and passion. The strings that are oh-so-prevalent on ST&C pop up here and there (including on some eerie interludes) and do seem to hint at what these guys were headed into for the future. And the album's closer ("Sigh Your Children") is so gorgeous, I wish it would have gone on much longer (two minutes is not enough). Trust me, see them live and buy the album. You'll be getting your money's worth both ways.
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