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Their first album was good fun, with a handful of standout tracks. This, their second, was far, far better. A fantastic dark vibe, similar to, say, AIC's Dirt, and tremendous songwriting - songs which make the hairs on your neck stand up - the wah'ed guitar looping round the thick riff of Wisteria, the head-down adrenaline of Mama, Moses and Me, the psychedelic flow of Hogwallow - ace. Bittersweet choruses, great vocals, top-notch guitar playing, it's all here. A far superior album to lots of the benchmark grunge albums - as good as STP's Purple, better than Pearl Jam's Ten, not patchy like Superunknown... | Sadly their third effort was too dark, and with the departure of one of the guitarists, the mix of heaviness and psychedelia collapsed. Still, Dropped is just plain fantastic. Review by: Hughesy This album is simply one of the best rock albums I've ever heard. It came out at a time when grunge was still oozing and metal was peaking and hardly got noticed. It was dark enough to draw in a metal and grunge crowd. This album is wonderfully played and recorded. It actually has a tone (check out revieews elsewhere on the www by me, "tone" is my schtick. There are no dead tracks, there are interesting lyrics and riffery thoughout, great solos and grooves. This is one of THOSE headphone albums. If you play guitar then Dropped is a must buy. Svitek is one of my favourite guitarists, predictably it was Ministry that drew me to this gem, but after listening, I revisited ministry, and things made a lot more sense. A true one off original. Review by: Kinyoubi Mindfunk, "Dropped", is honestly on of the greatest cd's released in the 90's. Why this cd never achieved widespread popularity at the time of it's release is a mystery to me. The craftsmanship of songs, and especially the guitar work, is far superior to anything produced in it's genre before or since. The two guitarists on this cd masterfully blend their styles together to create the ultimate grunge/stoner metal experience. The production values on this cd are first rate as well. If you like "Tool" and "Alice in Chains", you will love this cd. Review by: killmaul I love this album. It's as near perfect as an album can be. It has to be listened to all in one go. You can't just play 1 or 2 tracks you must play them all. The tracks all flow into one another. The running order is just right. I cannot imagine listening to Hollow then Wisteria for instance. Its like Alice In Chains or Soundgarden only better! And those lyrics. Trippy, weird, nonsense and yet they make perfect sense. 'Arms to the sky', 'Oh Goddess shine!' the album builds and builds to a climax with Hollow and Pat wailing 'I don't know if I believe!' The album is heavy and psychedelic. It's got killer riffs, 'In the way eye' and great melodies 'Drowning' and great musicianship from every member on every song. I saw Mindfunk live several times and they were amazing. If only they could have kept a stable line up, they would have been huge! Review by: Gus Just when I thought there was no hope for really soulful dark rock, along came this album to give me new hope. As a longtime fan of Sabbath, Edgar Winter, Rush, Priest, Maiden and Angel Witch to name a few, the 80s was an extremely dissapointing time. The early 90s seemed a little better (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains) and when I heard Screaming Trees was starting to look up. But still there was a sort of deviance from the really heart rending melodic quality of 60s and 70s Heavy Metal (and I use this term in it's original sense not the Hermaphroditic hairspray puke it's now associated with). I was fortunate enough to be working in an auto shop with a Mindfunk fan who gave me thier two song EP (they were actually passing these out for free at thier shows!). My greatest regret of that whole decade is that I didn't go to see them while I could have. I heard thier live show made the studio versions seem tame. This is my favorite album of the last 24 years (maybe a close second to Maiden's first album with Paul DiAnno singing). If you haven't heard it you'd be doing you're ears a real service by letting this one play. It's been over ten years since I first heard it and it still sounds fresh. Well, I could go on yammering about this for the length of a novella but suffice to say that at the current time I'm on a quest to try to find People Who Fell From The Sky. I have Superchief saved to an old computer (and is really the main reason I still have this one plugged in) but the rest of the album has alluded me since I heard about it a few years ago. Dropped; however, is a masterpiece right up there with any of the great albums of this genre. Review by: Khor1255 dont even know where to begin with dropped. this is by far one of the greatest most signifigant albums to anyone who loves rock and metal, and most have never heard it. the guitar tones are phenominal, bass is thick and greasy, drums big and dry, crazy lyrics, and some of the best slow moaning yet beautiful riffs this side of cathedral. its not all one speed though, quite a bit of it of is up tempo. listen to this with some ear goggles if you can as most of the guitar parts are panned hard left and right and jason everman's and louis svitek's intertwinning parts are wonderful and contrasting-one is sweet, one is sour. one of few albums i could not live without. Review by: grimjim I do not remeber wherefrom I got this album, one of the most deep I ever heard, insight width HOLLOW, drowning be with the favourite. Concept of Total (long compositions), by me depth long after heard (years). Angeloi Mon Cagliostro reminded on a lost album. Review by: angeloi_mon_cagliostro
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