Yesterday I figured that the record biz had finally hit the wall on deluxe reissues of (cough) “classic” albums. Clearly I had forgotten all about everyone’s favorite U.S. answer to the Chemical Brothers. From a press release today:
In their decade-long career, THE CRYSTAL METHOD have sold over a million albums, scored a Grammy nomination and collaborated with everyone from Ozzy Osbourne to Scott Weiland to Ol’ Dirty Bastard. They headlined the Hollywood Bowl, rocked Coachella and played a fashion show in Milan for Donatella Versace. Meanwhile, their songs appeared in countless video games, movies and television series. Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, who are THE CRYSTAL METHOD, even spent a surreal night in the Los Angeles County Jail. But before any of that happened, they made Vegas, their debut album from 1997. Marking its 10th anniversary, Jordan and Kirkland have reassessed and readdressed the long-player that started it all with VEGAS (DELUXE EDITION), which will be released via Geffen/UMe on September 18.
The number of remixes a dance act usually issues on 12-inches and the like actually make another disc a smart idea here. But really–”the long-player that started it all”? A couple hundred keggers and some semi-profound realizations that dance music, like, rocks, they mean? Is that “it all” there is?
The Crystal Method! Oh, I get it!
What a clever, clever pun indeed.
buying this the first time it came out was one of my most regretted purchases of the nineties – luckily i was also into Oval at the time so it did give me a disc I didn’t care about to screw around with trying to get it to skip in an interesting fashion (and it even disappointed as far as that went).
I’m holding out for the deluxe reissues of the Spin Doctors’ catalog-are you listening, Sony/BMG?! I know there’s more material you could add to “Homebelly Groove”.
Come on now, this may be the best album ever to feature samples from “The Dark Crystal,” a speech by Jesse Jackson and a voicemail left by a coked-up stripper.
Awright, another ten years of xtreem-sports montages set to “Busy Child”!
@dippinkind: God yes! I bought this during a “Pre-frosh weekend” at would become my alma mater. All hopped on independence, and having taken the subway BY MYSELF, I rushed to some store and bought this. Sigh… misguided youth.
Ironically, in all of this irrelevant nostalgia, we’re almost guaranteed not to hear an official peep about the 10th anniversary of OK Computer, one of the only albums of 1997 that could actually justify a repackaging.
“The long-player that started it all”… It all being the slow realization that maybe this “electronica” thing was just as subject to middling sub-par unnecessary releases as is any other music.
I wonder if this means vinyl reissue as well? And if so, will there be bonuses?
A 10-(or-now-11)-year-anniversary Deluxe double-CD of nothing but versions of “Macarena” by Los Del Rio would have been much more worth it. Far better and more danceable song than anything by Crystal Method. (There’s a good chance The Crystal Method remixed “Macarena” though, come to think of it.)