OFF: The Hard & The Heavy Volume One

[Bob Lennon]

All the pre-major label MM is quite good.
Their first s/t release is more garage/heavy psych. 6 smokin tracks.
My fav is this and Spine of God, a release that shows them starting to become
mainstream, but quite good. closer to the "stoner rock" thing.
TAB seams to be a big fav of HW fans, there's a super long track, that's
heavy and spacey... I never really warmed up to it that much...
after that, their LP's rock - but closer to the MTV generation, which to me
seems the way they intended to go. If you look at DW's earlier pre-MM bogus
"combat metal" efforts, you'll see that was probably his game plan all along.
hey no shame there, bands are businesses, some want the $$$ and others pursue
the art of it (and sometimes go hungry).
final word from me: if you listen to commercial rock, listen to the A & M
releases pretty rockin stuff, if however you lean towards "garage" rock, get
the Glitterhouse stuff, mainly their 1st release.
bob

In a message dated 12/11/2001 11:54:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
sjyoules at VISTO.COM writes:
> Hi
>
> I heard about Monster Magnet from this list, bought God Says No and was,
> um, disappointed.  It was much more mainstream than expected - I had the
> idea that they were a Space Rock band...
>
> So is it true that their earlier stuff was more spacey and that they have
> recently been pursuing the exposure they got on MTV?  Anyone feel like
> providing a Rough Guide to Monster Magnet? :-)
>
> Steve