Death In Vegas-The Contino Sessions (1999)


 

Artist: Death In Vegas

Title: The Contino Sessions

Label:  Time Bomb Recordings/Concrete

Format: CD

Cat #: 70930 43521-2

Year of Release: 1999

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999

Listed Condition: M/M sealed with hype sticker

Sell Date: 7/11/25

Sell Price: $8.71

Discogs Last Sold: 6/26/25 VG+/VG+ $4.67

Low: $0.99

Median: $3.00

Average: $3.29

High: $8.71

Current low price: $0.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 28

Have/Want: 481/51

Where  Ishpeming, MI

Time it took to sell: 2 years

Where and When Bought:  Facebook $2 cd lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B-

Sad To See It Go: No

Thinking this was Death In June from eyeballing a microscopic stack of CD spines,  this came purchased in a lot of 1 or 2 dollar CD's a couple years back by accident.  The shrink never came off of it.  It did alert me that there was an Iggy Pop guest appearance on the song "Aisha" that was pretty damn good.  Older Iggy spoken vocal where he introduces himself as a murderer.  Apparently, it was a top ten hit in the UK.

This stuff is along the lines of Massive Attack or Primal Scream maybe a little noiser.    Since it never made it out of the shrinkwrap before I sold it, I had to listen to this online and noticed an expanded format of 23 tracks well past the original 9.  

I'd be quite content to never know what Death In Vegas are and now that I do, I don't feel my life is particularly more enriched.  That said the album is OK in a late 90's British electronic (sort've) trip hop sorta way.  The type of thing somebody else likes to listen to actively.  The though of ME listening to it actively is another thing entirely even if Iggy is on it for a song.  There are a bunch of Iggy solo records I don't feel like listening to either so there you go.

That said there are some tracks that stood out as cool sounding.  "Flying" as a feel like The Edge is jamming with Brian Jonestown Massacre.  It would sound good in a set with the Beatles "Flying."  If you heard it you'd know what I'm talking about.  Jim Reid from Jesus and Mary Chain appears as well toward the end of the CD on "Broken Little Sister" on a track that sounds like a droning shoegaze number.

Reasonable alt rock that under normal circumstances wouldn't make it past a spin before filed away for all eternity.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bob Dylan-Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Original Soundtrack Recording) (1973)

Image
  Artist: Bob Dylan Title: Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Original Soundtrack Recording) Label: Columbia Format: LP Catalog Number: KC 32460 Year of Release:  1973 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1973 Terre Haute Pressing, Embossed Sleeve Sell Price: $6.58 Sell Date: 11/12/24 Condition: VG+/G spine damage Discogs Last Sold: 10/13/24 VG+/VG+ $4.99 Low: $1.68 G+/G+ Median: $7.00 Average: $8.79 High: $26.00 VG+/VG+ Current  low price:  $3.00 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 91 Have/Want: 6400/627 Where Sold: Martinsburg, WV Time It Took  To Sell:  8 years Where and When  Bought: used Worcester Al Bums 83 or 4 $3.99 used Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See  It Go: No I got Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid sometime in the early 80's as part of my quest to complete my Dylan collection before the CD era (or at least before I had a CD player).  This wasn't the greatest of start-to-finish listens although I liked at least one...
Read more

Bob Dylan-Dylan (1973)

Image
  Artist: Bob Dylan Title: Dylan Label:  Columbia Format: LP Cat # PC 32747 Year of Release: 1973 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1973 Terre Haute Pressing Listed Condition: VG/G spine damage Sell Date: 5/30/25 Sell Price: $4.49 Discogs Last Sold: 5/28/25 VG+/VG+ $6.00 Low: $2.00 1/1/25 VG/VG Median: $5.34 Average: $6.98 High: $22.73 M/M 10/30/24 Current low price: $2.00 VG/no cover $2.99 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 116 Have/Want: 5239/328 Where Sold: South Williamsport, PA Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums $3.99 early 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No When Dylan jumped ship to Asylum, Columbia cleaned out their closet of Self Portrait and New Morning outtakes.  The result was 1973's Dylan.  Consisting mostly of covers, it was ignored for CD reissue until 2013 on the Complete Album Collection.  However, it did ok for an outtake record, hitting Gold certification in its day and peaking in ...
Read more

Bob Dylan-Modern Times (2006)

Image
  Artist: Bob Dylan Title:  Modern Times Label: Columbia Format: CD + DVD Catalog Number: 82876 87686 2 Year of Release: 2006 Country and Year  of Edition: US 2006 hardbound booklet with bonus DVD Sell Price: $3.91 Sell Date: 12/31/24 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 1/7/25 VG+/VG+ $2.00 Low: $1.50 Median: $4.00 Average: $4.59 High: $12.92 Current  low price:  $1.99 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 88 Have/Want: 1195/60 Where Sold: Hoover, AL Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: new fancypants edition online when it came out  Bonus DVD: " Blood in My Eyes " (Promo Video), " Love Sick " (Live at the Grammys, 1998), " Things Have Changed " (Promo Video) and " Cold Irons Bound " ( Masked and Anonymous  Video) Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A+ Sad To See  It Go: No An undisputed "major work" that garnered legit Platinum US sales, top 5 in 18 other countries and "best of the year" critic plaudits.  Mode...
Read more