Powertrip | 
 enlarge | Artist: Monster Magnet
Label: Fontana a&M
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 6300
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 540908
UPC: 731454090827
EAN: 0731454090827
ASIN: B000007QDK
Release Date: June 16, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Crop Circle | | • | Powertrip | | • | Space Lord | | • | Temple of Your Dreams | | • | Bummer | | • | Baby Goetterdaemerung | | • | 19 Witches | | • | 3rd Eye Landslide | | • | See You in Hell | | • | Tractor | | • | Atomic Clock | | • | Goliath and the Vampires | | • | Your Lies Become You |
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Amazon.com
New Jersey white-trash visionary and Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf spent most of the '80s and '90s dropping acid, popping pills, inhaling pungent weed, and churning out sludgy, drug-induced paeans to hedonistic abandon. And when he finally came down from his cosmic cloud, he realized the rest of the world was as messed up as he was. Addiction loomed everywhere--for power, money, and sex--and all Wyndorf could do was take out his notepad and marvel at the chaos. Monster Magnet's fourth album is a seething document of decay, corruption, and consumerism. "When you get tired of their crap, baby / Move over here and maybe buy some of mine," he shouts on the title track, while crashing power chords, throbbing bass, and tumbling drum fills resonate around him. Musically, Powertrip is less rambling and psychedelic than the group's past albums, owing as much to such confrontational garage rockers as the Stooges and Blue Cheer as to Black Sabbath. It's also more experimental. "Crop Circle" roars with blowtorch guitars and a circular groove; "19 Witches" and "Your Lies Become You" shiver with twanging surf-punk guitars; and "Space Lord" buzzes like a swarm of angry wasps. A powerful trip for sure, or as Wyndorf says in "Bummer," "If you want to spank your demons and make them pay. Baby I'm your man of the hour." --Jon Wiederhorn
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 A New Funhouse November 4, 2008
P. D'Castro (AUSTRALIA)
This is the best Monster Magnet album. I reminds me of the Stooges "Funhouse" album. It is just full on rock. Big beats, big choruses and big melodies. This is what head banger stuff should be like.
One of the best heavy music records of the 90s. May 21, 2007
Lukas J. Running (Wisconsin)
Admit it, when you first heard the opening, chugging riffs of "Spacelord" your socks were rocked off. Mine were, too. I think this was my favorite cd of my junior and senior year of high school. Every song is a highlight, but "Crop Circle", "Powertrip", "Spacelord", "Bummer", "See You In Hell" and "Third Eye Landslide" are my favs.
You will not find balls-to-the-wall sleaze metal like this anywhere else. This is the epitome of that style and Dave Wyndorf is one of the last true rock-stars. Check out all their other stuff, too. They have never struck out when releasing an album.
Raw energy May 18, 2007
C. Munoz (CA)
This is the album to listen to. If you liked the first few tracks from Dopes to Infinity, then this is for you. From the first track, this album does not let up. There are so many good tracks, it is hard to choose a favorite. I especially like "See you in Hell" because of the groovy, psychedelic vibe it has going. I've always been a fan of the heavy, in your face tracks and this cd is filled with them. This is by far my favorite MM album.
ROCKIN' OUT July 26, 2006
N. Malcolm (Iraq)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For how cheap you can obtain "Powertrip" for, you should take full advantage. This is their most mainstream record, but also rocks the most. By "rocks" of course, that means it doesn't follow previous monster magnet material as much, but it's a marvelously progressive record. Magnet evolves like every other band, but opposed to most other bands, Dave wyndorf's naturally amazing song writing far excedes the standard to most evolving bands. "Powertrip" is Monster Magnet's debut, to signify breaking out of the underground, but throughout their career sustain and posess that same great energy they've harnessed, and like a fine wine, has only gotten better with time.
"The Gods told me to relax..." September 16, 2005
Edwin Cambricke (New York City)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
YES! This is the stuff, the righteous 'n' raucous scalding stoner rock with brains and a heart and a sense of humor. So many bands profess to purvey it but almost none deliver the goods except Brother Wyndorf & Co.
Only two questions: Why did the Magnet not become mammoth stars? And how did the far less interesting Queens of the Stone Age get so dadblamed big?
Verily, these are eternal mysteries.
"I'm never gonna work another day in my life/The Gods told me to relax, they said I'm gonna get fixed up right."
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