Vol. 10: F
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 5:13
2. "Track 2" 9:35
3. "Track 3" 6:45
4. "Track 4" 1:13
5. "Track 5" 6:45
6. "Track 6" 3:36
7. "Track 7" 7:13
8. "Track 8" 2:07
Total length:
42:31
Track 1, "Aldebaran Strikes Hard", comes out of the box striking hard like a dirty East-Coast hip-hop track. This could be a very interesting track to rap over. Nice, slow guitar enters, keeping it creepy and dirty. The track suddenly loses its OOMPH and descends into wankery warbling. Very fast finger picking and tapping, and as he wraps it up, the horns come back in and things get 'hard' again... It's hit or miss, check it out. I think it's interesting.
"Down In It" comes out strong too. Very funky bassline, very smooth, fast drumrolls from Brain, and Buckethead lays down this nasty sounding solo. He lays down some solid riffs in between bouts of bluesy, noodly soloing. The drums on this track blow me away. Absolutely beautiful rolls. It's a huge +1 for this song.
Track 3, "The Ludovico Technique", is another exercise in avant-weirdness and instrumental storytelling turned classical. It's a very strange direction to take the song, but it is quite soothing so I'm not complaining...
"Hole in the Feeding Tube" is a mix of activity. Buckethead softly strums while someone plays spoons and a strange drum machine pattern blast off. It's short and to the point.
"Aces of Galaga" is a descriptive title. Buckethead warbles over old school bleeps and bloops, and other arcade sound effects. It's fairly silly.
"Bot's Lament" is next. Imagine a robot crying and stomping around in a temper tantrum, on hallucinogenic drugs.
"Strange Visualization" is a short, eerie two minute piano track with 5+ minutes of silence leading to the 'bonus track'... "Evil Lurks Within", which is another one of those creepy guitar tracks without drum or bass to support. Makes you want to pull out a Ouija board or something...
Overall, this is my lowest rated volume for having a lot of filler, even for a box set of what are basically B-sides. Good thing there's 13 volumes...
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