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Vs. |  | Artist: Mission of Burma
Label: Matador Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 70613
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 744861086826
EAN: 0744861086826
ASIN: B001T46UDM
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Secrets | | • | Train | | • | Trem Two | | • | New Nails | | • | Dead Pool | | • | Learn How | | • | Mica | | • | Weatherbox | | • | The Ballad Of Johnny Burma | | • | Einstein's Day | | • | Fun World | | • | That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate | | • | Forget | | • | OK/No Way | | • | Laugh The World Away | | • | Progress |
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Amazon.com
This is one of the greatest statements of the early days of American punk rock. Boston-based Mission of Burma created an intense, somewhat claustrophobic sound that was based neither on speed nor brevity. They bash and flail on their instruments, and the music is dense (including early tape manipulations), but the songs are intelligent and captivating. "Secrets" unfolds into directed chaos with an anthemic feel; "Trem Two" also has a great sense of dynamics. Several band members contribute songs, which also keeps the album engaging. Released in 1982 but still fresh. --Robert Gordon
Product Description
The super deluxe "Definitive Editions" CD + DVDs are close to selling out, so here are the CDs at mid-price: "Vs.", "Signals, Calls & Marches", and "The Horrible Ttruth About Burma". No DVDs, but you get the full huge booklets and wonderful re-mastered sound with all the bonus music. Spin #10 Best Re-issues 2008. Magnet #9 Best of 2008: Re-issues. Pop Matters: #12 Best Reissues of 2008. All Music's Favorite Re-issues of 2008. Dusted Choice Re-issues of 2008.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 23
 Vs. June 15, 2009
Morton (Colorado)
Mission Of Burma-Vs ****
The fact that I absolutley loathed this album the first time I bought still makes me laugh everytime I think about it. I hated the album so much I took it back and exchanged it...about a week later I needed to hear the album again for one reason or another. It was haunting me. So I went and bought the album again. Listened to it and was absolutley floored by what I heard.
Intellegence in music can often be a bad thing...as in the case of lets say prog. Here however and really in the whole post-punk genre in general it is very welcome as it truly is the only genre where it is done correctly without sounding pompus. The lyrics found here on Vs. are both intellegent and insightful. 'Weatherbox' and 'Dead Pool' are in a class all their own.
Musically the album is punishing compared to the rest of the post-punk from the time. Mission of Burma knew damn well what they were doing when they released Vs. all those years ago to no sucess but much critical acclaim. The sort of acclaim that today is thrown around to just about anything except for what truly desearves it. Mission Of Burma's Vs. however very much desearved the praise.
edgy beauty/beautiful edginess March 9, 2007
Kenneth M. Osowski (Stewartstown, PA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If I could listen to "Einstein's Day" on endless loop for the rest of my life, I think I'd die a happy man.
honesty an actor's first mistake January 11, 2007
Jessica Willis (the Berkshires)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Oh, something happens in the first few moments "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate" that is deliriously so beautiful--somewhere around the "can I count on you if I fall apart/if I fall a/If I fall apart" that is one of those perfect chiming moments, when the meter gets pegged and his voice decays because it's so over-the-top loud. I could also go deaf to this record.
Better than expected July 20, 2005
Andrew J. Griffin
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was pleasantly surprised at how good this album was. Every song has its own hook, its own sound. Not all songs are fast and hard (although the ones that are, are good). Good melodies and impassioned singing. One of the best albums of the early '80s.
I Bought It Way Back When February 28, 2005
R. F. Mojica (Staten Island, NY United States)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I don't know where I first heard Mission of Burma, but it was pretty early on in their existence, because I had all their records AS records. They were a favorite right away, and ranked up with The Fall, Flipper and Wire's album "Pink Flag" as the favorite music of my late teen and early 20's years.
All that stuff still holds up (for me at least) all these years later. Mission of Burma was a strange case because back then (and even now) I was the only person I knew who had ever heard of them, and it's still a mystery to me where I latched on to this group. This was (I believe) their only full scale in the studio album, signals, calls and marches being more of an EP and their other album of the time (Horrible Truth, etc.) being a live record. I never saw them live or anything, but I had these records back then, listened to them constanlty and have them now as CD's. If your taste runs to this type of music, or even what in the last decade has come to be called "alternative", try out Mission of Burma and find out what Alternative Music was like when you couldn't hear it on any commercial radio station, and you had to go down into some basement record store on Prince St. in Manhattan in order to buy the VINYL records.
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