Golden Black

After a while it starts to get on my nerves...maybe a song or too is fun, but like the Ramones there is little depth.

Gave this as a gift, my daughter loved it. She has already but the CD on her mp3 player so she can have it with her all the time.

Yes Guitar Wolf are a japanese punk rock band and yes, they are fantastic as this collection will show.

After watching the movie Wild Zero, I had to listen to the band responsible for that movie. I am a big fan of punk rock, thrash, heavy metal, and what might be called simply "extreme music." Guitar Wolf is very extreme music. Intentionally lofi, with recording levels beyond the red, piercing feedback and squealing, and so much distortion it's almost unlistenable... if that sounds interesting to you then check out Golden Black, Guitar Wolf's Greatest Hits release. Their music sounds like it was recorded in a sewer tunnel during a nuclear explosion, it's faster than the Ramones could ever dream of playing, has triple the distortion of a Slayer album, and I can't understand a word they sing, but it's brilliant! The attitude of this music is everything, and Guitar Wolf has that in spades. It's kind of like a Japanese version of Motorhead meets the Sex Pistols playing Sonic Youth songs backwards. Or something like that. "Punk metal noise thrash?" "Heavy speed feedback rock?" There are no labels to define Guitar Wolf, like "there are no boundries in rock and roll." My favorite songs include: Can-Nana Fever, Wild Zero, Loverock, Fujiyama Attack, Roaring Blood.

Well known to be one of the most savage rock `n' roll bands of all time, Japan's guitar wolf has been doing `lock `n' lol' for 20 years, and this recording has music from 1997 to 2005, the year that the band's bass player Billy died. Hard to describe their songs other than a sheer blur of guitar and drum mayhem with screeched vocals. The energy is incredible, as is the apparent lack of musicianship as the band embraces a pure 'smash, smash, smash' attitude. Nearly every song follows in the same vein, but it's all great biker fun. The loudest, fastest, most insane rock `n' roll band ever. Not for the faint-of-heart, more for the thick-of-ear.

One of the reasons we even started SF Burning Online was because we were all Guitar Wolf fans. I saw Keith Martin at a Guitar Wolf gig in San Francisco one night, and this website was born. When I hear songs like "Missile Me" and "Wild Zero" I remember that feeling of spontaneity and creativity. We were lucky to see some of the last concerts they did with Billy. We were lucky to do an interview with Guitar Wolf a few years ago. We even had some video of Billy two weeks before he died in March 2005. Now that he is gone, these songs have never sounded so solid. Many people are wrong to think that Guitar Wolf is a Japanese version of American rock and punk rock. When you hear songs like "Invader Ace" and "Kawasaki ZII 750 Rocknroll" you know the opposite is true. Yes, now English-speaking bands have covered these songs. Guitar Wolf's influence will be felt forever. This is a great collection and tribute to the band that has been awesome for twenty years. The fans have picked their favorites. Now you have them!

Although the Stooges delivered a superb album with Raw Power, there was no way it could live up to the hype, all the things you heard about it before you actually heard it. Raw guitars played as hard as possible, Bass that made your G Spot vibrate and vocal yelps relaying frustration, boredom and revolution! Yes, that's a tall order to live up to. Well everything you heard about Raw Power is actually true of Guitar Wolf.Nobody rocks harder than this Japanese trio without entering stupid territory, these guys push it to the limit whilst maintaining the cool factor. Dirty, fuzzed out Rawk with unintelligible lyrics howled out in Janglish, how could it not be brilliant?

Eine großartige Sammlung hammerharter Rockenroll Songs.

Guitar Wolf aus Japan machen schon seit mehreren Dekaden die Musikszene unsicher. Sogar einen Film mit ihnen gibt es ("Wild Zero"; als Fan von trashigen Zombiefilmen sollte man ihn unbedingt mal gesehen haben). Rein musikalisch gibt es seit jeher immer die volle Rock-'n'-Roll-Breitseite, Gefangene werden nicht gemacht. Das betrifft auch en Sound: Obwohl Guitar Wolf die technischen und finanziellen Möglichkeiten hätten, weichen sie nicht von ihrem Lo-Fi-Kurs ab. Das bedeutet, dass einem zumindest bei manchen Songs die Ohren schmerzen können, wenn man den Lautstärkeregler zu weit aufreißt. Es scheppert, knarzt und fiept also an allen Ecken und Enden. Doch das ist halt ein Markenzeichen der Band. Stilistisch beinhalten die Lieder Garagenrock, Punk 'n' Roll und gewisse 50er-Jahre-Vibes. Dazu kommen meist relativ sinnbefreite Texte, die mit üblem japanischen Akzent vorgetragen werden. Songtitel wie "Fujiyama Attack", "Mars Twist" oder "Kawasaki ZII 750 Rock 'n' Roll" sprechen für sich. Diese Best Of verschafft einem einen guten Überblick über das langjährige Schaffen von Guitar Wolf. Wer gerne glattgebügelte Produktionen mag und während des Lauschens der Musik gerne nachdenklich seinen Nachmittagstee schlürft, ist hier völlig falsch. Wer aber hingegen lieber ein paar Freunde einlädt, um am Freitagabend bei zwei, drei Kisten Bier die Bude zu zerlegen, ist mit "Golden Black" bestens bedient.

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