Billy us ... a man of letters?

Billy us ... a man of letters?

Cyberpunk (Audio CD)

Customer Review

"Cyberpunk" - the name says it all. A musician like Billy Idol dares to a literary model, to an underground movement of the eighties, and grabs a way of life in rock music. The amazing thing: It works !!! Put on the sunglasses on, buckled the air guitar, here comes the soundtrack for mood of bleak future. William Gibson and Bruce Sterling send their regards.
What gets the listener? Overall, 'only' 13 pieces are on the recording actually contain, but are supplemented by Intro, Interludes and a "trailer". The result: The album has a kind of radio play character with tension, it takes the listener on a journey into and through a musical country of the Apocalypse, in which germinates the hope of a better tomorrow.
I have so far not found any album that captures and transports the original, subversive cyberpunk mood as well. "Cyberpunk" now has 10 years on the hump - and still fascinated by the album. It is less the claim / the quality of the music (half of the pieces I would personally 'yes na' dub as B-goods and, therefore, only the four stars), but rather the atmospheric density and the 'wholeness' of the work ,
In addition to the single "Shock to the System" fascinating works such as the grooving "Tomorrow People", "Adam in Chains" (Warning: Not in the car when driving at night to hear the intro is dangerously suggestive !!!), the frantic "Neuromancer" or the longer pieces "heroin" or "Shangrila". Everything for not necessarily screamer with Single-qualities, by the context of the album, they win all but in goodness and complement each other perfectly.
Conclusion: A surprising, of the criticism in the press (which at that time probably did not know and certainly do not know today what the man sings?) Unrestrained underrated album of a man to whom I would never have expected this.
Respect! More of that!

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