If only this band had gotten the recognition lesser Texas bands like Tripping Daisy got.

I've had this CD for years, and I never get tired of it. It still sounds fresh, the song writing is superb, and the playing exhibits that hardest-to-achieve of characteristics: making simplicity interesting and innovative. I can't recommend this CD enough. Plaintive, melodic vocals, clever arrangemens, and lots of clean, ringing electric guitar.

Do yourself a favor; buy it. Then you'll tell your friends about it. It's a lost classic, and ten years from now, you'll still be playing it.

This and Daredevil and probably Fu's two best cds. In Search Of has some sound-alike songs on it that make it drag sometimes. Not that there isn't some killer material on it! "Seahag," for instance, updates Deep Purple's leads on "space truckin'" ... And "strato-streak"! One of their all-time best. So don't be writin' that one off totally. Still, though, some of the others are better. Like King of the Road.

And this one is a gem! Great title, and very descriptive. The action is go, from the opening note to the last. This cd has more moods than many other Fu cds, as they try out different riff approaches, different grooves, and less lead guitar (well, on some tracks). Also includes their first "epic" track, "Saturn III," and it's new territory for them, extremely well done. Then they close with a punk cover! How cool is that--from fuzzed out space rock to fuzzed out punk?! That'll tell you where this band is comin' from right there. ...

Now, the Fu are a great bunch of lumbering fuzzy lowdown noisemakers, no doubt, but this isn't their best album. Daredevil, their previous, was more fresh, exciting, and the songwriting was stronger. This one sounds a little down, a little slow in comparison. That doesn't mean that there aren't some killer riffs here! I mean, this was my first Fu cd, and it got me hooked. But in retrospect, Daredevil is the best of the early Fu discs.

For the later discs, after a couple guys left to form Nebula (be sure to check out To the Center, which is fantastic heavy psych metal groove), Fu stormed back with The Action is Go, which is not only a fantastic title, but possibly the best of their later cds. I'd get it before this one; Daredevil too. It's a toss up to me which one of those two is better. They are distinctly different. King of the Road is also really good--that'd be the third one to pick up, though No One Rides for Free is cool, too (another early one), but they hadn't found their sound yet. Still, it has "ojo rojo," one of their absolute best songs: "She wanted nothing/And I delivered..." Oh yeah. ("ojo rojo" is also available on the early compilation cd.)

Simultaneously country-bluegrass and psychedelic, this band works up moody but tuneful songs filled with longing and torment, pain and fleeting joys. It is heady stuff, and it is the headiness that supplies the subtlely psychedelic tonal landscape (somewhere in the background I hear the vague influence of early Echo and the Bunnymen--especially in the Ian McCollough-like voice). Otherwise, the band sticks to straightforward songs that work towards a slow boil-over, pulling us into their disconcerting worlds, their disorienting visions, their lulling pharmaceutical cascades of rhythmic, rustic sound.

Sorta like REM in a rustic mood attempting to do Echo and the Bunnymen epics at their most tuneful and angst-ridden. Not that this band is imitative--I'm simply trying to describe the psychic soundscape. Moody, driven songs delivered on mostly acoustic instruments. Simultaneously lush, inviting, and poisonous--but in a good way. Certainly this band is an original, and well worth your while.

This is the most subdued of Morphine's works. Sandman is after new moods, quieter moods. Bass is prominent on this album, as if Sandman has been listening to Massive Attack or something. The sax is oftentimes more background atmosphere and color, with less emphasis on lead riffing or rocking out. It is truly a shame that this will be the swan song, now that Sandman has passed on. The soft desperation that this CD evokes is truly haunting given the context, though, in principle not unlike Joy Division's *Closer* (but not in sound) in adding that special resonance. A stellar final effort from one of the best and most original bands of the 90s. If you don't have Cure for Pain yet, here is your chance to rectify that mistake, too!

Low bass, lots of seventies references, a lot of Sabbath listening in the respective band members' youth. This is good stuff, fun and trippy, not doomy like Sabbath, but heavy and rocking.

...with some (slight) industrial influence. This is really good, trippy, and flowing. The songs are tuneful, when they are songs, and the other stuff that is wierder adds dimension. A lot of it quite energetic in that old hypnotic Hawkwind way, with the guitars mixed load. Other pieces are more keyboard dominated. Their best yet--be sure to play it loud. I can't wait for the next one. Also be sure to check out their work with Nik Turner (Sphinx, Present or Future, etc.) and the side project Farflung.

Soothing yet inspiring. I like writing/working to this music, but it's also really, really good for romantic interludes. It's an EP, too, but longer than many albums--a bargain all around. Fantastic electronica in every respect.

Electro-Egyptian trance-dance. Less ambient than their other releases, this is still pretty spacy. Cerebral and fun. Would make great music for an interplanetary bar.