X - Under the Big Black Sun
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Music CD Cover Artist: X Edition: Music CD Format: Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2001-09-18 Music Label: Elektra / Wea Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Under the Big Black Sun Album
Free Music Review: The best among a great set of reissues
Hit: 5 Stars
Of all the first-rate bands from the early-80's US punk explosion, X pretty much had it all: a jaw-droppingly great guitarist in Billy Zoom, a smooth crooner and bassist in John Doe, a brutal, precise drummer in DJ Bonebrake, and a compellingly unique vocal presence in singer Exene Cervenka. Their lyrics were heady poetry on top of their dead-on, primal rock'n'roll. X made some of the greatest music from this era, and Rhino has graced us with their first (and best) three albums in expanded reissues.
I'd call all three reissues a three-way-tie for first, but if I had to choose "Sun" would be my pick. By this time, X had mastered a large palette of sounds, and ex-Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek's production does X the most justice here.
Tipping the scales in "Sun"'s favor are the bonus tracks: their wonderful cover of "Breathless" and a stunning instrumental of "Because I Do" are worth it alone. But you have to get them all. Can you really stand to overlook a remastered "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene" from "Los Angeles," or "White Girl" off "Wild Gift"?