| Blood Visions | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 46476
Category: Music
Artist: Jay Reatard
Publisher: In the Red Records
Studio: In the Red Records
Manufacturer: In the Red Records
Label: In the Red Records
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 133
UPC: 759718513325
EAN: 0759718513325
ASIN: B000H2M2HK
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Blood Visions | | • | Greed, Money, Useless Children | | • | It's So Easy | | • | My Shadow | | • | My Family | | • | Death Is Forming | | • | Oh It's Such a Shame | | • | Not a Substitute | | • | Nightmares | | • | I See You Standing There | | • | We Who Wait | | • | Fading All Away | | • | Turning Blue | | • | Puppet Man | | • | Waiting for Something |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 enema mine October 16, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
For some reason, I thought this album was going to be "edgy." Maybe it was the cornball "American Psycho" cover. Maybe it was more primordial than that: maybe it was just the simple misspelling of retard that reeled me in. Either way, here I sit, sucking it up in the sucker corner. And you know, my friends, when I discovered JR wasn't offering up a singularly mind-bending experience (I mean who does that anymore?), I would have been willing to play along in the sandbox and keep my bad comments to myself if JR had at least done more than phone in this first solo outing. And I hear he sounded even worse with the last band, when they were still recording onto scotch tape attached to a stationary bike. Excusing the tinny AM radio production quality, what is this? Rehearsal on PCP? "Death Is Forming" is a perfect example: Grating Devo Play-Doh nyuk-nyuks. Sounds like The Killers getting together and jamming with DRI. Peanut butter on my chocolate bar that would be not.
But wait, there's more. The next song, "Oh It's Such a Shame," is Frank Black meets Falco. This is what would have happened if Ringo Starr had led The Beatles. Neanderthal fist-pumping melodies and second-rate sentiments. You probably wouldn't have even heard of The Beatles until Oasis started covering their tunes.
 Unbelievably Amazing Pop Genius! October 31, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
in my opinion Jay Reatard's "Blood Visions" is the single most cohesive, unfathomably tight, sinister, and disturbingly brilliant pop record ever made. Every track is simultaneously a polished diamond and a catastrophic train wreck. All of the rock n' roll thematic standards are represented: unrequited love, lament, loss, anger, murder, death, and redemption. When Jay Reatard sing/yells "Missing You" you really believe he misses someone, perhaps a bit too much. Although this record transcends the usual comparisons, it could be said that a eight headed hydra monster including the heads of
Roy Orbison, Screaming Lord Sutch, Graham Lewis (Wire), Jim Weber (New Bomb Turks), Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerry Roslie (The Sonics), Billy Childish (Thee Headcoats), and Glen Danzig. But the entire record was recorded by Jay Reatard alone! This isn't just some master musician wanking his glowing guitar, but a conceptual mastermind who uses his talents in a brutally cohesive fashion.
If you have a pulse, or even if you don't, you should own this pop masterpiece before the world explodes in a heap of blood and glass and feathers.
Behold Greatness June 14, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What was the last new rock album that truly gave you `the shivers?' And I'm not talking delirium tremens here. Mr. Jay Reatard of Memphis has crafted just such a work in his `Blood Visions' LP (In The Red). The `boy-wonder' musician and producer already scorched a path through the garage and synth-punk jungle with groups like The Reatards, Lost Sounds, and (believe me) many more, all the while honing his unique attack. His new work is a relentlessly efficient barrage of blazingly original melodic punk-pop that bursts through the tedious garage rock ghetto to claim fresh- uh, blood. Jay has found the perfect vehicle for his righteously misanthropic lyrics, a compellingly ominous musical landscape of modern life run off the rails. Musical strands of predecessors like Devo, Wire and The Adverts are crammed onto a careening personal pop skeleton. Here is a man wary of `Greed, Money, Useless Children,' `My Family,' and even `My Shadow.' While this may not sound like much fun, it's the sounds that carry it through, nailing one by one with unique hooks that prick the ear and leave a bright stain. For a man with such a body of work behind him, like it or not he's got a future in store for the rest of us.
"it's so easy when your friends are dead" May 29, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If The Futureheads stopped being british and turned up the punk knob this might happen...maybe not. Either way this is very catchy late 70's/early 80's type punk perfected all the way down to the production. Simple, raw, and full of youth. I am reminded of the Buzzcocks, Richard Hell, and Wire...basically the greats. It's been a while since something of this caliber has been released and could still be considered "punk". The lyrics are brimming with drunken fun and lack of inhabitions as well (see the title of this review). It would be pretty punk to steal this album, but it would be even more punk to buy something from someone who has definitely created something great.
EASILY the BEST release of 2006!!! May 18, 2007
I don't know exactly what to say to sum this album up in a succinct fashion. When I first saw it, I thought it looked a little too much like the cover of the DWARVES cd, "Blood, Guts, and Pu**y", but it came highly recommended by a friend who's taste I trust. After just the opening chords of the title track, I was completely turned inside out. It just struck something inside me and I knew this was going to take over my cd player & iPod. Six months later and I'm STILL playing this in heavy rotation. I'm really surprised it didn't just hit REALLY big, because it seems to have the necessary elements of a megahit, not unlike NIRVANA's "Bleach" when it was first released in 1989.
Jay Reatard captures all that's great about the 70s/80s punk/new-wave sound ala DEVO, THE WIPERS, WIRE, GARY NUMAN, etc. It has a really great rhythm throughout and just the fact that he plays every instrument & produced every bit of this himself is impressive unto itself.
His other bands are excellent as well (there's only about 20 of them). If you like what you hear be sure to check out LOST SOUNDS which is his band with female punk demigodess, Alicja Trout.
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