Various Artists - Live And Unreleased From Farmclub.com

Farmclub.com? What can I say? I think I watched it two or three times. Whoever did their editing was on crack, because that show always gave me a headache. And didn't they have the "Doritos girl" as host? Anyways, I do remember the musical encyclopedia, known as Matt Pinfield, trying his darnedest to make the show interesting. That was way back in the day when Incubus didn't suck and rap-metal was still seen as "innovative". They called it the year 1999. Yeah, that Farmclub.com! Oh yeah, usually they had a couple bands on there you wanted to see, but you had to sit through the rest of the crap. Sadly, that's pretty much what this compilation is like too. There are a couple tracks that stand out though: N.W.A. "Nothing But A "G" Thang", DMX "Party Up", Staind "Mudshovel", Bionic Jive "Pump", and the diamond-in-the-rough ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead "Richter Scale Madness" (huh?). However, for the most part, the compilation features live hip-hop and crap rock. There isn't anything I dislike more than live, commercial hip-hop. There's more or less musical screaming and then there's the very unmusical sounds of live, commerical hip-hop; it's just a bunch of MCs up on the stage screaming into a microphones. There are very few hip-hop acts these days that will keep my attention with their live show... none of them are really on this CD. Farmclub.com? ...Oh, it was that show? Yes, and this is the Live & Unreleased from Farmclub.com compilation album that came from "that show". If you ever tuned into USA at all, you knew that most of the time you were in for approximately 5 minutes of excitement. In all honesty, I've never been a fan of live recordings, even if it sounds good. It's possible that a DVD of this compilation would fair better in my eyes, but this CD only gets a 1.5 because of the inclusion of Trail of Dead. [www.getmusic.com]