When the needle hits the grooves of We Are the Star People, listeners instantly drift away to a celestial arena where endless stacks of amplifiers drench and bathe them in sonic overdrive bliss. The doors of the cosmos stretch open upon a spiritual haven where Tony Iommi and Ace Frehley freely trade guitar licks with Marc Bolan and George Harrison. Majestic, timeless and epic—Turn Me On Dead Man conjures the fantastic-ness of the nebulas with power-chords so heavy and melodies so sweet. While the band frolics in a lysergic glam rock playground, their songs touch on things much deeper and more surreal. Does the title track refer to native Americans invaded by outsiders or is it a play on the Hollywood star mentality? The mighty “Dreamchild” is a pure pop song of redemption; “Deep Space Pollen” is space rock at its finest with druggy vocals yearning to understand the UFO / alien abduction phenomenon. “Let Them Eat Flowers” is psychedelic perfection, and “Heart of the Deaf,” the most traditional tune on the album, provides a free tarot reading with every play. We Are the Star People encompasses what analog is all about—an album born for the LP format, a document for the ages that needs to be held in one’s hand. Recorded on two-inch tape like a record should be, turn it up loud, burn out and head into space at warp speed. Is it the ’70s? Is this the ’90s? No man, it’s now!
LP $12.00
07/09/2013
MP3 $7.92
07/09/2013
Those enamored of guitar solos, psychedelic heaviness, and songwriting chops may have already heard Turn Me On Dead Man's two previous Alternative Tentacles releases, God Bless the Electric Freak (Virus340) and Technicolor Mother (Virus362). They return to the Alternative Tentacles fold with their latest salvo at rock godhead, Sunshine Suicide. Sunshine Suicide was recorded over a span of two plus years at four different studios. Nick Doom's addition as guitarist leads to the twin guitar harmonies with mastermind Mykill Ziggy. Waves of heavy rock pound earholes and bend sonic antennae set to Smashing Pumpkins frequencies. Though they have always aimed to please heavy music fans, melodic hooks embed where no other band dares plant the flag. Exploring themes they've done in the past - escapism, apocalypse, mysticism, and lust - TMODM delve further into "pop" or their conception of it. There are transitional pieces including the sitar "Vitamin Om" and acoustic meandering of "Ink Blot Butterflies". Chris Lyman of Giant Squid keeps the pace across the album, "Blue Dreamy, Amber Waves" gets into prog exploration before settling in to the riff-tastic mode. Jello Biafra even makes a quest appearance on 'Olympus Mons (Jello Shit-Storm Mix)'. Like an aural flea market, re-tooling the past in a mystic tent, TMODM offers nuggets of glory for those seeking surprise. Personnel: Mykill Ziggy Nick Doom Chris Lyman Kurt Statham Scott Shanks
MP3 $9.90
06/30/2009
Alternative Tentacles is proud to announce the release of Technicolour Mother, San Francisco's TURN ME ON DEAD MAN's anticipated follow-up to God Bless the Electric Freak (Virus 340). TMODM's sophomore effort expands on their signature soundscape of psychedelic peaks and heavy metal/stoner rock depths--"heavydelic" is the band's contribution to the lexicon of music genres--offering a more diverse cadre of songs than their debut. Th e seemingly unlikely team of Eli Crews (BEULAH) and Tim Green (NATION OF ULYSSES, FUCKING CHAMPS)--with TMODM frontman and songwriting wizard Mykill Ziggy at their side--recorded and produced Technicolour Mother, adding yet another layer to the musical complexity with bigger, fuller production than their debut. Simply put, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN plays heavy crush bliss rock breaking the sound barrier on their own private Lear jet headed straight to hell. So put on your headphones, turn up the volume, and let us turn you on to a place where Rock is religion, and religion is loud!
CD $9.50
08/14/2006
MP3 $9.90
08/14/2006
70s rock must die, long live 70s rock! San Francisco’s TURN ME ON DEAD MAN channels the highs (pun intended) of 70s rockdom while being firmly planted on this side of the new millennium. Their sound is hard to piegeonhole, but it’s too easy to get sucked into "God Bless the Electric Freak", a delicious mess of divergent influences from T-REX to QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, from URGE OVERKILL to THE HEADS, with a shot of ZOLAR X, TURBONEGRO, THE DANDY WARHOLS and HELIOS CREED. Do not adjust your stereo if you hear gorgeously exalting rock anthems melting into neo-psych ragas surging into crushing stoner rock—you’re just tripping on TURN ME ON DEAD MAN’s hypnotic formula. Relentlessly narcissistic and decadent, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN may be the antithesis of what Alternative Tentacles usually stands for, but who doesn’t have a moment of weakness for 70s rock? "God Bless the Electric Freak" is the blissful sound of some rock star god’s private jet doing death spirals down to Hell.
CD $9.50
09/13/2005
MP3 $0.00
09/13/2005