The Complex

by Lava

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Release Date:2003-04-22
Label:Lava
UPC:756783631220
Binding:Audio CD
Published By:Lava
ASIN:B00008OWZD
Category:Music

Tracks on The Complex by Lava

  1. Above
  2. Time To Start
  3. Sing Along - featuring Dave Matthews
  4. Up To The Roof - featuring Tracy Bonham
  5. Your Attention
  6. Persona - featuring Josh Haden
  7. Piano Smasher
  8. White Rabbit - featuring Esthero
  9. The Current - featuring Gavin Rossdale
  10. I Feel Love - featuring Venus Hum
  11. Shadows Part 2 - featuring Tracy Bonham & Rob Swift
  12. What is Rock - featuring Arone Dyer & Peter Moore
  13. The Complex - featuring Peter Moore
  14. Exhibit 13

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Album Description

Their first full-fledged rock 'n' roll album, 'The Complex', features guest appearances from Dan The Automator, Tracy Bonham, Esthero, Dave Matthews, & others. 14 tracks including the single, 'The Current', featuring Gavin Rossdale. Lava. 2003.
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Take equal measures of Gallagher and Kraftwerk, mix in a 15-year supply of blue body paint and shake with a double-shot of modern marketing savvy and you might have something akin to Blue Man Group. This ambitious second album by New York performance artists cum entrepreneurs Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, and Chris Wink expands their central artistic contradiction--mainstreaming the alternative--with a propulsive cocktail of rhythm, irony, self-invented instrumentation, and bona fide song structures that feature turns from guest stars Dave Matthews (the music hall dirge "Sing Along") and Tracy Bonham ("Up to the Roof," and with Rob Swift, "Shadows Pt.2"). The conceit is vaguely reminiscent of the Tubes' tongue-in-cheek ode to '80s corporate rock, "The Completion Backwards Principle," right down to being so convincing the irony often melts away. Fans of their live performances will appreciate its wall-to-wall rhythmic thrust and quirky textures, while aficionados and newcomers alike should welcome its surprising, seductive melodies and mature songwriting. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

A Complex album.. - Reviewed on 2008-02-11
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
This is the second album produced by Blue Man Group, based on their "Rock Concert" tour, and it is very different from the first. The first album had no words at all, but this album has vocals on almost every track. It's got a lot of slow tracks, but there are a few really rocking tracks as well. My personal favorites are Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 13. This album has a very high replay value. I could listen to this at least once a week
Blue Man Group Purchase - Reviewed on 2008-01-21
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
I saw blue man group in concert and they were great. The cd does do them justice. It is different music from the concert I went and saw but it was still really good. I enjoy them very much.
It is too complex! - Reviewed on 2007-12-14
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
This CD was way better than The Current, I Feel Love, Audio, or Complex Rock Tour on CD, or complex sampler, or the luxor CD, or Sing Along EP. The tracks on this CD were created with vocals and by lyrics. The complex in BlueMan series. There is a gray world with a big urban city and nothing but red lights in windows and an office with stick people on the doors and they all are trying to escape the complex world. The blue men are trying to make it to the roof and escape the underground office with under that is a current eletrical lab with wires and L.E.D signs. The lyrics go along with that plot vey well. On the track Exhibit 13, when it is over, wait 3 minutes and an extra song will come on 3 minutes after Exhibit 13 is over. The drama of this album goes along with the Blue Man Group side of this. The cover of this CD shows one head in the middle and 3 Blue Men. This is the rock concert manual on CD with song number 2 Time To Start.

1. Above
2. Time To Start
3. Sing Along
4. Up To The Roof
5. Your Attension
6. Persona
7. Piano Smasher
8. White Rabbit
9. The Current
10. Shadows Part II
11. What Is Rock
12. Complex
13. I Feel Love
14. Exhibit 13
( 3 Minutes After Exhibit 13 is over there will be a credits song called Mandelbrot 4)
( This was a story of the Blue Men if they didn't follow their bliss as seen in Inside The Tube which is a DVD being released in 2006 )



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Great Driving Music! Fun for Exercise... - Reviewed on 2007-08-23
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2 customers found this review not to be helpful.
Not as good as the DVD but once you've seen the DVD you can picture the movements that go along with the songs. I purchased this after seeing the concert and it is great if you are going on a long or boring road trip, during exercise or just as a pick-me-up...much better and more healthy than drugs or coffee!
Blue Man Group is just awful - Reviewed on 2007-08-08
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9 customers found this review not to be helpful.
I saw the Blue Man Group in Orlando and feel completely ripped off, I wanted to warn anyone who hasn't gone to "embrace the magic." Do not waste your money on these mediocre Teletubbies! Men throwing marshmallows at each other and occasionally catching them in their mouths! Pulling pre-approved audience members on stage to put plugs in their ears attached to drumsticks, while someone off stage makes silly noises. The folks that say, "they get it," never seem to be able to explain what there is to get. This is not Neil Peart, this is three guys that can (sort of) play drums together. No special skills or innovative imagination rquired!
Imagine the carbon footprint!
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