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- Date Released: January 1, 1982
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Industrial
- Label: Cleopatra Records / The Orchard
Pioneering industrial rockers Chrome unleash their incendiary clang & roll.
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We Say...
Chrome embraced industrial music's grating mechanical squeals, bowel-loosening rumbles, garbled tape loops and metallic bangs, but the San Francisco duo took them out of the art house and made them rock. Using melodies straight out of the Stooges' Fun House, Chrome flailed and clawed against garbage can percussion straight out of Einstürzende Neubauten's decaying Germany. The first six tracks of The Chrome Box are from 1979's Alien Soundtracks, and the following ten are from 1979's Half Machine Lip Moves — two landmark industrial-tinged aggro-rock albums that set the stage for more streamlined machine-heads like Ministry and Nine Inch Nails.
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They Say...
Those made of money who want to go ahead and take the plunge into full Chrome activity could do worse than to go straight to Chrome Box. The original release of the Box in 1982 served as both an overview of the classic Damon Edge/Helios Creed lineup and the inclusion of some extra goodies. Four previously released albums appeared in full -- Alien Soundtracks, Half Machine Lip Moves, Blood on the Moon, and the compilation No Humans Allowed. Also included were Chronicles and Chronicles, Vol. 2, containing what at the time was unreleased material from the band; those two collections were made available separately later. Many years later, after Chrome had been reactivated by Creed following Edge's untimely passing, the band's new label, Cleopatra, continued its own sporadic reissue program with a full reprint and remastering of the Chrome Box as a three-CD set. This version also has the advantage of including the three Chrome tracks from the Subterranean Modern compilation on Ralph Records from 1979. These include a rather devolved version of "(I Left My Heart) in San Francisco," which was specifically essayed by every other band on the original compilation as well.
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| 01. |  |
Alien Sountracks 1978- Chromosome Damage |
3:49 |
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| 02. | |
The Monitors |
2:19 |
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| 03. | |
Pygmies In Zee Park |
5:59 |
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| 04. | |
Slip It To The Android |
3:48 |
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| 05. | |
Pharoah Chromium |
3:25 |
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| 06. | |
Magnetic Dwarf Reptile |
3:38 |
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| 07. | |
Half Machime Lip Moves 1979 - TV As Eyes |
2:16 |
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| 08. | |
Zombie Warfare |
5:48 |
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| 09. | |
March Of The Chrome Police |
3:37 |
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| 10. | |
You've Been Duplicated |
2:38 |
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| 11. | |
Mondo Anthem |
3:31 |
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| 12. | |
Half Machine Lip Moves |
5:17 |
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| 13. | |
Abstract Nympho |
3:35 |
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| 14. | |
Turned Around |
1:58 |
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| 15. | |
Zero Time |
3:04 |
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| 16. | |
Creature Eternal |
1:53 |
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| 17. | |
Subterranean Modern 1979 - Anti-Fade |
3:55 |
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| 18. |
I Left My Heart In San Francisco |
0:27 |
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| 19. | |
Meet You In The Subway |
5:14 |
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| 20. | |
Read Only Memory 1979 - Excerpt From Read Only Memory |
8:19 |
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| 21. | |
New Age 7 |
3:09 |
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21 Total Tracks, 77:39 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Red Exposure 1980 - New Age |
3:10 |
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| 02. | |
Eyes On Mars |
3:31 |
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| 03. | |
Jonestown |
2:21 |
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| 04. | |
Animal |
2:49 |
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| 05. | |
Static Gravity |
3:20 |
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| 06. | |
Eyes In The Center |
4:08 |
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| 07. | |
Electric Chair |
4:07 |
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| 08. | |
Isolation |
4:33 |
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| 09. | |
Inworlds 1981 - In A Dream |
5:07 |
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| 10. | |
Danger Zone |
5:20 |
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| 11. | |
Blood On The Moon 1979 - The Need |
2:59 |
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| 12. | |
Perfumed Metal |
4:40 |
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| 13. | |
Insect Human |
5:03 |
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| 14. | |
Brain Scan |
3:58 |
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| 15. | |
Live In Concert Bologne,Italy 1981 - Intstrumental (non-lp track) |
5:56 |
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| 16. | |
Out Of Reach |
4:09 |
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| 17. | |
Blood On The Moon |
4:59 |
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| 18. | |
Innervacuume |
4:01 |
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| 19. | |
Planet Strike |
2:28 |
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19 Total Tracks, 76:39 Total Length
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| 01. | |
No Humans Allowed 1982 - The Manifestation Of The Idea |
3:32 |
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| 02. | |
Firebomb 7' -Firebomb |
2:37 |
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| 03. | |
Shadows Of A Thousand Years |
3:38 |
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| 04. | |
3rd From The Sun - Future Ghosts |
5:18 |
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| 05. | |
Armageddon |
8:34 |
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| 06. | |
Heartbeat |
5:12 |
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| 07. | |
Off The Line |
4:31 |
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| 08. | |
3rd From The Sun |
4:42 |
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Anorexic Sacrifice 7" - Anorexic Sacrifice |
5:14 |
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| 10. | |
Beacons In The Eye |
4:40 |
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| 11. | |
Chronicles I 1982 - Open Up (Locust Door) |
6:09 |
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| 12. | |
Chronicles II 1982- Gehenna To Canaan |
7:18 |
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| 13. | |
Raining Mill 1983 - Wings Born In The Night |
6:45 |
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| 14. | |
Tribes (Ultra) |
3:05 |
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| 15. | |
Gehenna Lion |
5:20 |
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15 Total Tracks, 76:35 Total Length
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- Chrome - Main Performer // Bob Lennon - Liner Notes // Bob Lennon - Compilation // Eunah Lee - Graphic Design
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