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ahenathon
1) There is no cyberpunk genre or style in music. 2) This album is not even in half cyberpunk inspired. It is your regular Billy Idol + some conteporary sounds. 3) For real cyberpunk feel in music go to Front Line Assembly and similar acts. 4) This album is far more better than anything Bowie did.
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Rainey_Dawn
Damn strait this is a highly underrated album -- from start to finish - it's a rare gem... one of my favorite albums - period! ❤︎ OH and to the damned critic that says Idol's cover of Heroin is the worst - he need his ears checked... it's amazing!! I prefer to hear Billy's cover any day!! ❤︎
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MachineOfaDream
I always thought this album sucked because when I was MUCH younger I put it on one time and heard these weird spoken-word things and was like "lul where's rebel yell?", but now I'm giving it a fair listen and it's not really that bad if you can be patient for a few minutes of high concept interludes and whatever.
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zen-concrete
It’s a shame that even Billy dropped this album (doesn’t play on concerts etc.). Gem hidden in a plain view.
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ItsCreamfan
He plays Shock to the System a lot but this album was extremely hated when it came out. I bet he wants people to just forget of it's existence at this point
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Moonlight__Dawn
VERY underrated & wonderful album. The entire album is awesome - way ahead of its time. Released in 1993 yet sounds like 2010s (musically and lyrically speaking).
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Gleb_Monster
This album is the dictionary definition of underrated. [3] They said Cyberpunk was a failure, now I listen to this and I can say, it's a great album, nearly ideal one.
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Kaoru_is_here
It's a bit like David Bowie's "Outside". Maybe just not as good, though. But still pretty interesting. And I do dig the Velvet Underground cover!
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skromnibog
Shock to the system is the most listened and almost all other songs are better. And the main power of this album is its concept. Something out there went wrong and this, almost perfect, album got unnoticed.
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isolationtheory
I got a cassette of this for my 9th birthday. It's an incredibly funny album.
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shomizu9
At this point, most music and movies like this were bandwagonning, standing on the shoulders of Gibson and many others who had established the fiction of the future of cyberspace already. I think these authors and futurists would latch onto this idea of corporatism at their expense as their prophecies fulfilled. (read the books to see what I mean)
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shomizu9
Reading over some of the comments, I don't think many people really "get" this album. It is very different from what Idol did before, or since. If you look at the year it came out, the title of the album, hear the lyrics, and are an avid reader of science fiction in the genre the album was named after, it's very easy to "get". This came out towards the late-middle/end of the cyberpunk craze in literature, and really nicely sums it all up in my opinion, if not necessarily in sound, then in lyrical themes. All these books and movies had come out or were coming out when this album was released that really went nuts with this whole "crazy new thing" called cyberspace (or what that word could mean). You remember all the horrible cheesy movies and tv shows that showed the big goofy VR headsets and body suits, and horrible early 90s cg special effects! You could be IN a computer, man, it was "flash", it was "rad"! More above ^^
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