Released: 2004
At the time of this release, Skinlab’s career extended to a mere three albums and given their status as something of a second-tier act it seemed a little overindulgent to release a whopping great double CD of rarities and demo tracks but I guess Century Media had to fill the void left by the promised-but-still-yet-to-appear follow up to Revolting Room somehow. If that sounds cynical, then it’s because it is.
I quite liked the first two Skinlab albums although they’ll never be anything that special but Revolting Room was appalling. Nonetheless I thought that with two discs and more than 2 hours of music there would be something on here I could get into, but I was wrong. This was a complete waste of my time and ended up making me very angry that this type of crap could be foisted on unsuspecting fans. The two new tracks ("Losing All" and "Beneath the Surface") are thoroughly uninspiring, the horrible cover of "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" is one of the most unnecessary things ever recorded and the “remix” of "Slave the Way" is annoying beyond words. The appropriately named ‘Suffer’ EP tracks at the end of disc one almost gave me a migraine.
Disc two has two different versions of "When Pain Comes to Surface", perhaps the one track that, rightly or wrongly, this band will always be remembered for, a bunch of demo versions of stuff off the first album and some live cuts. It’s all a bit too much for a band that really hasn’t done a lot, and you would have to be the type of fan who would have Steev Esquival’s autograph tattooed across your back to get anything out of this except pain, because Nerve Damage sounds the way its title would feel.
CD 1:
At the time of this release, Skinlab’s career extended to a mere three albums and given their status as something of a second-tier act it seemed a little overindulgent to release a whopping great double CD of rarities and demo tracks but I guess Century Media had to fill the void left by the promised-but-still-yet-to-appear follow up to Revolting Room somehow. If that sounds cynical, then it’s because it is.
I quite liked the first two Skinlab albums although they’ll never be anything that special but Revolting Room was appalling. Nonetheless I thought that with two discs and more than 2 hours of music there would be something on here I could get into, but I was wrong. This was a complete waste of my time and ended up making me very angry that this type of crap could be foisted on unsuspecting fans. The two new tracks ("Losing All" and "Beneath the Surface") are thoroughly uninspiring, the horrible cover of "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" is one of the most unnecessary things ever recorded and the “remix” of "Slave the Way" is annoying beyond words. The appropriately named ‘Suffer’ EP tracks at the end of disc one almost gave me a migraine.
Disc two has two different versions of "When Pain Comes to Surface", perhaps the one track that, rightly or wrongly, this band will always be remembered for, a bunch of demo versions of stuff off the first album and some live cuts. It’s all a bit too much for a band that really hasn’t done a lot, and you would have to be the type of fan who would have Steev Esquival’s autograph tattooed across your back to get anything out of this except pain, because Nerve Damage sounds the way its title would feel.
CD 1:
1. Losing All
2. Beneath the Surface
3. Anthem For A Fallen Star (Radio Edit)
4. Come Get It (Steve Evetts Mix)
5. One Of Us (Steve Evetts Mix)
6. Jesus Cells (Demo Version)
7. Disturbing the Art of Expression (Demo Version)
8. Take As Needed (Demo Version)
9. Bullet With Butterfly Wings- 10. Slave the Way (Remix)
11. Purify (Acoustic Version)
12. So Far From the Truth
13. Noah
14. Raza Odiada
15. When Pain Comes to Surface (Demo Version)
16. Paleface (Live Version)
CD 2:
- Paleface (James Murphy Roadrunner Demo Remix)
2. Promised
3. The Art of Suffering
4. Ten Seconds
5. Stumble
6. Down
7. Dissolve
8. Noah
9. Race of Hate (Live)
10. When Pain Comes to Surface
11. Blacklist
12. Slave the Way (Live)
13. No Sympathy For the Devil (Live)
14. Purify (Live)
15. Scapegoat (Live)
16. Know Your Enemies (Live)
17. Come Get It (Live)
18. When Pain Comes to Surface (Live)
Rating: 15%
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