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One of KMFDM's best

Watts | Nowhere | 11/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is KMFDM's first live CD in their almost 20 year life (not including [bad] illeagally made bootlegs). Strum & Drang Tour 2002 contains 6 awsome old hits, 5 new hits, and 2 Pig songs. You can feel the crowds excitment throw the whole album. The album was recored from June 24 to June 27 in Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago featuring the newly vamped band: Sascha Konietzko, Raymond Watts, Lucia Cifarelli, Bill Rieflin, Joolz Hodgson, Andy Selway, and Steve White.D.I.Y.-5/5-their 2nd best ego song and it kicks live
Attak/Reload-4/5-only one set back, Lucia sings the whole song
Dirty-5/5-Awsome KMFDM song sung by Watts
Ultra-6/5-beyond greatness, even better than the studio one
Boots-5/5-who doesnt love Boots? espcially live
Yohoho-3/5-only song ive got a prob with. to slow for me
Find It F*ck It Forget It-5/5-awsome Pig song, but a bit short
Strum & Drang-6/5-just as good as Ultra
Megalomaniac-5/5-best ego song even w/o Esch, Sascha pulls it off
Flesh-5/5-great heavy riffs
Wrath-5/5-creepy as hell and awsome
Hothole-4/5-another Pig song but not as good as F.I.F.I.F.I.
Spit Sperm-6/5-Best KMFDM Watts combo period"

Not as good as it could be.

J. Rayne | Salisbury, MD United States | 05/30/2003

(2 out of 5 stars)

"this was a worthwhile relase, but it had some serious flaws. the song selection is lackluster..."the only good one's a dead one" was performed live, and is unarguably one of the best pig songs ever, yet it doesn't make release? and they pile on the bad (we might as well come out and say it) "yohoho" instead? i'd also like to hear more of their older works, perhaps with a bit of a retooling with their new sound. instead, many of the tracks sound like the studio songs, just not as clear and with worse vocals--sasha's voice seemed to fade out a bit on some of the tracks, and he didn't have that much emotion or energy.overall, a nice release but not worth the price. good for collectors/fans/what-have-you, but newcomers should try a different album (*cough cough* NIHIL *cough cough*)."

Great Show, limited album

Paul Lastovica | Baytown, TX United States | 02/11/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Having seen the Sturm and Drang tour in Houston and Austin, the thought of having the concert translated to an album was very exciting. Kmfdm DOES have an amazing live performance, and the album captures some of this...however, that is not the bone I have to pick. A few of the songs didn't make the cut for good reason I'm sure. Even still, I was expecting a more complete translation of the live experience. Godlike, for example, is missing from this disc, by far the highlight (and end) of the show. 2 of the 4 Pig songs performed are also absent (the only good one's a dead one and Everything). Also missing in action is Kmfdm's Skurk, Preach Pervert, Urban Monkey Warfare and Rules. Understandably, the disc probably didn't have enough memory available to capture the entire show, but a 2 disc set of higher quality would've been a worthy purchase. I understand there is to be a DVD to be released of the S&D 2002 tour, hopefully it will corret these few oversights.
Despite these minor rants the scaled down live show present here makes for solid listening, and brings back memories of the show (for those of us who were there) and brings also a desire to see it again."