Does Cleopatra Records almost exclusively release AWFUL material on purpose?

not really

I like this cover.

The Guru Guru CD box was better than fair. The first disc of it containing much from the primitive power trio version of the band.

I like all the Chrome stuff as well as anything remotely related to it.

Actually the In Parts Assembled Solely ep is really good. I also knew a girl who had a Cleopatra records tattoo--but she pretended she didn't. "It's the Eye of RA!" she'd insist, like that is in any way cooler than having a fucking Cleopatra logo tattoo.

they did a decent job with the Kluster and System 7 CDs. and the first Psychic TV Hex Sex comp is a handy round-up indeed. they did totally botch Force Thee Hands ov Chance, though.

how is(?) Cleopatra related to Dressed to Kill? just to pick on another laughably shoddy org offering cut-rate product for cut-rate prices.

Hellooooo, Kraftwerk (Yes, Cleopatra was, at one time, the U.S. distributor for Kraftwerk CDs.. shudder and shudder again), Brainticket, Hawkwind, Executive Slacks, and The Whip soundtrack (which was amended when Cleo took it over and removed the original black and grey cartoon monster finger that was actually, you know, cool looking, and replaced it with underaged Propaganda magazine model rejects in bondage involving a whip. Get it? The Whip? ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRG CLEOPATRA DIE DIE DIE... What's worse than a bad record label? A record label with decent taste that makes album covers sooo bad, that you're embarrassed to buy them, even used and with good musical content... I think I can count the number of exceptions on one hand.. The Damned's Strawberries being one of them)

I was looking at a Germs DVD in the store and it had about 10 minutes of actual footage and the rest was some kind of slide show. Is that the one?

did they release Brainticket's Adventure as Celestial Ocean (and vice versa)?

Hmm, maybe. I dunno. So my copy of Celestial Ocean with the weird gaps between the tracks might actually be Adventure?

Let me add to the Chrome lurv, though I still think the Dossier CDs are the peak of ridiculo.

Ooh, I hope so.

does running (nu metal) Limp Bizkit through the filter of nu metal have some kind of interference effect, canceling itself out? Is that track just 5 minutes of silence?

What about Rowan Atkinson?

I have the Subterranean original and the Cleopatra iteration is superior. Let no snob tell you otherwise. It has quite a few things included that the original did not. First, all the selections by Chrome from the Subterranean Modern comp. Not necessary but not unwelcome.

The best material from "Third from the Sun," which came after the
Chrome box. Most notably, the "Firebomb" single and "Armageddon."
Contains all or most of "Red Exposure," which was never included in
the original box but fell in the same time period as everything else
included in it.

There's a live cut from an Eighties show in Italy. And the rest of the originals -- "Alien Soundtracks" which is fine, "Half Machine Lip Moves," the high point, The Gehenna Lion Chronicles things, bores of whooshing space rock, "No Humans Allowed," and "Blood On the Moon."

The only thing that was left off and obviously jumped out at me was "I Am the Jaw," a noise piece which took up an entire side, I think, of one of the originals.

I also liked the Synaethesia stuff I heard but it was only a few tracks.

Take (oh, please!) the Passion of Covers collection of third-rate Bauhaus knock-offs. Of course, Cleopatra had spellin' problems...ha ha

the first song is BELA LUGOSIE'S (sic) DEAD by Electric Hellfire Club

The spelling errors on Cleopatra's CDs are too numerous to mention here. Maybe someone can add more...start a thread. Their re-issue campaigns could always be counted on to look as cheap as possible.

Dropping their own lame-ass offerings (Brainticket, Kraftwelt) into otherwise legit comps featuring Gong, Chrome, Tangerine Dream etc...unforgivable

They also had an incredibly lame band (Spahn Ranch) whose singer (Athan) was the publicist for the label and always turned each conversation into an impassioned pitch for his sub-scary nonsense. It's hard to make labels like Projekt and Invisible and the like look like the professional gold standard but Cleopatra managed. Well done.

Oh dear god, that explains it.

Brainticket are a real Kraut band! Their Cottonwood Hill is fucking amazing!

They're actually from Switzerland, but, yes, they are fucking amazing. Cleopatra fucked up the reissues of Brainticket's Voyage and Adventure, mistakenly reversing the music for each disc. Idiots.

Catastrophe Ballet?

What's up with the Dossier CDs? Are they poor quality? They seem to go for a lot of money on Ebay. I got Red Exposure on vinyl recently and that's on Dossier, haven't got round to listening to it yet though.

Disk One
1) ARCANA-In the wake of adversity
2) PERSHEPHONE-Spirit
3) DANNY LILKER (NUCLEAR ASSAULT)-Cantara
4) ATARAXIA-Bylar
5) FAITH AND THE MUSE-Mesmerism
6) TRAIL OF TEARS-The arcane
7) HORTUS ANIMAE (w/ Liv Kristine Espenaes of THEATRE OF TRAGEDY)-Summoning of the muse
8) AMBER ASYLUM-Cardinal sin
9) GRIDO- Oman
10) ANATHEMA – How fortunate if the man with none
11) HELENA IREN MICHAELSEN (ex TRAIL OF TEARS)- The lotus eaters
12) EPHEMERAL SUN- Avatar off
13) SARAH JEZABEL DEVA- The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Disk Two
1) BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL-Fortune present gifts not according to the book
2) JARBOE (ex SWANS)-American dreaming
3) ANTIMMATER-Black sun
4) THE GATHERING- In power we entrust the love advocated
5) NIGHTFALL-The obiguitous Mr. lovegrove
6) DARKWELL-Anywhere out of the world
7) GREEN CARNATION- Cantara
8) ULVER-In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings
9) AKRABU- Desert song
10) NOEKK (ex EMPYRIUM)-How fortunate is the man with none
11) IMPERIAL BLACK (new band of CRADLE OF FILTH bassist)- Enigma of the Absolute
12) SECRETS OF THE MOON& NOSTALLGIA - The Protagonist- The Protagonist
13) MONUMENTUM – The trial
14) SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE – Summoning Of the Muse (Deconstructed)

you can get it from The End really cheap:

http://shopping.theendrecords.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.2062/it.A/id.6523/.f

Are they poor quality?

Basically what Damon did was license a rerelease of each of the original albums but tacked on one of his crap Helios-less albums as a 'bonus.' I have no problem at all The Visitation, you understand -- it's just weird and catchy enough -- but that was also the very first album before Helios joined. All the stuff after he left...dear god.

I don't much like The Visitation. Half Machine, Alien Soundtracks, Red Exposure, Third From The Sun, Blood on the Moon are all great though.

I just wanted to post here that ARTIMUS PYLE has an album recently released on Cleopatra.

the band or the guy?

the guy.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri400/i439/i43995khcg3.jpg

1. Artimus Venomus
2. Brother Walk On By
3. Blood Sucking Weasel Attorneys
4. Dead Rock Stars' Widows, Gigolos, Pocket Money
5. Spit
6. Can't Get Off With Your Shoes On
7. Million Dollar Farm
8. Jerusalem
9. Trust No.3
10. Knock Me Down
11. Makes More Rock
12. Anti Venom

since The Law dictates that cleopatra stuff always turns up for $1 or less, i would consider buying that. bad cod-psych cover, bad song titles.

lol @ "great zeppelin: a tribute to led zeppelin"

I have a reissue of Keith Leblanc's Major Malfunction on Cleopatra, on which the track order is reversed. (Each side was a single long medley of tracks, and this one has Track/Side 2 first, followed by Track/Side 1. Since the album was a concept record of sorts, this kinda fucks with listener appreciation a little bit.)

lol @ "great zeppelin: a tribute to led zeppelin"

coming soon, Gosh Darn That's Some Good Pink Floyd and Reasonably Acceptable Rush

Meh: A Tribute to The Guess Who

hehe

their website is just so confusing. new releases from the stooges, chrome, berlin, and billie holiday!

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oh and they've got that live gin blossoms album you needed too!

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http://www.cleorecs.com/

What not to post.