CONFESSION: I KIND OF LIKE POWERMAN 5000
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 1:00pm by Vince Neilstein
Not in the “OMG PM5K rulez!!!” kind of way; in fact, I don’t own and haven’t even heard any of their full albums. But in the “when the song comes on the radio I don’t change it, and I kind of enjoy it” type of way. In fact, just yesterday their early-oughts hit “Free” came on in my iTunes, and I quite enjoyed it. And their new track “Super Villain,” available on their MySpace page, is full of just the same kind of straight-ahead industrial rock goodness. Nothing new, high-brow or experimental here; it’s just fun. If you’re a Rob Zombie fan there’s no reason you shouldn’t enjoy these dudes, family relations aside.
The rap in the middle of the song is inexcusable. Inexcusable. But we’ll just have to excuse that for now. “Super Villain” comes from an in-the-works album with a release date and name TBA.
-VN
I also enjoy them. Tonight the Stars Revolt and Anyone for Doomsday? are great. Nothing serious about them at all, no rap, good medium-heavy industrial metal. Transform is the only other album of theirs I’ve heard and I don’t like it much, but those two are always fun.
Tonight the Stars Revolt was annoyingly catchy. Don’t know how many times I burned through that album on repeat while writing papers or some other monotonous tasks.
I like Rob Zombie and PM5K. They sort of laid the foundation for the transformation of my musical taste from rock to metal, and I’ve always enjoyed going back and listening to their old stuff.
More love for PM5K. Tonight The Stars was grand, and Mega!! Kung Fu Radio has a special place in my heart, too, if only for the fact that it contained a song called “Organizized.”
They’re ok. Not great. I have one album and if my iPod shuffles a song, I’m about 25% inclined to stay with it.
Love PM5K. Sure, the only “inventive” thing they ever had going was the funk metal feel on Mega!!, but everything up to Destroy What You Enjoy was solid heavy metal.
Totally underrated band. Excellent live show; and the last two discs had some killer stuff –
“A Is For Apathy” and “Wild World” very worth a .99 cent download. And the “Bombshell” video is pretty awesome, too!
I’m not so sure why this is a “confession”.. PM5K is quality industrial metal. Tonight the stars revolt was an awesome CD.
PM5K were good until they took off the space suits and started wearing distressed jeans.
Once upon a time PM5K put on a great opening act when I saw them with Primus. I really liked Mega! kung fu radio and tonight the stars revolt, but not enough to stop me from trading them in earlier this year after collecting dust in my apartment for many years.
PM5K is fun in an “I’m a jock and I like metal too” kind of way. I got their first two albums for free and I can’t even remember what happened to those disks… and I could care less. One of those bands everyone will forget about until Vince confesses another flashback band! They had one hit, and not on their last release. I’m more interested in seeing if you guys find something on the album to write about than what the album actually sounds like.
I’m always thought they were a decent band. “Bombshell” is a pretty awesome song if you don’t feel like thinking and just wanna listen to music.
Totally underrated band that disappeared from the limelight after nu-metal died. While Spyder had to replace pretty much all the band members, it’s nice to hear Dave Pino, (of Seemless, Graveyard BBQ, Waltham, Damone, and many more) on this new recording finally.
Woa, so they’re back to industrial? Last I head from them(some song that involved “World” in the title) they sounded much more punk and hard rock influence…actually there wasn’t a hit of industrial in the entire song.
I did sort of enjoy them back in the day…tho I don’t think they’re anywhere near as good as Zombie.
how perfectly ironic.. i actually put on tonight the stars revolt today for the first time since i left for college about 4 years ago..
Heh, I don’t mind Powerman, and I really like Mega!! Kung Fu Radio. “Ya git the head, the tail, the whole damn thing…”
Mega!! Kung Fu Radio was fucking awesome. One of the most original sounding records at the time. Tonight the Stars Revolt was a great radio rock record. After that, they kind of imploded. Transform, I bought because I didn’t know what to expect. When I heard it, I didn’t like it. Their newest one, I only heard the single through watching the video and it was just scary. I really wasn’t digging the whole “Spider does Billy Idol” vibe. I’d really love it if they’d go back to some iteration similar to their earlier albums. We’ll see.
Rob, do you write for Alanis? That’s a coincidence, not really ironic. Powerman is boring both live and on record.
lol, they are good, I saw them in dallas a few years back….there was like 20 people there so the band played and then invited all of us to the strip club, lol
They’re a cock rock band, fo’ sho’… but Tonight the Stars Revolt was a pretty sweet album back in the day.
ok how can you say metal sucks what do you listen to boybands and hip hop? what do you listen to when you need to get pumped up r kelly? I mean seriously its good to have your own opinion but I can’t honestly understand how you can try and bash a whole genera of music when you prob. havent even heard any real good songs. Thats like me saying all rap or hip hop sucks based on the few songs I have heard but I dont because there prob is good rap and hip hop out there.