| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/dream Works Records | | UPC: 00600445029323 | | Release Date: 3/6/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60466162 | | Item#: MCDNMD | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23647 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2001 SKG Music L.L.C.
(C) 2001 SKG Music L.L.C.
| In 2001, Alien Ant Farm released their single "Movies," which was immediately overshadowed by the band's most prominent hit, "Smooth Criminal," which had gone to No. 1 on the modern rock charts. Making the Michael Jackson tune a single had not been part of the game plan. It had slipped out of the band's control when a few radio program directors spun it a couple of times and got an immediate positive response. Their album ANThology went platinum, selling more than three million copies worldwide. After the smashing success of "Smooth Criminal," Alien Ant Farm re-released their first single, "Movies" and followed it up with the Latin-influenced "Attitude."
"More diverse than you might think..." E! Online
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Alien Ant Farm: Dryden Mitchell (vocals, acoustic guitar); Terence Corso (acoustic & electric guitars); Tye Zamora (guitar, keyboards, bass, bassadilla, background vocals); Mike Cosgrove (drums). | | Recorded at NRG Recording Services, North Hollywood, California. | | "Smooth Criminal" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. | | West Coast pop metal outfit Alien Ant Farm's major label debut is actually their sophomore album--their first was voted 1999 independent album of the year at the LA Music awards. ANTHOLOGY is the kind of speed metal that fans of Papa Roach will find familiar (the Ant Farm's label, New Noize, is Papa Roach's imprint), played with just the right combination of pop smarts and populist punk energy. | | "Courage" kicks off the album in the way it means to continue, with a barrage of speed drumming, some feisty-sounding riffage, and Dryden Mitchell's angsty vocals, which are an obvious focal point of the band's sound. Alien Ant Farm's first single, "Movies," recalls several styles, tossing some late '80s indie rock and a smattering of Pearl Jam into its potent mix, while the intro to "Flesh and Bone" conjures memories of '80s warhorses the Police before its chorus escalates into full millennial thrash mode. |
Producer: Jay Baumgardner |
Engineer: James Murray |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/06/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 450 293 | | Label : Dreamworks SKG | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00600445029323 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (5/24/01, p.84)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Showcases the quartet's drum-tight heaviness as it twists in layers of nuance and wit....Finally, a band packs enough balls to put the melody back in metal."NME (Magazine)
(3/31/01, p.31)
- 6 out of 10 - "...Tracks shimmer with malevolent guitars and raw-throated hollering....There's more than an echo of the Deftones' dark churn on their more expansive songs....Yet hidden under the pit floor are frankly scarier prospects...like [their] cover of Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal'..." |
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| | Bio | | | Alien Ant Farm In 1995 in the Californian town of Riverside, four young, creative musicians fused their ambitions and talents together to form the rock band Alien Ant Farm. AAF was called into life by guitarist Terry Corso and drummer Mike Cosgrove, who hand-picked some of the best local musicians from various other bands. "We started moonlighting on our [other] bands and eventually quit them all," says Terry Corso. Tye Zamora was playing guitar at the time but wanted to switch to bass, while Dryden Mitchell played in local band Dragonphlie. The band briefly floated the idea of wearing masks to conceal their identities on stage but then realized the chemistry was just too good to ignore. The unusual name of the band stemmed from guitarist Terry Corso: "I was daydreaming at my dull desk job with my feet up, and I thought to myself, 'Wouldn't it be cool if the human species were placed on earth and cultivated by alien intelligence?' Maybe the aliens added us to an atmosphere that was suitable for us, and they've been watching us develop and colonize, kind of like what a kid does with an ant farm, where the aliens are the kids and humans are the ants." Word of the band began to saturate the underground music scene as early as 1996, when they played their first gig together on Dryden's 20th birthday and later the same year, released their first demo, "$100 Demo." Alien Ant Farm became instantly known for their energetic live shows and pulsing rock beat. A strong loyal following began to sprout up throughout Southern California with the release of their second demo in 1998, "Love Songs," and the band started extensively touring all through the western region of the U.S. The buzz about the band did not stop there. Each new performance birthed new fans planting firm stakes in Alien Ant Farm's soil.
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