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King's X | 
 enlarge | Artist: King's X
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 73639
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 82372
UPC: 075678237225
EAN: 0075678237225
ASIN: B000002ITI
Release Date: March 10, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | The World Around Me | | • | Prisoner | | • | The Big Picture | | • | Lost in Germany | | • | Chariot Song | | • | Ooh Song | | • | Not Just for the Dead | | • | What I Know About Love | | • | Black Flag | | • | Dream in My Life | | • | Silent Wind |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 If You're Not Familiar With King's X, It's Time To Get With The Knowing Kid. May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This record opened me to King's X. I now own all of their work (including solo stuff). For the longest time I felt like I was the only one who "knew". I remember going to see them a long time ago and being really happy that there was a place full of people who also "knew". Nowhere near as many as should "know" though. This is a very talented band that should have been huge for a long time now. Buy this record and then start buying all of the others. Most all of the reviews I've read for all of their stuff are accurate. Get on board and take the journey. Come on!!
 This album grooves! April 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for one song - Lost in germany! It was being played before a Whitesnake show that I went to recently and I asked the mixer who it was and got it the next day. This song is so awesome. The whole album is very good with great guitar riffs and vocal harmonies all over the place. Highly recommended to fans of melodic rock with an edge.
King's X recreated again! Brilliant!! May 10, 2007
One of the true signs of a great band, think U2 (just some trivia for ya': King's X started out as a U2 cover band), is the ability to adapt, to change your sound and stay fresh. King's X has done this over and over while still holding true to their original sound and harmonies.
This album was like a step to the right of "Faith, Hope, Love", their previous release. "F,H,L" was more music. This, King's X's 4th album but first selftitled, seems to suggest a new King's X.
The new band is one that continues to use harmonies but with deeper musical development. Each of the songs on the album is a study in music theory. They really explore and penetrate the musical landscape on this album. Don't worry, the harmonies are still there too.
Standouts on the album are: "Prisoner", "Big Picture", "Lost in Germany", "Ooh Song" which is aptly titled because of the deep soul feel, "What I Know About Love" which strikes deep for anyone that has suffered heartbreak (so, yeah, anyone), and "Black Flag" of which the video got some play on MTV and even served as fodder for 'Beavis and Butthead'. The rest of the songs round out the album well and I can't really say there are any weak offerings.
I love this CD June 2, 2006
"I Cant Resist" The first track is a barnburner and starts the whole cd off! This is one of my favorites!
A great place to start... and to come back to again and again. May 15, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm writing this review after having just seen King's X in concert for the third time. In preparation for the concert, I spent the week reviewing, rotating all of their CD's through my car CD player over the course of the week. When I got to their self titled album, I noticed (for the first time) how stripped town Jerry's drumming is on "World Around Me," a song that I've liked for many years. It amazed me that after all these years (about 15?) I am still finding little easter eggs of brilliance ALL OVER that album.
This was my first King's X album, and I recommend it to any first-time listener for the following reasons:
-It still has moments that sound like their Gretchen days
-It foreshadows what comes later, like Dogman and the amazing new Ogre Tones
-It still contains hints of their spiritual roots (okay, more than a few hints... some very cool / obscure references that only you biblical scholars out there might actually catch on first listen)
-It is an album that continues to amaze me, even after 15 years of fairly consistent listening.
If you like rock that makes you think... A LOT... you need to check out this band, and especially this album.
(I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because the album always strikes me as inconsistent... the funny thing is, there are songs on that album that take a while to grow on you. I never liked Big Picture when I first got that album, but years later, it's so much like moments in Ogre Tones that I find that it has become one of my favorite of their songs.)
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