Some Kind of Strange
| Some Kind of Strange | ||||
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| Released | April 22, 2003 | |||
| Studios | Noiseplus (Los Angeles, California) | |||
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| Length | 56:25 | |||
| Label | Noiseplus | |||
| Producer | Statik | |||
| Collide chronology | ||||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
.jpg) 2018 instrumental version cover | ||||
Some Kind of Strange is the third studio album by Collide, released on April 22, 2003 by Noiseplus Music.[1][2][3][4]
A video for "Euphoria" was directed by Kevin McVey. This was released on the 2005 DVD "Like the Hunted".
A special edition was released on October 31, 2020. This CD+Blu-ray re-release featured the full album remixed and remastered from the original tracks, the original mix, a 5.1 mix, instrumentals, early versions, previously unreleased bonus tracks, video footage, and other content.
Reception
In Music We Trust said the band "churns out a heady cacophony of futuristic and mechanized sounds powered by distorted guitars, robotic rhythms and bigger-than-life synthesized symphonics, and then caps off the beautiful mess with the super-sensual, threatening purrs and dangerous coos of Collide's vampy vocalist"[5]
Track listing
All music is composed by Collide.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Crushed" | 5:19 |
| 2. | "Euphoria" | 5:27 |
| 3. | "Modify" | 5:56 |
| 4. | "Somewhere" | 6:16 |
| 5. | "Slither Thing" | 4:00 |
| 6. | "Inside" | 4:09 |
| 7. | "Mutation" | 4:30 |
| 8. | "Tempted" | 6:43 |
| 9. | "Shimmer" | 5:24 |
| 10. | "Complicated" | 4:36 |
| 11. | "So Long" | 4:05 |
| Total length: | 56:25 | |
| No. | Title | Remixer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12. | "Euphoria" (Emirian Mix - Video Edit) |
| 4:45 |
| 13. | "Empire" (previously unreleased) | 5:01 | |
| 14. | "Gotta Hold On Me" (previously unreleased) | 4:37 | |
| 15. | "Twilight Moment" (previously unreleased) | 3:47 | |
| 16. | "Sick Spider" (previously unreleased) | 2:26 | |
| Total length: | 20:36 | ||
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Modify" (acoustic version) | |
| 2. | "Euphoria" (ambient mix) |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Crushed" (Early Version) | 3:56 |
| 2. | "Euphoria" (Early Version) | 3:29 |
| 3. | "Modify" (Early Version) | 3:06 |
| 4. | "Somewhere" (Early Version) | 5:13 |
| 5. | "Slither Thing" (Early Version) | 3:53 |
| 6. | "Inside" (Early Version) | 3:31 |
| 7. | "Mutation" (Early Version) | 4:08 |
| 8. | "Tempted" (Early Version) | 6:36 |
| 9. | "Shimmer" (Early Version) | 5:34 |
| 10. | "Complicated" (Early Version) | 4:39 |
| Total length: | 44:05 | |
Personnel
Adapted from the Some Kind of Strange liner notes.[6]
Collide
- Statik – noises, production, engineering, mixing
- kaRIN – vocals
Additional performers
- Kevin Crompton (as cEvin Key) – live drums (2)
- Rogerio Silva – additional acoustic guitar and electric guitar (2, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (3, 5), guitar (9, 10)
- Kevin Kipnis – additional guitar and bass (2), electric guitar (6, 10), additional acoustic guitar
- Dave Keffer (as Kef) – bass and additional keyboard (6)
- Gilbert Levy – live percussion (4, 8, 9)
- X-8 – additional electric guitar (8)
- Danny Carey – live drums (engineered by Mark Walk) (4)
Production and design
- Chris Bellman – mastering
- Bernie Grundman – mastering
- Terri King – clothing
- Bridget Straus – hair
- Angel Decker – make-up
- Chad Michael Ward – cover art, inside art, band photos
- Dave Keffer (as Kef) – additional inside artwork manipulation
- X-8 – detail of texture paintings
- Collide – inside photography, layout, and design
"Slither Thing" contains a sample from the Slither Thing Amish Rake Fight Remix by Mike Fisher.[6]
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2003 | Noiseplus | CD | Noise 002 |
| Digital download | 808458200023 | |||
| 2018 | ||||
| 2020 | CD/Blu-ray | Noise-31 |
References
- ↑ "Collide Some Kind of Strange". Collide.net. Noiseplus Music. 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Collide: Some Kind of Strange > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ↑ Ditzel, Eleanor. "Collide". AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ↑ Van Isacker, Bernard (July 29, 2020). "Collide Re-Release Chasing The Ghost (20 Year Anniversary) & Some Kind of Strange Albums as Collector Versions". Side-Line Magazine. Bernard Van Isacker. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ↑ D. Lewis, Scott (August 2003). "Collide Some Kind of Strange". In Music We Trust (61). Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- 1 2 Some Kind of Strange (booklet). Collide. Los Angeles, California: Noiseplus Music. 2003.
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External links
- Some Kind of Strange at collide.net
- Some Kind of Strange at Discogs (list of releases)
- Some Kind of Strange at Bandcamp
- Some Kind of Strange at iTunes