Carcass - Wake Up And Smell... The Carcass (1996) + Same name DVD (2001)

Collection of Carcass' rarities - tracks from EPs, various compilation, BBC Radio show, and 5 unreleased song from the "Swansong" session. Expanded with the same name DVD, first released on VHS in 1996 and reissued on DVD in 2001. Featuring five music videos and two live performances.

When Carcass finally called it a day after ten years of some of the most disgusting music in existence, casual observers couldn't be blamed for wondering what the point of a collection of rarities, demos, and the like would be. However, Carcass did mutate and change over time, a fact little appreciated by those who only know their initial blasts of vocal and musical insanity. That's why Wake Up serves as both a gift for fans and a not-bad way for newcomers to figure out what the heck is going on. Arranged in reverse chronological order, starting with leftover numbers from the Swansong sessions and concluding with a version of the classic "Exhume to Consume" from the Grindcrusher compilation, Wake Up is in many ways a model retrospective package. Detailed, appreciative liner notes go over the band's complete history while explaining the origins of all the tracks, while tons of photos of the group in its full long-haired glory crop up throughout. The sound is crisp and clear throughout; about the only thing missing is the intentionally hilarious, over-the-top lyrics which accompanied most of their albums. The later selections showcase both the more deliberate, less crazily psychotic playing and curt images of general darkness in place of biological grue. The surprisingly pretty guitar chime of "Ever Increasing Circles" demonstrates the band's abilities to move beyond the expected. Best title and lyrics of the bunch – "I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Does Suck)". Tracks from both the Heartwork and Tools of the Trade EPs will satisfy rarity hunters, while a great BBC radio session from 1994 is included in full. "No Love Lost" is very much not the Joy Division track of the same name, instead being a reworking of a Heartwork cut.

~ Johnny Loftus, all media guide

CD - Tracklist:

01. Edge Of Darkness
02. Emotional Flatline
03. Ever Increasing Circles
04. Blood Spattered Banner
05. I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Does Suck)
06. Buried Dreams
07. No Love Lost
08. Rot 'N' Roll
09. Edge Of Darkness
10. This Is Your Life
11. Rot 'N' Roll
12. Tools Of The Trade
13. Pyosisified (Still Rotten To The Gore)
14. Hepatic Tissue Fermentation II
15. Genital Grinder II
16. Hepatic Tissue Fermentation
17. Exhume To Consume



all songs arranged by Carcass
Recording information: 1988 - 1995
Compiled by Mitch Dickinson & Jeff Walker
Executive Producer: Digby Pierson

• Jeff Walker - vocals, bass
• Bill Steer - guitars (and backing vocals on 12-14, 16-17)
• Ken Owen - drums (and backing vocals on 12, 14-17)
• Mike Amott - lead guitar on tracks 12-13
• Carlo Regadas - lead guitar on tracks 1-9

CD Release Date: November 12, 1996
Format: 1st press, Original Recording
Label: Earache Records (US)
Catalog No.: MOSH-161CD



DVD - Content:

01. Heartwork
02. Corporal Jigsore Quandary
03. Keep on Rotting In The Free World
04. Incarnated Solvent Abuse
05. No Love Lost
06. Inpropagation
07. Corporal Jigsore Quandary
08. Reek of Putrefaction
09. Pedigree Butchery
10. Incarnated Solvent Abuse
11. Carneous Cacoffiny
12. Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide Composition
13. Exhume To Consume
14. Tools Of The Trade
15. Ruptured In Purulence
16. Genital Grinder II
17. Exhume To Consume
18. Excoriating Abdominal Emanation
19. Ruptured In Purulence
20. Empathological Necroticism
21. Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment
22. Reek Of Putrefaction

Tracks 1-5 is the band's promo videos
6-15 - live from the London Astoria on 18 March 1992 (as part of the "Gods Of Grind" tour)
16-22 - live from Nottingham Rock City on 14 November 1989 (as part of the "Grindcrusher" tour)


Original Release Date: November 1996
DVD Release Date: June 26, 2001
Original format: DVD5
Label: Earache/Soyuz (2006)
Catalog No.: MOSH-247DVD