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Vapor Transmissions
by Orgy

Orgy reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 58 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.1 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
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LABEL: Elementree/Reprise
RELEASE DATE: 10 October 2000
DISCS: 1 disc
GENRE(S): Alternative, Rock

What The Critics Said

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100
Alternative Press
Vapor Transmissions is a hymnal for brave new citizens who have adopted The Matrix as a religion while using artifice as deception for their sinister subtexts. [#146, p.81]
80
All Music Guide
With their second album Vapor Transmission, they return to deliver another set of electronic-laden rockers, but this time out they do so with slicker production and improved songwriting.
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70
Neumu.net
This is gloriously trashy glam-rock with an updated cybernetic edge.
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70
Billboard
A non-stop industrialized assault that combines grinding guitars, shrill synths, with pulsating bass and drum lines and vein-popping vocals. The 13-track set drives without relent from song to song, leaving listeners spent like a good workout.
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67
Entertainment Weekly
Orgy's campy Orwellian visions make Vapor Transmission more fun than frightful. [10/13/2000, p.83]
60
CDNow
But just as a couple of cool originals on its debut distinguished Orgy from the Antichrist Superstar cover bands current working the bar circuit, if only slightly, so too do a clutch of strong tunes on this, its second album.
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60
HOB.com
In spite of cosmetic differences, though, much of Vapor Transmission hints at a gaudy, synth-driven interpretation of Korn.
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60
Checkout.com
Vapor Transmission, the follow-up to Orgy's 1998 debut, Candyass, is as sci-fi, inorganic and over-produced as the title implies. Sometimes the stainless steel robotics work, and sometimes they don't.
60
Spin
They're an American band that sound like British Francophiles, right down to the pip-pip accent in leader Jay Gordon's Gary Numan pout. [12/2000, p.223]
60
Rolling Stone
Marilyn Manson-isms still haunt singer Jay Gordon, but this time he binds his secondhand poetics to a forward-looking glam too catchy to be denied.
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58
Wall of Sound
An album awash in old new wave sonics, borrowed Ziggy-isms, and facile science fiction claptrap. As you'd expect with an album called Vapor Transmission, it suffers from quite a bit of gas.
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50
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
Aiming to fill the Queenhole by injecting video-game sci-fi and radio-head sonics into a pop-metal base, the Korn protégés forge a "startling vision of a future world in which communications technology has been turned against us, becoming a tool for government surveillance rather than personal convenience." Gosh, how'd they think of that?
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40
New Musical Express
Amusingly, Los Angeles nu-metal types Orgy look like Duran Duran after being chewed on by giant robots. The problem is, as this hugely stupid sci-fi concept album grinds on towards the 30th century, they sound that way, too.
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40
MTV.com
Orgy sounds a lot like Marilyn Manson on this album, with touches of David Bowie and New Wave techno-pop added for flavor. The results are completely derivative... The result is an album that is often amazing sonically, occasionally gripping musically, pretty dopey lyrically, and absolutely empty in terms of real substance.
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20
Q Magazine
Singer Jay Gordon spends much of the record predictably preening his way through third-hand Bowie and third-rate Simon LeBon impressions while the band labour on a set of half-baked electro-metal...
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this album is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 39 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

matt w gave it a10:
ORGY is the best freaking band !!! they kik ass.

Randy B gave it a4:
This record is supposed to be a dark concept album about everyone’s lives being taken over by technology in a futuristic world. What it ends up being is a sad attempt at what Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals was (only here it’s computers instead of drugs), and it pales in comparison. Perhaps Vapor’s biggest problems are that it’s a copycat album, and it can’t hold up to the brilliance of Manson’s concept or lyrics and it steals its main idea from The Matrix. Sometimes it’s good, as in ‘Eyes-Radio-Lies’ and ‘Re-creation’, but most of the time it’s programming tries to mask its incredible silliness.

roy gave it an8:
Although orgy isnt a technically great band, and they do remind me of the worst of marilyn manson and static x group of bands, they more than make that up with one of the greatest science fiction themed atmospheres ever. definitely one of the greatest numetal albums ever.

nicholas e gave it a10:
ived loved every orgy song iv ever heard before and after this cd this is one to defanitly to be bought its an orgy for your ears

Candyassis#1 nigger gave it a 6:
Candyass had an awsome dark futuristik sound that made me think man i love this CD. On the other hand, VT kinda made me think that this is a bit to weird for me. I think it's beacuse they went a little too futruistic on this album which made it kinda fruity. Candyass had more of a dark techno rock beat which is why i'm more interested in it. Candyass is better cuz it went platinum, VT is Gold. Nuff said.

Jon S gave it a 9:
REALLY AWESOME. The only problem with this CD (from a GREAT band) is that it didn't make me almost tear in utter happiness the whole time. In other words, it's musical quality could have been completely amazing.

Oscar Gabriel P gave it a 10:
This is a great CD. Orgy shows that they matured during the 2 years they took to make this record. Candyass is a bit more raw, while Vapor Transmission maintains that while sounding a lot more electronic. Every track is good, you can listen to the whole cd without skipping any tracks. Outstanding tracks are "Fiction(Dreams in Digital)", "Eva", "Eyes Radio-Lies", and "Re-Creation".

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