Satellite (album)
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September 11, 2001 |
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| Label (s) | Atlantic Records | ||||||||
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CD, MP3 |
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Title (number) |
15th |
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53:04 |
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Howard Benson with POD |
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Studio (s) |
March to May 2001 at Bay 7 in Valley Village and Sparky Dark in Calabasas, California |
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Satellite is the fourth studio album of American nu-metal - band P.OD
History of origin
The band was founded in 1992 and released the albums Snuff the Punk (1994) and Brown (1996). However, these were not sold through a major label . However, since the two albums sold over 40,000 copies, POD managed to grab the attention of such a record label and were signed to Atlantic Records . Her major debut The Fundamental Elements of Southtown made it to number 51 on the Billboard 200.
It was only with Satelite, however, that the band achieved their international breakthrough in the wake of the commercially successful Nu-Metal wave at the beginning of the new millennium. It was recorded in early 2001 and produced by Howard Benson , who was already the producer for Motörhead and Sepultura albums and who was also hired for the previous album . It was released in the USA on September 11, 2001. In Germany, the album was only released in February 2002. Nevertheless, the singles Alive and Youth of the Nation had already successfully placed in the charts. Thus the release date in Europe has already been brought forward by two weeks. A club tour in Germany was completely sold out before the actual release. This was also followed by appearances at the German festivals Rock am Ring and Rock im Park . In addition to Alive and Youth of the Nation , Boom and the title track followed as third and fourth single, for which music videos were shot.
reception
In the US, the album received three platinum awards by August 26, 2002. Satellite received further awards for music sales in Canada (platinum), as well as in Australia and Germany (both gold). Furthermore, the group has been nominated several times for international music prizes, such as the Echo Award and the POD 2003 in the category of artist / group international alternative rock . In 2002 the group was already six times for an MTV Video Music Award in the categories Best Video of the Year , Best Group Video , Best Direction , Best Special Effects , as well as Viewer's Choice for the single Alive and in the category Best Rock Video for the video for Youth of the Nation nominated. In the end, however, the band came away empty-handed. Even at the 44th Grammy Awards in 2002, the band with Alive could not hold their own against the competition. The award for Best Hard Rock Performance went to Linkin Park for the song Crawling . A year later, the band was nominated in two categories (again Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance ) for the songs Youth of the Nation and Portrait, respectively, but lost the award to the Foo Fighters for All My Life and Korn for Here to Stay .
Marcus Schleutermann from the German magazine Rock Hard spoke of a Nu Metal milestone that "stands out from the stupid rubbish of the Fred Durst & Co. brand ." Above all, he praised the guitar work of Marcos Curiel, who "works with melancholy licks that get under your skin and only unpacks the riff ax at certain points." The album was classified in the "Dynamite" category and received a final rating of nine out of ten points.
Michael Edele from Laut.de was of the opinion that the album should be recommended to everyone who "is fed up with Fred Durst and his noses". He was convinced of the collaborations with POD's idols, with which one would have "messed up" pretty cool reggae sounds. The whole thing would never "sound" artificial and would be skilfully mixed with the harder tones at any time. " He put the song Without Jah, Nothin in the foreground. He described the songs Celestial and Guitarras De Amor as fillers and awarded them four out of five possible stars.
Dani Schmötzer from the e-magazine Powermetal.de judged that alternating "beatings" and "calm melodies" would create a "good middle ground" and not only " appeal to the tough people" (?). The band would have been more dignified compared to their tougher predecessor The Fundamental Elements Of Southdown , but that doesn't mean that the album is bad: "In any case, they do a really good piece of work with this disc that can be damn fun . "
Stefan Popp from Metal1.Info was much more critical. Although the band has a different image as devout Christians, songs like the opener Set It Off could come from any Nu-Metal band. It also bothered him that singer Sonny Sandoval would do too many rap performances. So be with Alive just a good track on the album. With the rest of the material you would just copy yourself, which would sound "either sluggish and boring or pseudoheavy and annoying". He only awarded 3.5 out of ten possible points.
Chart placements
Album charts
For the first time the band placed in the charts outside of the US with an album. The album made it to number five in Germany and Austria. In the USA, it reached another top ten position with sixth place. In Great Britain and Switzerland, the album was also well represented at number 16 and number 11 respectively. The following albums were less successful due to the commercial decline of Nu Metal from 2003 and for the most part only managed to achieve chart positions again only in the USA.
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| 2001 | Satellite |
DE5 (32 weeks) DE |
AT5 (31 weeks) AT |
CH11 (24 weeks) CH |
UK16 (6 weeks) UK |
US6 (71 weeks) US |
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Single charts
The first three singles reached chart positions. The second single Youth of the Nation, which became a hit in Europe and is one of the most famous songs of the band, was particularly successful . The song was ranked highest in Germany with fifth place. In Austria and Switzerland, the song made it to eleventh and 16th place respectively. Youth of the Nation entered the UK (36th place) and the USA (28th place). Boom was used by the German TV broadcaster ProSieben as background music for the presentation of the TV highlights in January 2002. It only reached number 83 in the German Media Control single charts , while the final release, Satellite , was unable to make it into the regular hit lists.
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| 2001 | Alive |
DE16 (11 weeks) DE |
AT11 (16 weeks) AT |
CH51 (11 weeks) CH |
UK19 (6 weeks) UK |
US41 (20 weeks) US |
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| 2002 | Youth of the Nation |
DE5 (12 weeks) DE |
AT11 (17 weeks) AT |
CH16 (15 weeks) CH |
UK36 (2 weeks) UK |
US28 (19 weeks) US |
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| 2002 | boom |
DE83 (3 weeks) DE |
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| 2002 | Satellite | - | - | - | - | - | |
Track list
The "special edition" of the album included a DVD with live recordings of the songs Set It Off , Without Jah, Nothin , Youth of the Nation , and Outkast . The documentation Into the Satellite (Behind the Scenes) can also be found.
| # | title | length | comment | |
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| 1 | Set it off | 4:16 | ||
| 2 | Alive | 3:23 | First single | |
| 3 | boom | 3:08 | Third single | |
| 4th | Youth of the Nation | 4:19 | Second single | |
| 5 | Celestial | 1:24 | Instrumental piece | |
| 6th | Satellite | 3:30 | Title track, fourth and final single | |
| 7th | Ridiculous | 4:17 | feat. Eek-a-Mouse | |
| 8th | The Messenjah | 4:19 | ||
| 9 | Guitarras de Amor | 1:14 | Instrumental piece | |
| 10 | Anything Right | 4:17 | feat. Christian Lindskog from Blindside | |
| 11 | ghetto | 3:37 | ||
| 12 | Masterpiece Conspiracy | 3:11 | ||
| 13 | Without Jah Nothin | 3:01 | feat. HR from Bad Brains | |
| 14th | Thinking About Forever | 3:46 | ||
| 15th | portrait | 4:32 |
Bonus title
- Critic (from the maxi single Satellite )
- Whatever It Takes (soundtrack of the film Every Damn Sunday , as well as bonus track on some European versions of the album)
- Rock the Party (included on the Japanese edition)
- Alive (semi-acoustic remix) (bonus track on Satellite re-release )
- Youth of the Nation (Conjure One remix) (bonus track on Satellite re-release )
- Boom ( The Crystal Method remix) (bonus track on Satellite re-release )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b P.OD at Laut.de ( Memento from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Review by Laut.de
- ^ POD at RIAA
- ↑ Music sales Canada ( Memento of November 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Music sales Australia
- ↑ Music sales in Germany
- ↑ POD Echo ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ MTV Video Music Awards 2002
- ^ Grammy Awards 2002
- ^ Grammy Awards 2003
- ↑ Review of Rock Hard
- ^ Review by Powermetal.de
- ↑ Review by Metal1.Info ( memento of the original from February 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
