Track Listing

1. Dig (Live)
2. Silenced (Demo)
3. Dull Boy
4. Death Blooms (Demo)
5. Fall Into Sleep (Demo)
6. Not Falling (Demo)
7. -1 (Live)
8. Happy (Demo)
9. (Per) Version Of A Truth (Demo)
10. World So Cold (Live)
11. On The Move
12. Goodbye
13. Skrying (Demo)
14. All That You Are (Demo)
15. Forget To Remember (Acoustic)
16. King Of Pain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14267 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.com
Comprised of tracks picked by Mudvayne fans and versions of those tunes picked by the band, By the People, For the People hardly comes off like a smash-and-grab affair. Loaded with rarities--demos, live versions, and two new tracks ("Dull Boy" and a cover of the Police classic "King of Pain")--plus brief spoken word interludes to introduce each cut, the collection proves cohesive and fascinating. Demos for "Silenced" and "Death Blooms" almost overshadow the finished album versions (from The End of All Things to Come and L.D. 50, respectively), while the inclusion of wholly unbridled readings of "On the Move" and "Happy?" demonstrates why both have become fan favorites. The live cuts ("World So Cold," "Dig," and "-1") are both noisy and forgettable, but neither distracts from the overall wow factor of this collection. --Jedd Beaudoin

Customer Reviews

mudvayne rocks
The reason I gave four out of five stars is because most of the the songs are pre-recorded songs before they actually came on the the albums, other than its pretty good specially their new song dullboy.

For Mud-fanatics only
This CD contains 16 songs. If you're a Mud-fan like me, you probably already bought Mudvayne's Live Bootleg off their website so you already own all 6 live tracks. If you're a Mud-fan like me, you probably already own the collectors edition of "The End of all Things to Come" so you already own 'On the Move' and 'Goodbye'. If you're a Mud-fan like me, you probably aren't very interested in hearing a Metallica-esque cover of a Police song. That leaves 7 tracks, 6 of which are demos. The demos are interesting, but after 1 or 2 listens you'll find that you'd rather hear the studio version. The only stand-out track is the acoustic version of Forget to Remember. Overall, I was very disappointed to wait 2 1/2 years for a new album only to have it be this.

Maybe a little generous, but deserving
As I logged on to this website, I read review as you are doing right now. And as I read those reviews, I noticed people giving lower than deserving scores. I believe the reason for this phenomenom is that people are focusing on the less than positive attributes. For instance, some say that Chad introducing every track before it playing highly detracts from the content, because the listener can't get into the "flow" of listening to the music. Others claim that the music isn't fresh enough and the demo tracks are not what the fans expected because the development stage for music is not all that exciting. When in contrast to the previous statement, the fans were the deciding factor in which songs were featured on the C.D. To the positive side, the demos do accomplish the role of filling in the gaps of how Mudvayne's songs mature from the scraps and dead-ends of the development stage, to the stuff that feeds our souls over and over again. Over all, I'm not disregarding the minor flaws here and there, but this C.D. is good enough for me to take my time and defend again those unintelligent, brainless. ill-advised, nonsensical, asinine, and daft comments and remarks. Peace out Negro