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Advantages: Brilliant mixture of songs with great lyrics and music.
Disadvantages: Only 33 minutes long.

...Wheatus! The album contains a great mixture of pop and rock tracks with great lyrics and brilliant music! The album is only 33 minutes long but is guaranteed to bring anyone with the pleasure of listening to it hours of great musical entertainment. Here is the track list: 01 Truffles 02 Sunshine 03 Teenage Dirtbag 04 A Little Respect 05 Hump'em n' Dump'em 06 Leroy 07 Hey, Mr Brown 08 Love Is A Mutt From Hell 09 Punk Ass Bitch 10 Wannabe Gangster These are the band members and what they contributed to the album: Brendan B. Brown (Leading vocals, Guitar) Peter Brown (Drums) Mike McCabe (Bass guitar) Phil A Jimenez (Backing vocals, Percussion, Keyboards, Harmonica) This album contains a great mix of fast and slow songs, and funny and serious songs. They all contain the different but fantastic voice of Brendan Brown, and the brilliant... Read review

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Advantages: excellent
Disadvantages: none

...who put the video together to go with it, I'm really not convinced that the main song "Teenage Dirtbag" would have made it quite so big without it. Apparently, their album is heading for a third Platinum in Australia and will be available in this country later this month. Comparing the track listing of the album against the enhanced cd single, I reckon the single might be the better buy. Below is a brief summary of who they are, I definitely recommend you check them out as soon as possible. Vital Statistics Mike McCabe - ?????? (unable to find anything) Peter Brown - born 01/09/1967, Glencove, NY, USA Phil A. Jimenez - born 04/04/1975, Brendan B. Brown - born 11/10/1973, Glencove, NY, USA Discography Wheatus album - Due for release in the UK 19/02/2001... Read review

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Advantages: Plenty of energy
Disadvantages: Needs better direction

...Everyone expects a band’s own website to be complimentary about its subject, but the official Wheatus site takes the art to new levels (take a look later and you’ll see what I mean). The group itself was founded by Brendan B. Brown (guitar, vocals) and Rich Leigey (bass) in Long Island over a shared love of the great Canadian power trio of Rush; they roped in Brendan’s adoring younger brother Peter to thump the tubs and persuaded established professional musician Phil A. Jimenez to join them. About the only thing in common between the resultant sound and that of Messrs. Peart, Lifeson and Lee is that both could be labelled as “rock”. The opening track of “Wheatus” (this eponymous debut) is reminiscent of the early 90’s one-hit wonders the “Spin Doctors” in the hard... Read review

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