How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Good
Value for Money
Advantages:
great alternative rock music
Disadvantages:
Kelly Jones' gnawing vocals could come annoying
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
STEREOPHONICS are = Kelly Jones: vocals, guitarist, lyricist Richard Jones: bass Stuart Cable: drums
additional musician: Marshall Bird - keyboards, piano ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This band composed of a trio consisting of a bass, drum, and guitar ala POLICE, NIRVANA, and the ilk of such quartet or triplet rock group unit’s driving force vocalist, guitarist Kelly Jones’ lyrics mainly speaks from a loser’s perspective, which makes it as something that I find not hard to relate to (writer bloke laughs).
The band was encouraged by U2’s Bono as the next ticket from the UK to take on America, so’s like as a successor to his band. Whence speaking of that – the album cover pictures a bored out woman who kind of looked like Bono’s wife Ali being kissed in a background on a number of surrounding people hugging and kissing each other who are either lovers, friends, families, along with each of the individual band members where they are the only ones who have no company.
Speaking of the album cover, the cassette copy is one of those that are such which have a broader picture compared to the cd’s inset. This album however, is by far the best one coming out from STEREOPHONICS.
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1 . r o l l u p a n d s h I n e >(##) >(##) >(##) >(# Good starter for the album, who's title resembles the album title that would come about similarly with the next pair of tracks. Sounds like rock n roll.
2 . t h e b a r t e n d e r a n d t h e t h i e f >(##) >(##) >(##) Conjures to picture a story that talks of fornication, nothing that is that much diverted from the first track's sound; the video comes as shot on some Vietnam-like surroundings on an evening with asian kids in khaki elemenatry school uniforms as audiences where the band played and was escorted out by a helicopter on their exit.
3 . h u r r y u p a n d w a i t >(##) >(##) >(##) >(##) >(# My favourite in the album. A very nice moving poignant ballad; the song's like a sentiment that military people who fought the world war or Vietnam would tell you -- in their barracks they would be told to hurry up and fall in line then wait, when sometimes they would find out that they're waiting for nothing - that after waiting for a few hours they'd be told to just head back to their quarters, perhaps with the commanders waiting for orders or if they'd be needed for something depending on what would come up. Sort of like the same perverted drill of pun they'd have us when being given the first drill on the call center where i worked for.
4 . p i c k a p a r t t h a t ' s n e w >(##) >(##) >(##) >(##) Good song on the more light hearted level, about trying to attempt on doing things in a different way that'll be unorthodoxed, like in some certain method that is quite perverse.
5 . j u s t l o o k i n g >(##) >(##) >(##) >(##) >(##) Anthem for all the losers out there, and whose wallets are gapingly broke. Similarly like the third track, this is yet another heartwrenching moving lazy ballad, that's kind of sad and sweet at the same time. One of my faves in the album. Like ,just a-lookin' at your uh-huh babe. Ya can look but ya caint tuuch.
6 . h a l f o f t h e l i e s y o u t e l l a i n t t r u e >(##) >(##) >(# sort of like a play of words, a fine song that muses which dont come around to drag as it may seem.
7 . i w o u l d n ' t b e l i e v e y o u r r a d i o >(##) >(##) >(##) kinda like in these times ever since the overkill that took place when alternative music became no longer as the music for the outcast, but have rather become successful to hit the popular charts in the 90's, which develops to those wannabe-rock boy bands and ultimately the death of the music industry caused by pop stars like Brutney Spears and the advent of latino f*ck, hell! there ain’t nothing good anymore to hear on the radio these days. In this case, its quite amusing to listen to EVERCLEAR's "A M Radio" which you could easily relate to if you were a fun loving kid back in the seventies. Good songs may still come about to peep through time and time again minimally with certain albums by certain artists. Anyway its always been the case that within every generation there’s a lurking demon that’s always being popularly consumed by the masses; they only change in form, although they always stay just the same.
8 . t - s h i r t s a n t a n >(##) >(##) Good enough song, evidently embellishes the band's very own distinct sound - as every band and artist does to their own substance.
9 . i s y e s t e r d a y t o m o r r o w t o d a y >(##) >(##) >(# The album sleeve includes anecdotes for each of the songs from the bands lead front man Kelly being the lyricist to the songs. This one comes to resemble the sixth track.
10 . a l i t t l e l o n g e r >(##) >(##) >(##) Thematically going consistent in the entirety of the album's spirit. All in the name of bumming/hanging around this is, pretty good.
11 . s h e t a k e s h e r c l o t h e s o f f >(##) >(##) >(##) >(# A treatise take on low minded women who'd like to take on a ride for fame and fortune by taking their clothes off, that's well deserved to pin down a knuckle about; it also signifies a certain consciencial awareness for Kelly Jones' lyrical ingenuity. The bible have the knack to picture such women as something who has been decreased to a loaf of bread, that ultimately creates the social moralities implication associated with those labels concerning such scenarios.
12 . p l a s t i c c a l i f o r n i a >(##) >(##) >(##) reminds me of that stupid song "California Here We Come" that's being forced for a chart hit status perhaps by the desperation of the masses to find a good alternative rock tune from the past few years. However this is a better tune, which lay out the matter to digress on the subject of americana sh*t, and the like - the crud of hollywood politics and the social vanity associated with the phoniness that could be generated out of it all.
13 . i s t o p p e d t o f i l l m y c a r o f f >(##) >(##) >(# This song conjures to picture an MTV running on your head with the story it implicates, about on a certain day while stopping for a fill up of the car's tank, a greasy man stepped in seated at the back of the car who had a gun in his hand. Features GOYADRESS’ Astrid Williamson on backup vocals.
Mainly, the band dwells on their own distinct quality as a band that is identifiable from others due to Kelly Jones' vocal which sounded like a heated cat call that's shot with anaesthetic and is bubbling in its mouth as he sings; but don’t get me wrong to think that its not okey - actually its quite alright and not offensive and it gives a good distinctly identifiable identity to the band which is significant to their own right. STEREOPHONICS is one of those last few bands that are really credible in what they're doing. Never heard their follow up to this one as yet; I have first encountered the band with their song "Local Boy On A Photograph". On a knack to rate and rank this band in their overall excellence - i'd give em 3 1/2 of my rotten pineapples out of five: >(##) >(##) >(##) >(# ~ pretty good.
make a noise for a bit". The former, as heard on "Hurry Up And Wait", start off by making you feel like curling up into a little ball and wallowing, but too much re...
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