From The Screen To Your Stereo Vol.1 - New Found Glory

...New Found Glory's second EP, From The Screen To Your Stereo, is a collection of covers of the theme songs from definitive 80s/90s films comprising of: 1. That Thing You Do 2. Never Ending Story 3. I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (from Armageddon) 4. The Goonies 'r' Good Enough 5. The Glory of Love (from Karate Kid 2) 6. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (from Robin Hood) 7. My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic) My main problem with Floridian fivesome ...
...an eclectic mix of songs, from the timeless Bryan Adams ballad, 'Everything I Do', to the theme from the seminal children's flick, Never Ending Story, they somehow manage to make these vastly different songs sound very similar by sticking to a theme of electric guitars and lots of noise . If one of these New Found Glory covers was played on the radio, even the most fervent music buff would probably not recognise the original song. For what New Found ...

marky2k 17.08.2006 · Read full review
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...some of their favorite songs from movie and try to put their own spin on things. Any band can do covers that sound like the orginal, but to make it your own is a different story. New Found Glory do this wonderfully, they turn a bunch of soppy ballads in to pop punk tunes that you'll have stuck in your head for days. The sound is rather unpolished, the gurtairs sound dirty and the vocals could do with a little bit of work. You just know this band ...
...Thing", "That Thing You Do" from the film with the same name and "The Glory Of Love" from The Karate Kid Part II. All of which do the orginals justice. This is a must for all NFG and pop punk fans alike. Get this before From The Screen To Your Stereo Part 2 comes out. And you might as well beacuse you can grab it for less then a fiver! ...

martinfathers 12.09.2007 · Read full review
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