Rusty Old Halo, A/Where Did The Money Go - Hoyt Axton

Advantages: The album is fun to listen to, the tracks strong to sing along to.
Disadvantages: All of the bands other albums are a lot better, the tracks all lack passion.

...'New Beginnings Of Old Stories' is the fourth studio album from the UK skate punk band that is 4ft Fingers. The album consists of twelve tracks and if you've ever heard one of the bands albums in the past then you can expect more of the same from 4ft Fingers here. Never has the band's sound developed much and always when 4ft Fingers returns with any new material, you always know what to expect; good solid skate punk music. The album begins with the fairly catchy 'Where Did All The Legends Go?', progresses with the punchy 'Thick As Thieves', never do you feel here though that the band ever really gets properly into its stride. The album is okay, I don't feel that it showcases 4ft Fingers at the band's very best however and always here the energy levels seem to be a little lacking. From start to finish the album is always enjoyable... Read review

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Advantages: Better than the previous album
Disadvantages: Not the greatest way to end a recording career

...In mid-1999, a very sad thing happened. Due to musical differences, the EMI record label decided to drop Terrorvision, one of the best and most fun rock bands of the 1990’s. The reasoning behind it was simple – EMI had lost around £1 million on Terrorvision in the eight years they had been together. After the huge (No 2 in the charts!) success of a song called “Tequila” from the band’s “Shaving Peaches” album (ironic that the band’s biggest single should be from what was their worst album), EMI suddenly got pound signs in their eyes. They decided that if they marketed Terrorvision as a heavy-pop band, rather than as a soft-rock band, they would have more Top 10 singles and would get their money back. The band didn’t like this idea at all. Although “Shaving Peaches” had been more pop friendly that their previous albums, their long... Read review

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Advantages: Sugar sweet singing to gut wrenching screaming, excellent lyrics, top form
Disadvantages: temptation to skip a couple of slower songs

...did not like. LOSING HIS TOUCH appears to be about alienation from God, and perhaps also the concept of organised religion (with corruption and cover ups of child abuse by priests, etc. who can be surprised?). So rather than be told off that how she lives is wrong, she decides that she will do what she wants because she is of the mind to decide what is right, since the preachers themselves have turned the idea of a God into a money making scheme. The eponymous CLEAR HEARTS GREY FLOWERS is acknowledged to be about betrayl. And the fact it's kind of repetitive reflects how people go over things in their minds again and again. The words "I'm not the girl that stopped and stared, I'm not the girl that lied" show a righteous indignation at whatever has been done to her, and the slightly vicious "this is what you want, this is what you get... Read review

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