American Alternative music reviews

Great song with Great lyrics! My favorite song by Jimmy Eat World.

The first time that I listened to JimmyEatWorld immediately I surprised. It is a great band, one of best bands EMO of the scene. "Bleed American" is a surprising song, very sweet song and at the same time with a Heavy Rock Riff. "The Authoruty Song" is a Californian song style, and a precious ballad like "Hear you Me". Very Well By JEW and the idiot of Fuenchy that I invite myself to listen to the disc its house. Then, Buy it in amazon.com . They are not going away to regret. And The Piratery Of the Disc and the stupid of Heriberto and Chibi and Gazu and, off course, THe EMo Of Morgado Loves this Disc!

i met "sir" ielpi a couple years back when he was in "heal" and was excited to listen to the music of his younger self...i'm not so sure if his words have changed as much as his tune...i thoroughly enjoyed it..still enjoying...you should to! they've got alot to say and hopefully more to play....

Finally! Finally the first False Prophets album has been rereleased on CD! (plus a bunch of other goodies too I see!)I've been waiting for YEARS to get my hands on this. This album was the soundtrack to my teenage life. I wore out my vinyl copy years ago. I am so happy! I'm ordering this right now.

This is essential music. This set has everything they have recorded, and as any fan knows, everything they have recorded is worth having. Kramer is a master arranger, producing tunes that seem to burrow into your mind and make it a better place somehow. There is nothing like this band. Most of this stuff is almost impossible to find anymore in any other form. BUY IT NOW.

all the long lost pieces of music, and some nice packaging too, all here for the savvy consumer. this is what god was thinking about when he gave us the ability to hear. Ann and Kramer have somehow discovered the master's divine plan, and put it to music, so don't you think you should go out and buy the box set so you too can experience it?

We loved Moving Targets in Germany then.
They weren't all that well known otherwise.
But they played most of their songs from Brave Noise & Burning in Water at our club then, and they were fantastic dance tunes.

I first discovered Moving Targets back in the mid-80's afer Burning In Water came out. It is no understatement to say that this is one of the best bands of the 80's. And this music holds up SO well, even after almost 20 years. I still get goose-bumps when I turn this up. How many other bands from any genre or time can do that! Although Burning In Water is their best work, Brave Noise is still a great album.

Listen to 'Less Then Gravity' off Burning in Water and decide for yourself....

"Buzz Factory" was the Screaming Trees' final recording for SST, but not their last stand as independent recording artists. They would follow up by spending a little quality time with Sub Pop prior to the release of their major label debut, "Uncle Anesthesia," two years later. Produced by the Trees and Jack Endino, "Buzz Factory" lives up to its title with buzz aplenty thanks to Gary Lee Conner's muscular guitar playing. The album is a solid send-off, which should come as little surprise--history will remember the Trees as one of the Northwest's most consistent bands. If they never had a hit on par with "Nevermind," nor did they ever release any lackluster (or uncharacteristic) recordings in a career spanning over 15 years. Opening track "Where the Twain Shall Meet" and "Black Sun Morning" are two of the strongest selections. The latter doesn't just have a Soundgarden-style title--a l� "Black Hole Sun"--but even sounds a little like that hard rockin' Seattle quartet (who were also aligned with SST at the time), which is to say: more anthemic than usual. A sample from an interview briefing is slipped between "Yard Trip #7" and "Flower Web" ("The question will be what kind of trees you are; the reply will be 'Screaming Trees'").

With Invisible Lantern and Uncle Anesthesia, Buzz Factory makes up the trilogy of masterpieces in which the Screaming Trees create the perfect combination between garage punk, hard rock and psychedelia. And mark the word create, because this is music of undeniable originality, despite its well known roots. Never in history has a band channeled sounds of such intoxicating and ragged beauty; mesmerizing melodies and stories from other dimensions are buried under layers of fuzzed guitars, intricate fills and, of course, Mark Lanegan's glorious, post-apocalyptic drawl. Don't worry about the sometimes inadequate production. These songs will throw themselves at your throat and never let go, while releasing a subtle, reality altering poison into your unsuspecting mind.

Mark Lanegan is the Lion King of rock. Gary Lee Conner is the lost link between Ed Kuepper and Jimmy Page. Mark Pickerel is the reincarnation of the thunder god. Van Conner has the bottle of superglue. A!nd Buzz Factory is a distorted marvel.

American Music Club is the only band whose music has actually brought me to tears. No lie. This album is not DEPRESSING. When I think of depressing music, I think of Leonard Cohen, and this is in no way a listening experience that makes you want to honestly die(that comment is in no way directed as an insult to Mr. Cohen, who I believe is in the top 5 lyricists of all time). California is one of the saddest albums you are bound to hear, with songs such as Blue and Grey Shirt, Jenny, Western Sky, and Last Harbor(which has my vote as the most heartbreaking song I have ever heard). Mark Eitzel is the "spokesman for every tired thing" in my eyes, and his word was never as direct as it is here. The only problem with AMC is that they have 3 albums (this one, Everclear, and Mercury) that are perfect, and it is impossible, at least for me, to say which is best. It's worth searching for.

I can't really add any more to the previous review - it sums up this beautiful album perfectly.I bought the vinyl when it first came out , played it to death then was lucky enough to pick up a CD in a 2nd hand shop - i was a happy guy that day.Anyhoo , this is a lost classic that is crying out for a reissue , y'know with all that remastered stuff and extra tracks and sleevenotes etc.I live for the day when this timeless treasure gets it's due,like the Uncle Tupelo albums did.
Strikes me that this would be perfect for those lovely,discerning chaps at Rhino Records.Id put money on it being a fave at their HQ.
One of my all -time classic LP's.....
Love from Sunny (!)Scotland

This was the pinnacle of AMC's career, and perhaps Mark Eitzel's writing. Each great band has an album where they are on top form. Everything comes together.

Eitzel's songs can be rambling and abstract, self consciously arty and sometimes gruelling, but on this album each song is concise, melodious and framed by a fluid, shimmering but punchy production.

Beauty and subtlety abounds in the music, with Vudi's guitar reigned in from the noisy slabs of Engine. Here, on Blue and Grey shirt and Western Sky we have atmospheric and tuneful fills with the accent on 'less is more'. In reviews of the time, much was made of the use of pedal steel, but this was an inspired choice. How many alt-country bands now use pedal steel as a tool of atmosphere these days?

Great bands make albums that have no filler. California is a perfect cycle of love and melancholy. Side one (firefly thru Blue and Grey Shirt) especially is made up of five songs that simply could not be improved. The 7 or 8 seconds silence in the middle of laughingstock only serves to provide a perfect centre to this sequence. After the drunken rant of Bad Liquor, a slight optimism takes over, just to help the fatally broken-hearted atiny bit.

Eitzel's voice is rich in character. Pathetic, intimate, passionate, despairing, drunk, hopeful and resigned. He never again managed to match the form and songs to the texture of his singing.

California was too subtle to be a massive hit, but remains an undiscovered gem.

This is one of the most original sounding bands to appear in the last 5 years. They've got punk rock energy, gothic gloom, Dali-esque surrealism, a truly strange sense of humor and performance art terror tactics. This band is like that crackhead highschool clown who would do anything to get a rise out of someone. But what is it? I consider it to be Deathrock. Plain and simple. It's post punk, it's dark and spooky, it's rock and it's deathy. As for what they sound like, this is where it gets difficult to explain. They've got a sense of abandon that reminds me of The Birthday Party, an "arty" quality that brings Bauhaus to mind and a dream-like surreal edge that reminds me of Alien Sex Fiend. However, they don't sound anything at all like those bands. The closest I can come to a comparison would be early Positive Punk bands like UK Decay and Sex Gang Children mixed with early TSOL and sideshow carnival music from hell. The coolest thing about them is their use of a Farsifa (I think?) organ cranking out some totally eerie melodies. Sort of like the soundtrack to a psycho clown chasing you through an old Gothic mansion full of cobwebs.

I don't think I will live to see the day when genres mix this well. The phantom limbs are a blend of goth rock and american hardcore born again. Dissonance is the best way i can describe this band. Displacement is a phenominal beggining for a phenominal band. This has to be the most innovative band that has came out in a long time. Buy their cds and see them live!!! You will not be dissapointed

At the heart of this album's aesthetic is its juxtaposition of blinding guitar noise wrought of pure distortion and lee's beautifully poetic spoken word. The guitarwork is gut wrenching, painfully distorted, and at times becomes complete audio violence in which harmony and melody, are not ignored but destroyed. This is anti-music, with no pretense of being nice. It is harsh, abrasive, it rarely approaches conventional standards. The spoken word on the other hand is just the opposite. Beautifully crafted and poetic, its a touching reminder of something serene in this maelstrom of guitar carnage. In a word, this album is brilliant, though not for the feint of heart.

Brilliant, brilliant sound + spoken word album by Lee. Powerful, frail, beautiful and ugly all at one time. The outcome is indescribable. END

this is a great cd to listen to while travelling across the country. some good guitar work and excellent lyrics, especially man in your band.

I love Jupiter Coyote! Not many people know of them cause they are kinda a local band, but their music is somewhat like Widespread Panic. All of their songs that I have heard have been great!

This band defies you to sit on the fence. You can't! Either you hate this band and their sludgy noisy music and their growling offtune frontman (97% of earth's population) or you think they are one of the most demonically expressive bands of the past quarter century (the remaining 3% OOHH! the 3% Nation of Noiselam!). Strange lyrics, hateful stuff. Good for the whole family? NO. But it's the family that I've always stood against... Yes it's the family that deserves to be tossed into the garbage bin of civilization.

Killdozer reminds you of youth and power and and lust anger and venom. All the things that matter most in life.

If you like Killdozer, one of the better bands of the last fifteen years, you will really like this album. If you like really heavy music with pounding drums and mean guitars and an evil man singing evil songs at you, then you will love God Hears The Pleas Of The Innocent.

Porky's Dad and Spork are stuck in my head this week, but the whole album is thirty six of the best minutes to ever come out of Wisconson. No offense to Pachinko or Packer's fans.

This was a great album. As good of a follow up to "War on Art" as you could expect. All songs are strong and worth listening to. 2 of my favorites were "Spork" & "Paul doesnt understand Jazz" which is kind of a goof of a song, but I laughed anyway. They were alot of fun to see play live, but have since disbanded. Also check out their albums "10 Point Buck" and "For Ladies Only" which is all cover songs, my favorite was "I can tell you've never been this far before". Everyone should hear this band at some point.