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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Nice Boys |
| Date | Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:02:12 -0600 |
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There are a lot of glam rock trappings on the record -- the opening cut
nicks the riff from Sweet's "Wig Wam Bam", for example. There's also some
rhythms reminiscent of T. Rex and Gary Glitter. This is a fun record, but I
just don't think the songwriting quite reaches peak level. A couple killer
songs would make a big difference. Moreover, Terry Six is a really limited
vocalist.
Enjoyable, but not the best power pop album since whatever you think the
best power pop album in a while was.
Mike Bennett
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>From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Nice Boys
>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:51:37 -0500
>
>Holy mother of god. Who's heard the Nice Boys album?
>
>Self-titled album, out now on Birdman. It's the new band featuring Terry
>Six, the sole surviving member of the Exploding Hearts, and god bless them,
>but as good as their album was, this is about ten times better. I may even
>go so far as to call this the best pure power pop album released so far
>this millennium, possibly since Cotton Mather's KON-TIKI. There, I said
>it.
>
>Seriously, if you were on Audities circa 1996-97, this is pretty much
>*exactly* what we were all looking for then. Remember all of those
>slightly irritating, navel-gazing threads from back in the day about "Well,
>what *is* power pop exactly?" We don't need to have those anymore.
>Because...here. This is it.
>
>Just go here:
>
>http://www.myspace.com/niceboys
>
>And if you're only going to listen to one, listen to "Johnny Guitar."
>Although while you're there, you should also immediately download the
>non-LP single "You Won't See Me Anymore," which is fantastic.
>
>Although the album art is kind of explicitly mid-'70s, the songs themselves
>sound much more like the UK power poppers from later in the decade,
>specifically the Records, the Motors, the Radio Stars, the Yachts, that
>whole lot. Pretty much none of the punky side of the Exploding Hearts, but
>there's that same kind of freshness: this is definitely a record from 2006.
>
>The only way this won't be near the top of Mike Bennett's poll is if not
>enough people hear this by the end of January. Honestly, it's pretty much
>the canonical Audities record.
>
>S
>
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