Cryptic Valentine

Artist: The Maggies
Label: Chickenman
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 786851346527
EAN: 0786851346527
ASIN: B00004T3LH

Release Date: 2000-04-11

Related Categories:

General

| Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock

| Pop | Styles | Music

General

| Rock | Styles | Music

Power Pop

| Rock | Styles | Music

General

| Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General

| Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Tracks:

Nature's Afternoon
Long Dark See You
Sara
Solid Yellow Zero
Dying in My Sleep
Back in Time
B.M.G.
Green
We're Three
Sleep, New Toy
Dead Jones

Customer Reviews:

yum. maggies...........2000-12-13

the maggies are a lovely band who write and play some lovely music. they should be on tv! i love them.

Please support the Maggies.......2000-06-12

This is a great pop band from my town, and they are wonderful people who make great music. I would encourage any guitar pop fan to check them out.

Power POP is back!.......2000-05-20

If you're looking for a great CD to purchase, look no futher! This CD is new and refreshing from begining to end. Nothing too complicated here, just great music. I could honestly tell you that I do not have a favorite track on the CD because they all are great. Give me The Posies straight up with a twist of R.E.M., great tunes with great harmonies. Also, a great CD to pick up is "Homesick" by this same great band. I am fortunate to live in the same area as these guys because they are great live as well. What more do you need to hear? Buy the cd's and check them out!

maggies prove that pop will eat everything else too.......2000-05-18

I can't stop humming these songs all day and night. This album is more catching than Asian flu, and a lot more enjoyable. Seriously, buy both albums. After you've heard Cryptic Valentine you'll be starving for more of The Maggies' infectious tunes. Don't be caught short!

"A well-mixed beverage of tunes".......2000-05-17

Listening to Cryptic Valentine, I sometimes feel like I'mexperiencing The Maggies for the first time (which is, fortunately,not the case). From the opening triple-threat of Nature's Afternoon, Long Dark See You and Sarah J. (which recalls, for me at least, Gun/Star/Wrong combo from the band's cassette-only and kinda old release Experimental Cinema), this album is a beautiful and entrancing sonic experience that fulfills the promise of the stellar album Homesick, building upon its angular-pop and adding some real dimension to the music. If you can recover from the first three songs (or stop dancing frenetically long enough to listen), old favorite Solid Yellow Zero makes a sparkling appearance (in its fifth (?) and greatest recorded form. But to pick out a single song or singule musician's contribution would be futile. While the songs (by Philip Price, vocals/guitars/keys/Mellotron) are king, the band - (Price, bassist Max Germer, vocalist/keyboardist Adrain O'Carolan and drummer Stuart Wright - meshes beautifully as one to deliver them. If the term "pop band" (a tag often applied to the Maggies) scares you, know this: this is music we can all enjoy, a bright and fresh tasting, well-mixed beverage that recalls the best of rock, country, psycedelia AND power-pop. If that isn't enough, the "chaser" of Dead Jones promises to kick your( ) into next week. It's a weird song, but indescribable and beautiful. You just have to hear it. Buy this album and do yourself a HUGE favor END

Music CD:

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Para Enamorados ~ La Mafia

A Paso Firme ~ Azabache

Heart of a Gypsy ~ Govi

Come and Get To Know Me

Autumn in New York ~ Sonny Stitt

The Many Moods of Bill Doggett ~ Bill Doggett

Jala Jala Y Boogaloo V.1 ~ Ricardo Ray

Mexican Divas ~ Various Artists

El Caballo Blanco ~ Mariachi Zapopan

Tequila Band ~ Tequila Band