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Artist: For Squirrels
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074646715024
EAN: 0074646715024
ASIN: B000002B5S

Release Date: 1995-10-03

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Tracks:

8:02 PM
Orangeworker
Superstar
Mighty K.C.
Under Smithville
Long Live The King
The Immortal Dog And Pony Show
Stark Pretty
Disenchanted
Eskimo Sandune

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Customer Reviews:

For Squrrels - Example - Purchased in 1996.......2006-08-30

I bought this CD in 1996 - right when the song Mighty K.C. was prevalent on the local/college radio. It is still consistently one of the 5 or 6 CDs I keep in my car.

Tragic story of the band... but makes their music frozen in time. Definite recommendation for those who liked grunge, but also liked 'Live', Counting Crows, REM.

Searching For Squirrels.......2005-12-10

It is a classic from first note to last. An unbelievable record that when you stop to think it was their first full length recording, amazes even more. They would have been huge had tragedy not struck. They had it all - great songwriting, great hooks, great melodies, great layering of sounds and a great stage presence. I was lucky enough to see them after the accident when they tried to soldier on as a trio. Despite the near empty room, it remains one of the concert highlights of my life. There aren't too many albums that will take you on an emotional ride like this one. You simply are not a music fan if you don't have it.

An album well worth rescuing from obscurity.......2005-10-21

If life were fair, For Squirrels would be one of the most well-known bands in American music, they would have recorded several albums, and half the songs on this album would be radio classics.
But....
Instead, this is the sole album For Squirrels ever recorded, back before a tragic accident took place that cut this band's sure path to fame and success short forever.
The band was en route to Florida from New York, when their van blew a tire. The van rolled over, and the band's manager, and vocalist Jack Vigliatura, and bassist Bill White were all killed. Other members of the band were injured as well, and this album was released shortly afterward.
The band also has an e.p., and the surviving members later recorded an album under the name Subrosa, but "Example" remains the best of For Squirrels' work, and will always remain a great album, despite its tragic background.
"8:02 PM" was a college radio staple many years ago and just rocks with a happy rhythmic squall unlike any I've ever heard elsewhere. The guitar is almost indescribable--mirror-clear guitar notes get buried beneath a rush of distortion beneath an onslaught of drums beneath stop/start vocals and alternating speeds. It rocks. "Orangeworker" is a happy little quirky song with a lovely piano line. "Under Smithville" is one of the greatest songs ever--escalating, quirky, exciting, exciting in its progression, and lyrically stellar.
The songs range from quiet and clear and sharp to walls of sounds and distortion. Every song is good, many songs are great, and the album is a must-have for any discerning music fan, especially for any fan of the best of the 1990s.
This a great album, well worth saving from obscurity, well worth listening to forever. Buy it now. Now!

an "example" of pure guitar pop perfection.......2005-07-27

For Squirrels is one of those rare records that only comes along once and can't be repeated, and of course, it is truly tragic to the circumstances as to why this particular feat can't be repeated, or followed-up for that matter. The fact that this album did achieve modest success after it came out was good, but it was sad that some of the people who created it did not live to see that success.
An amalgam of chiming melodies, loud guitars, thrsashy rhythms and a variety of vocal styles co-exist here perfectly. With any other bands, the stylistic differences track-to-track would present a problem, but these guys had the talent to pull it off. The soft verse/loud chorus dynamics are present on many of the songs, as it was on pretty much any rock album released post-"Nevermind," but these guys stood out from most of the post-grunge bands that flooded the market at the time with their songwriting talent. Jack Vigilatura's lyrics and voice are timeless, and though some might say that his references to death and dying in several of the songs are pretty darned eerie, what band, circa 1995 wasn't making at least some sort of reference to death in their lyrics? There are some true gems on "Example" that would have been huge hits in an ideal world. The jangly "Under Smithville" was the track that reeled me into this record. Others, like the Kurt Cobain alluding "Mighty K.C." and "Stark Pretty" not only contain instantly memorable melodies and choruses, but musical twists and turns that imply a band who had been playing together for decades, and to my understanding, these guys had only been together for a few years prior to making this album.
Don't take my word for it, just check out the music and let these guys live on through your stereo.

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