Debutante

Artist: Nash Kato
Label: Will Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 780163366822
EAN: 0780163366822
ASIN: B00002EPLD

Release Date: 2000-04-18

Debutante

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Tracks:

Zooey Suicide
Queen of the Gangsters
Octoroon
Cradle Robbers
Blow
Debutante
Dirty Work
Rani
Los Angelena
Black Satin Jacket
Pillow Talk
Born in the Eighties
Blue Wallpaper

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Exit the Dragon
Americruiser/Jesus Urge Superstar
The Supersonic Storybook
Saturation
Stull EP

Customer Reviews:

Kato rides into rock glory (again).......2004-06-20

An album rich in good songs and peerless execution, both in technique and style. Nash's presence is so large and his music so gloriously rocknroll, I cannot understand why he is not a bigger star, and that extends moreso to the great Urge Overkill. But stardom is not the point. The point is, the music-buying masses didnt get Urge, they were ahead of their time and they remain one of the last great rock bands.
This album is a slick production that encompasses a wide range of rock styles, all performed beautifully by Kato with virtuoso rock guitars, savvy use of keyboards and his ongoing love affair with female backing vocals featuring prominently throughout.
Debutante, the song, is so goddamned groovy it reminds me somehow of the Stones, I think it's the bass. Queen of the Gangstas is a masterpiece, just a very cool tune, with a great set of dynamics played with that kind of laid back cool and then machine gun blast reminiscent of the Urge sound. Zooey Suicide is the kind of number that should be an instant FM Rock hit but that's far too logical for today's market. Octaroon is uniquely dreamy and funky, with superior vocals and guitars playing around with an exotic subject. Black Satin Jacket shows Nash's vulnerability and the results are touching, as is the Steely Dan cover Dirty Work, a faithful rendition and really pretty stirring.
Born in the Eighties is super-cool, and Blue Wallpaper rounds it off nicely, an obscure and subtle rock dirge, coming across like a cousin of (What is) Artane off UO's Supersonic Storybook.
Debutante should have been rated among the best releases of the year 2000. Beautiful production throughout, this is a pleasure to listen to and one that grows on you.

much better than I first thought.......2001-06-21

yeah, for some reason, the first two spins didn't do much for me, but then I gave it another chance and it started to kick in. Maybe there's one extra ballad, but really this picks up pretty much where Urge Overkill left off, and in my book that means it's a Must-Have. Nash rocks harder here than I realized at first... what can I say? I was spaced.

Music Dude from AZ.......2000-11-07

If your an Urge Overkill fan like myself you WILL be disapointed. Unless of course your one of those people who like easy listening duets with corny sounding vocal tempos.

There are only 3 maybe 4 tracks out of 13 that are worth listening to. The Rest of it is way to soft and strange sounding. Normally Nash's soft stuff is great, but this stuff is like easy listening music set to the sound track of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Seriously. Not what I expecting from Nash. I had been anticipating this CD for some time and was totally disapointed.

Get rid of the duets, get back on the booze, call up King and tell him you need a swift kick. Then go and re-listen to All your Urge Stuff. That's what we want to here! Forget evolving! Leave that to shine-head o'conner and Cher!

What's this generation comming to?

Let the music stand by itself........2000-08-07

I can honestly say that I own all that Nash Kato has done (yes, I have the Urge Overkill Album "I, Strange" on Ruthless and his one off thing with Steve Albini on the "Tellus All Guitars" comp.) I can honestly say that this is exactally what another Urge Overkill album would have sounded like. The hooks are there and so are the great sounding guitars. I don't think that Nash will get a fair shake for this album because people have preconcieved notion about him, because for some reason they were left with a bad taste in their mouth after "Exit the Dragon". But although that album wasn't as good as "Saturation", it still had merit. No one bothered to give it a chance, even the label left them out in the wind. "Debutante" is a very strong effort and deserves consideration on it's own. Song's like "Queen of the Gangsters", "Octoroon", "Born in the Eighties", "Cradle Robbers", and "Zooey Suicide" are all songs that should be played on radio or atleast M2. Why everyone want Nash to fail I haven't figured out yet, but one of these days he will rise again and shove it in the faces who have kicked him when he was down, and I think that "Debutante" may be the one that could do it if listen to with no preconcieved notion about who it is or how it should sound. I just have one more question, what the hell is a Octoroon?

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