The Things We Make

The Things We Make Artist: Six by Seven
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 606949027025
EAN: 0606949027025
ASIN: B00000DCZN


Release Date: 1998-10-06

The Things We Make


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Tracks:

  1. A Beautiful Shape
  2. European Me
  3. Candlelight
  4. For You
  5. Spy Song
  6. Something Wild
  7. Brilliantly Cute
  8. Oh! Dear
  9. 88-92-96
  10. Comedown

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars A good start to their career.......2004-04-14

Six By Seven are one of the best indie bands in the UK, and command a strong following despite a lack of mainstream success. Their debut has longer and more epic songs than the two albums which have followed since, with very 90s, slightly underproduced production, and a wall of sound. A bit like Stone Roses meets My Bloody Valentine perhaps. 'Candlelight' has a baggy groove and a catchy tune, 'European Me' is a haunting, slightly gothic number and 'Oh! Dear' is a building, swirling symphony of noise. In between there are some less successful efforts: the slightly one-dimensional 'Something Wild' and 'Brilliantly Cute', the latter verging into punk-influenced territory without the confidence of later efforts like the explosive 'Speed Is In/Speed Is Out' off their 3rd album. '88-92-96' is a little directionless.

Its actually less heavy than some of the stuff that followed: third album 'The Way I Feel Today' is more varied and has more focus and clarity in the sound. The last 5 songs are noticably less good than the first 5, with the exception of 'Oh! Dear'. The first 5 have more memorable guitar shapes and tunes. Overall, though, this is a good album worth owning, if not as great as later efforts.

4 out of 5 stars speechless.......2000-07-29

check it out before listening to "the close u get" in which only a few tracks are worth-listening. this cool debut IS what six-by-seven deserves to be liked,not the latest one. experinece the noise in "something wild",feel the mechacholy in "88-92-96",taste the sweetness in " a beautiful shape".all u should do is stick to this debut & forget the latest one.

4 out of 5 stars Divide and multiply.......2000-03-31

Any band who can carry a singer with as bad a voice as Chris Olley have to be pretty impressive - that Six By Seven manage not only to do this, but even make his blocked-nose delivery surprisingly emotional have some kind of rare talent. Not that it shows all the time - the first five songs are good, and Brilliantly Cute is a cathartic masterpiece of guitar abuse, but towards the end of the album there is a distinct lack of innovation and enthusiasm. In European Me and Spy Song they demonstrate that they can take a song and build it up to great effect; in Something Wild they need only four minutes to prove they can be a poor pub-rock band. Funny that the grand gestures should be the ones that come off well, while the short stuff lets them down badly.

4 out of 5 stars powerful.......1999-07-13

a real grower. a lot of controlled power and very satisfying at a high volume - a band with a future

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Always in My Dreams ~ Wendy & Lisa
  2. Puppet on a String ~ Sandie Shaw
  3. Lonely Planet Boy ~ Jobriath
  4. Here Comes the Trick/Live Out of the Pulpit ~ Pleasure Club
  5. The Last Fourfathers ~ The Prisoners
  6. Brothers in Arms ~ Dire Straits
  7. Brain Salad Surgery ~ Lake & Palmer Emerson
  8. The Sextet Hellblinki ~ Sextet Hellblinki
  9. They Go to the Woods ~ Herman Dune
  10. The Art of Clear Thinking ~ Propeller

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

The Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions ~ Tal Farlow

Jelly's Last Jam ~ Silver Leaf Jazz Band

Windward Passages ~ Dave Burrell & David Murray

After Hours ~ Lee Konitz

Self-Contained ~ University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble

Magic Line ~ Scott Colley

Nine Sounds Nice Noise ~ Various Artists

Maigret ~ Nicola Piovani

Australie: Toute Les Musiques De Monde ~ Various Artists

Best-Loved Songs of Sweden ~ Sjoberg, Soderman