Please Believe It

Please Believe It Artist: Party of Helicopters
Label: Velocette
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 789394300926
EAN: 0789394300926
ASIN: B00008OM5Y


Release Date: 2003-04-08

Please Believe It


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Tracks:

  1. The Good Punk
  2. Mic My Mind
  3. Cover Me
  4. Delta '88
  5. The Toucher
  6. Rising Up Is Hard Work (let's just sit here)
  7. Brutal Enigma
  8. Never Ending Cycle
  9. Boston
  10. Science Reasons

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Album Description

From the very beginning in 1995 the party of helicopters have been a fist in the face of the indie/hardcore world. Refusing to be tagged to any specific genre, the party of helicopters have always made it a point to combine their individual and eclectic and varied taste to create a hybrid of metal punk and pop for a sound that is truly original. the party of helicopters are an insanely good rock band - a big tangle of knotted-up guitar riffs, thundering percussion, saw-toothed fuzz bass, and vocal melodies that dart and dive and wander like a hobo. Their music being frustration, aimlessness, disappointment, and raw hope coming out as pure solid riffing and apocalyptic rhythms. It's so invigorating and original that their 2000 release Mt. Forever was named one of Spin's Top 20 records of that year. <P>Please Believe It propels the PoH even further into chaos. The album opener "The Good Punk" starts with Dennis stating "this ain't punk rock enough for my ears" then poceeds to churn through the next six (!!) minutes dissecting the musical ethics of the new American indie rocker. Cerebral! "Cover Me" (track 3) is a traffic stopper - tornado riffs corkscrew ceaselessly, upending the melody line and filling the song with furious momentum propelled even further forward (and laterally) by Corey Race's impossibly "keeps you guessing" drumming. It's like Yngwie Malmstein trying to play along to Big Black, all of heavy metal's guilty pleasures battling Dischord's punk rock puritanism. Even when the PoH tries to play it relatively straight, as they do in the aching pop song "Neverending Cycle" (track 8) the edges are serrated and the tempo is bratty and fitful. The Toucher" (track 5) is an extrememly angular ditty about mustaches with a chorus featuring some wickedly f**ked up fuzz bass by "bass guitarist" Ryan Brannon. <P>If you've got to file this anywhere, file it with tyour SST Records, right between Double Nickels on the Dime and You're Living All Over Me. They are not the sound of yesterday, nor are they a spit-shined nostalgia act or a by-the-book exercise in genre. the PoH are pioneering their own niche. It's called JesusF**kingChrist,TheseGuysRock-Core.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great band, original sound.......2006-04-23

This is one of my favorite bands, but it's easy to see why they're not greatly appreciated. I love the quirky spare lyrics and the music that's all over the place.

2 out of 5 stars Don't "Believe".......2004-08-10

Party of Helicopters underwhelms in "Please Believe It," a jagged punky album that never pulls itself together. Freakily distorted vocals, monotonous musicianship and ordinary lyrics are broken by occasional moments of brilliance, but they're few and far between.

They show some hints of wit in the opener, "Good Punk," a frenetic rant against musical purists that serves as the funniest and most coherent song on the whole album. "Please" then dips down into a stream of rather repetitive rockers, heavy on the roiling bass and the rat-a-tat percussion. "Neverending Cycle" breaks the mold with some pretty enjoyable guitar pop, carrying over into the hallucinogenic "Boston," before ending on the same grinding rock note in "Science Reasons."

Metallic punk-rock with some distorted falsetto vocals -- it sounds good, no? Unfortunately it's not nearly as good as it sounds. Party of Helicopters has some good music buried somewhere in the chaos, but they never quite work their songs up to actually be music.

The stormy basslines and raging riffs are good, forming a whirlwind of sound. But on the second or third listen, you'll notice that the riffs and lines are basically repeating themselves, sometimes descending into disorder for a few seconds before lurching back. And most of the songs sound alike, blending into one big instrumental storm.

And the vocals are so close to being outstanding. Joe Dennis's distorted falsetto sounds eerie against the backdrop of tornado rock. But the lyrics he sings aren't quite so good. "Good Punk" is brilliant songwriting, sneering sardonically "It ain't punk rock enough for my ears/I'm outta here/they got a baby unicorn on the record cover." But the others seem like random stream-of-consciousness. Which would be fine, except it's hard to care about a guy thinking so hard about his mustache.

With raging rock and eerie vocals, Party of Helicopters has some of the components for some great rock in "Please Believe It." All they have to do is take their sound apart and put it back together in a totally new way.

4 out of 5 stars Very origional sounding rock band.......2003-07-23

I read about this band in A&P magazine, and in the Law of Inertia mag, so I decided to try them out. Boy was I glad I did! The best I can describe this album is that it sounds like a straight up riff based rock band with tons of Black Sabbath influences. I hear Black Sabbath all over this record. This isn't your basic boring verse-chorus-verse-chorus song structures. The whold cd is just awesome! The only things I don't like about this album is that 1) sometimes it sounds like the guitars are pushed ahead in the mix above the drums and bass and 2) the singer needs to let loose. Some parts he is just too whispery quiet and passive sounding.

Other than that the record is fantastic!

3 out of 5 stars Sort of underwhelmed.......2003-07-10

After hearing a track on the Magnet sampler, I decided to give these guys a try. I tried to like this but it just came up short.
Never Ending Cycle is a good song in a Pinback do a shoegaze metal type thing. However this album just is too monochromatic to draw me back with any consistency. I'll get back to these guys later, I suppose. Nice effort but that's just about it. Maybe this will go somewhere just not yet. A strong B plus effort.

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. The Rock ~ Frankie Miller
  2. Built for Speed ~ Stray Cats
  3. Hobo With a Grin ~ Steve Harley
  4. The World Needs Convincing of All That It's Missing ~ Five Minute Ride
  5. The Yankee Dollar ~ The Yankee Dollar
  6. The Iguanas ~ The Iguanas
  7. Date with the Smithereens ~ The Smithereens
  8. Leyenda ~ Alquimia
  9. Document #5
  10. Tage Mahal ~ Jon Oliva's Pain

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Head to Head ~ Jonathan Butler

Bye Bye Blackbird ~ John Coltrane

Ornithology ~ Charlie Parker

Tunes for Tommy ~ Andy Fielding & Rick Fay

Chet ~ Chet Baker

Ragtime, Vol. 1: 1897-1919

Just a Hero ~ Boowy

Best of Bollywood ~ Various Artists

Arigato Aniki!/Setonaiminato ~ Nao Guren

La Mia Storia, Vol. 1 ~ Adriano Celentano