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Artist: Jump Rope Girls
Label: Crystal Clear Sound Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 709652001426 EAN: 0709652001426 ASIN: B00000JHCP Release Date: 1999-06-15 |
Eight Track Demos
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Great album from a little known band.......2004-07-01
If your looking for a unique album, well you've found one.
Wow, it's on amazon??!!.......2002-12-07
Imagine my shock when my friend's old band's cd turned out to be one of my all time favorites. This entire album is amazing, from start to finish, with not a single "filler" track. In fact, I'm not even sure I can pick a favorite.
'Forgetting How' opens the album. Or rather, it blows the doors off. Next comes 'Slingshot,' during which I'm never sure if I want to sing, dance, cry, or break something. 'Looking For Mothers' is a bit of a somber tune, aptly titled as Casey's voice does indeed at times sound like "lost kids in KMart stores", and then turns to a haunting wail. 'Like Pink' takes the album to a different level, someplace dark, and hot, and wet, and sweaty, and dangerous. A place you aren't sure you should have gone to, but you don't want to leave. 'Jets & Magic' is next, tenacious and beautiful, like a confession.
'Through the IV' brings you back down into the basement. It paints retrospective walls lined with junkies, floors strewn with needles and cigarette butts and bits of broken lives. 'Layaway,' one of my personal favorites, tells a story we've all lived in some form or another, and reminds us of how we got through it. 'Silvergirl' does the same, but it breaks your heart a little more. 'Alpha Clearance' begins an instrumental ascent that continues in 'Protection,' with its liquid, rippling waves of sound. Then into the Slingshot Remix, which is just beautiful. And finishing it out is 28°, 6 minutes of heavy, dark, driving sound.
In short, this album tells a story, and each track is a new chapter. Easily one of the most evocative collections of songs I've ever heard.
Music Album:
Music CD
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