Everyone

Everyone Artist: Kory & The Fireflies
Label: Stable Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 789577103627
EAN: 0789577103627
ASIN: B0000645AM


Release Date: 2002-04-09

Everyone


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Tracks:

  1. Pop Fly
  2. Good Thing
  3. Everyone
  4. Love Comes Down
  5. That's the One
  6. Hallowed Ground
  7. Lost & Found
  8. What Your Heart Needs
  9. I Stand In My Way
  10. Days Go By
  11. For What It's Worth

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Andy Cusack.......2003-07-06

Please don't take Andy's review seriously. I'm not sure who Cody is, but anybody who knows the characters from Step by Step is not somebody that I would ever take advice from regarding taste.

I know several of the band members personally, and they're just as nice as their music is great. This is a must have CD!

1 out of 5 stars Dude..........2003-02-23

I will refer to the collective of Van Sickle and his backing band, the Fireflies, as "Kory the Dude." I'm not talking Jeffrey Lebowski "Dude"-this is more like Cody from "Step by Step" "Dude."

During its latest release, "Everyone," Kory the Dude is as convincing as a Bon Jovi cover band playing Gin Blossoms throwaways. In fact, that's exactly what they sound like! The band tries to create a formula consisting of every gimmick from every arena rock band that ever existed. It comes off as a bad kindergarten cut-and-paste project...or maybe it is more like drunken assemblages of refrigerator magnetic poetry without the benefit of its "vast" vocabulary.

For example, the chorus for the opening track, "Pop Fly," sounds like it was just tacked on to a bad verse. There are no hooks that lead into it-it's just there.

The only thing going for Kory the Dude is that it does an okay job of writing catchy choruses. Too bad they are all just thrown into the song sans a context. Picture the band sitting around a table listening to Van Sickle's latest offerings and exclaiming, "Dude, good one! Dude." I have a feeling this is not a far stretch from the manner in which the tunes were actually created.

But before you think I am out to get this band because is led by a guy who is (or was) a jeans model, please reconsider. I love the Strokes. They play good songs. Such is not the case with Kory the Dude.

At times, Kory the Dude tries to create its own style by incorporating bad country licks, watered down harmonica, and bongos, but the effort is a blind search. Style is something developed over time-it isn't something you can just do. Is it possible Kory the Dude didn't have the time to develop style because its leader was busy displaying the latest threads? I hope the excuse is that simple...for the band's sake.

The title track is an attempt at capturing the classic singer-songwriter story song. The problem is that the characters within this little ditty are no deeper than the paper on which the awful lyrics are printed, and the chorus is as thought-provoking as a seventh grader's philosophical poetry. "What if everyone under the sun loved everyone under the sun?" Dude. Deep.

Kory the Dude is trying to be The Boss, but Mr. Van Sickle forgets that he needs to make a "Born to Run" instead of a "To the Extreme."

5 out of 5 stars These guys are Phenomenal.......2002-09-06

Having seen these guys in concert many times gives one a great deal of insight into the power behind their music. This is the type of music that makes you dance till you drop. YOU REALLY MUST HAVE THIS ONE IN YOUR COLLECTION, Absoluterly the best.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing display of vocals and guitar.......2002-05-20

Kory and the Fireflies is a great mix of vocal and guitars with a power pop feel. The extra percussion and well-placed saxophone bursts add unique sounds and excitement to the mix. The bass, especially on Good Thing (track 2), exerts a solid low end; thus, ensuring it is a CD to which you can groove. The speed is slightly slower than their live performances, which are amazing. Kory and the Fireflies is one of the best live bands in the nation, yet can harness that live feel in a studio recorded CD, which is a rarity amongst good live bands. If you get an opportunity, see these guys live! This is a must have to any fine rock music connoisseurs collection.

5 out of 5 stars A must get!.......2002-05-13

Kory and the Fireflies best album to date. The long wait was worth it. Maybe with this one TPTB will realize what they've been missing...

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