Menergy

Artist: White Octave
Label: Initial
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 616172004427
EAN: 0616172004427
ASIN: B00005M961

Release Date: 2001-01-01

Menergy

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Tracks:

The Constant Is Zero
Splashed Into Serpents
Animal Chin
La Vista
Wait
The House Is Flatlined
Powerlines
Move In Time
Weight
Menstrumental

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Customer Reviews:

Pedersen kicked ass without cursive before criteria.......2006-04-25

This CD is the essential album of Stephen Pedersen. I whoops his appearance on early cursive releases (burst and bloom I think?)

If you like regular licks used in interesting ways, rich chords, quaint yet anthemic singing and a kick ass bass player, you like Menergy.

Menergy Rocks Out!.......2002-04-02

For the last year or two, I've been diving head first into a giant vat of hiphop lifestyles. Only to emerge with one question, "Where's rock?" No!!! Not the rock you smoke, the rock you hear, the rock you feel, the rock you live. When was the last good rock album anyway? Something not considered "Emo" or "Alternative" or a hundred other things. ROCK remember? Guitars, Bass, Drums? A singer shredding his vocal chords just to shatter the ear drums of an attentive audience. Where did it all go? Into "Menergy" that's where.

Yes this album rocks! And it rocks hard! Prepared to be rocked like a million metaphors associated with the word rock. Rock of Ages! The riffs are well thought out, the style is fearless, and the structure is solid. No Matchbox 20's burnin this brick house down.

Seriously, if you want to remember what it was like to Rock? Then don't sit there like a Rock. Rock on over to your music store and grab this Rock album. And prepare to get ROCKED!!

4 men + Denim=good music.......2001-09-21

To have a lucid discourse about all the aspects of the new White Octave LP, one must get the enevitable comparisons out of the way: Yes, they owa a great debt to 311. The bouncy reggae rhythms, the swinging reggae singing, the whole reggae thing that they do. But the White Octave manage to take it to a whole new level, just like another band that they sound a lot like, Cracker. When I was a freshman in High School, they sang, "the world needs another pop singer like I need a hole in the head."
That hole in the Head is Steven J. Pedersen. ANd David Lowery does need a new hole in the head: consider: we only have one for putting things in, the mouth. Would it not be better to have another hole dedicated to just liquids. And while we are adding hole, why not one for vomit. It can't be san-i-fresh to puke the same place where you eat piping hot burritos.

The new White Octave sound is cleanly produced and bubbling with good ideas for the cause of man. The lyrics are very important to understanding what they are "talking" about, if you get my drift ladies. In the first song, "the Croissant is zero" they sing about how a croissant, a french pastery brough to America by Hans Van Hardee looks like zero and how Steven is going to deliver one to his sweety in her bed room before they elope. Ahhh, these were simpler times, before the Red scare, before we stopped wearing PJ's with the trapdoors in the butt, no now we have to take the pant All the way off. IN-E-FISH-ANT!

Another song that stands out as a standout song is "Movin' Time." I can't remember the words to this song but on this other one. In all when I listen to "Menergy," at night, in the dark, I feel at though the White Octave (Steve, Linc, Biggie, "the Floating Member") are there, petting me, saying, "It'll be ok."

Thank you.

it ain't no "style no. 6312.".......2001-08-22

don't you hate it when a band puts out a wonderful debut album only to follow up with a an album that good, but just doesn't measure up to the first? unfortunately, this is the case with "menergy." many of the songs are quite good and rock in the same fashion that the songs on "style no. 6312" did, however, after a few listens, the songs hat aren't quite as distinctive (especially the slower ones) tend to blur together and get muddy and overshadow the good songs. definitely worth checking out as songs such as "animal chin" and "the constant is zero" are great, but it ain't no "style no. 6312."

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