Nationwide

Nationwide Artist: Rockfour
Label: Rainbow Quartz
Category: Music


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


UPC: 653496006126
EAN: 0653496006126
ASIN: B0001GWBUA


Release Date: 2004-03-09

Nationwide


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Categories | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Neo-Psychedelia Neo-Psychedelia
Categories | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
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Categories | Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

  1. Honey
  2. Nationwide
  3. Next Monroe
  4. Candlelight
  5. To The End
  6. Mad Routine
  7. Have A Good One
  8. You Said
  9. Fuzzy White
  10. I Can Read You Now
  11. Crush On Subtitles
  12. Moving Fast
  13. Much More To Offer

Similar Items:

  1. Another Beginning
  2. Taking Northern Liberties
  3. Giant on the Beach
  4. War of the Wakening Phantoms

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2004-06-13

"Nationwide" is a mature album of silly music by some serious guys dabbling in a silly genre- neo-psychadelic pop-rock. Though with more straightforward production than their previous English-language releases, it confronts the originality issues inherent in the genre (some songs on "Another Beginning" sounded a little TOO much like Lennon or Bowie) much better. The songwriting and overall creativity is almost on par with their 1994 Hebrew-language masterpiece, "H'Ish Sh'ra'ah H'Col" ("The Man Who Saw Everything", on which there is a somewhat superior Hebrew version of Nationwide's To The End), and the performances are the best they have ever been. I especially love hearing the rythym section- Issar Tennenbaum's Keith Moon school of drumming approach is a refreshing departure from the human drum machines of otherwise superlative bands such as Radiohead and Muse (not to mention the neo-pop-punk bands...), and Marc Lazare's bass notes are actually SURPRISING relative to what the guitar is playing.

The newest aspects of this album are how heavy Baruch Ben Izhak's guitars get on most songs, and the surprisingly beautiful gentle songs, Candlelight, Have A Good One, I Can Read You Now, and Much More To Offer. Though the Beatles are frequently and correctly sighted as an influence, the more proper touchstone for the first and last mentioned in the last sentence would have to be Brian Wilson's Smile sessions. Really something very special. Overall, the impression is of prime late-sixties, vaguely post-psychedelic pop, played with a contemporary heavy guitar sound and a much less naive sense of structure. The individual parts of Next Monroe or Mad Routine might have come from classic Beatles, Byrds, or Pink Floyd records (perhaps more accurately, from a fantasy record of The Who covering these songs), but the jumps between them are too surprising even for the deepest cavern of the summer of '68. This is ultimately also the band's failing- the sweet, simple pop components sometimes feel bullied by the air-tight riffs and hey-look-what-I-can-do transitions. But the soft songs are so beautiful, and the hardest rockers so satisfying- it feels unfair to ask more from a genuine 2004 psychadelic rock album.

Music Album:

  1. Traumatized ~ Puppet Show
  2. Pavement-Everything Is Ending Here
  3. Ohio ~ [DARYL]
  4. Puckett's Versus the Country Boy ~ Matt Sharp
  5. The Very Best of Mungo Jerry ~ Mungo Jerry
  6. Truth Will Out ~ Pigface
  7. Nimbus
  8. Sixty Six to Timbuktu ~ Robert Plant
  9. Lovers Island ~ Kenny Vance
  10. Prototype ~ Casual Fiasco

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In the Grass ~ Bobby Previte & Marc Ducret

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Indigenous Technology ~ Ken Schaphorst

All the Best from China ~ Various Artists

Le Perle Degli Squallor ~ Squallor

Reggaeton Fever ~ Inocentes Mc

A Ameaça Continua ~ Tequila Baby

Promised Land: Yakusoku No Chi ~ Shogo Hamada