Let's Get to Second

Artist: Chomsky
Label: Aezra Records
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 829955100005
EAN: 0829955100005
ASIN: B00022XDTG

Release Date: 2004-05-18

Let's Get to Second

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Tracks:

Light
Animal
00:15:00
Gravitate
Sigmund
Escape
Fine
Doves
Over
Whippoorwill
Clockwork
Circle

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Customer Reviews:

Don't Do It.......2006-03-26

Please do not buy this record. Any money you spend will go to the label that basically destroyed Chomsky's career. Labels aren't supposed to do that. It's amazing that a label with so much money could have so little foresight and common sense. Aezra continuously backed up tour dates, the album recording dates, and then blacklisted this record when they realised that Idol records could release songs on itunes that Aezra had foolishly elected to put on the record even though idol still had the rights to them. It's a testament to how not to run a label; Chomsky sold almost 4,000 records on little Idol Records in Dallas but big bad Aezra couldn't even hit 400. Don't do it--buy the first two records but let this one die in peace. Aezra should get 5 to 15 in the state penn for what they did to Chomsky.

Chomsky hits it out of the park!.......2006-01-17

This Dallas based quartet scores a home run with this release. This is not just your ordinary run-of-the-mill "power pop" or "emo" music, this is great production combined with intricate arrangements. This is sheer greatness!

Sean Halleck's vocals are great, passionate, and meaningful. They more than bring into focus the real meaning of their incredible lyrics and song content. A good example of this is the song "Clockwork", where Halleck sings Arkhipov, the Soviet commander that refused to fire nuclear weapons on the U.S. during the Cuban missile crisis.

As for musicianship you really need to listen to The Police influence in "Whippoorwill" or the XTC influence of "Fine" to get a real idea of how good these guys are. Speaking as a producer and musician myself I understand how intricate and difficult their music is to play.

It's refreshing to hear music of this caliber in a time where mediocre American Idol generated Pop Stars and criminal Rap artists are considered the "standard" for good music.

Doesn't make it to first.......2004-09-15

Take a look at that cover. Isn't it beautiful, with all those little intertwined silver lines, so complex that it looks like the inside of a computer chip? If only the music were as entrancing. 80s-style guitar pop is warmed over in Chomsky's third release, "Let's Get to Second" -- the sort of light album you might dance to once, then never listen to again.

It opens on a vaguely XTC-esque note on the catchy, lightweight "Light," and bouncy "00:15:00" ("Fifteen minutes to rock! It only takes..."), but stumbles with "Animal," a singsongy ditty that outstays its welcome, and "Gravitate," a weirdly downbeat song full of Sean Hallack's angsty vocals.

Things take a slight upturn with "Escape," an enchantingly bizarre track full of slashy, short riffs and an eerie mix. But then the album loses its momentum -- the songs dip back into mediocre guitar pop, which isn't nearly as fast or as catchy as the opening tracks were.

"Let's Get to Second" is passable so long as it sticks to the light catchy stuff, rather than sputtery pop and ballads so overwrought that they're funny. So long as they're just telling us that we have fifteen -- ten -- five minutes to rock, things go smoothly.

But with "Fine," the music starts sounding chaotic. The slashing guitar and bass get buried under the mixing, and the percussion is hit-and-miss -- sometimes you can hear it, sometimes you can't. The overall effect is that of watered-down XTC and other 80s pop-rock -- it's moderately entertaining, but not something to grab more than once.

Sean Halleck has a pretty good voice, solid and pleasant to listen to. He should cut the dramatics, though -- he sounds hammy when he tries to be emotional. And the songwriting is... not so great. It ranges from the bland "And I just can't feel free/when I have lost touch with me" to the cringingly awful "No time to waste/take some time face/must fill in that hole/and I am in the know."

Chomsky won't even make it to first with "Let's Get To Second." Bland guitar pop with a handful of fairly catchy tunes, this is nothing special and not worth checking out more than once.

A Must Buy!!!.......2004-07-09

Chomsky is a solid band with a killer CD. I have seen these guys live and they are incredible! This entire CD is flawless. My favorite songs are "Fine," "15:00," "Gravitate," and 'Light." You can keep listening to this CD and never get tired of hearing it. This is a must buy! It would make even the most comprehensive CD collection complete.

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Choices ~ Brian Bromberg

Heading North ~ Jack Wilkins Quartet

Cool School ~ Various Artists

Off the Charts ~ The DiMartino, Osland Jazz Orchestra

Cocktails With Cavallaro ~ Carmen Cavallaro

Grandes Sucessos ~ Lindomar Castillo

Weekend in Havana ~ Xavier Cugat

Selecao de Sucessos 1986-1989 ~ Leandro & Leonardo

Koizukiyo ~ Atsumi Hirohata

Banzai Attack ~ Jitterin Jinn