Rooms by the Hour

Rooms by the Hour Artist: Rustic Overtones
Label: Ripchord
Category: Music


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


UPC: 793447712222
EAN: 0793447712222
ASIN: B000005WF2


Release Date: 1998-01-20

Rooms by the Hour


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Tracks:

  1. Feast Or Famine
  2. Girl Germs
  3. Check
  4. The Letter
  5. Hardest Way Possible
  6. Kicking And Screaming
  7. Pink Belly
  8. Sugarcoat
  9. The Heist
  10. Machine Maker
  11. History Crush
  12. Shaker
  13. Iron Boots
  14. Outtro

Similar Items:

  1. Viva Nueva
  2. Long Division
  3. Paranoid Social Club

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars moody and progressive lyrical gem.......2007-02-22

What sets this band apart from other great bands of the Seacoast New Hampshire/Maine jam band renaissance of the mid `90s (Groovechild, Percy Hill, Kristin Mueller Trio) is the quality of the lyrics. Like these other great innovators, you can't really file them into a single bin in the record store (Ska? Grunge? Even jazz and hip-hop at times?). In between the hard-edged angst of their first widely available record (Long Division) and the major label deal that cast a slick gloss on their productions (Viva Nueva), this is the best of the bunch.

Beginning with the self-referential and internally rhyming "Feast or Famine" ("i had a chance but i missed though/can i write the hits though?/the kind they play on the radio stations/patience is a virtue if the agents haven't/heard you, preferred you"), this carries us through Dave Gutter's desperate romanticism ("If we whisper real softly they can't hear a word that we say/The feeling I get is everyone's passion is dead/and the dreams that we had were replaced by demons instead/they listened real close and they heard every word that we said/I tip the rim of my hat, I cross fingers behind my back that it's not all grim as that"). Some other songs are presumably less self-referential and more universal, though the subject material can be pretty heavy in Girl Germs ("thirty minutes sweet for a lifetime sour") and The Heist ("For once in my life can I do this one thing right?"). This moody and progressive album will soothe you and rile you up, even within the span of a single song.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome awesome awesome.......2004-05-09

This is a really great album that I would recommend to anyone. If you are a lover of ska, funk, rock, whatever... these guys have got it. They really blend a wide range of instruments and great vocals into an awesome sound. I can't really classify which of their albums is my favorite because they're all really great, but if I had to it would most likely be this one! It really demonstrates the wide range of their talent, groove and is just plain fun. I've had the album for years and never get tired of it, and it is always a great pick me up. If you like this, I'd definitely reccommend Viva Nueva and Long Division. Great stuff.
It's a shame they broke up because they really had a good thing going, but keep listening and enjoying. The band may have gone but their music is still around. !!

5 out of 5 stars broke up.......2003-07-25

unfortunetly the band has broken up. the lead singer and bass player have gone on to form Paranoid Social Club.

5 out of 5 stars I love this CD!!! You will too!.......2001-05-10

Wow...about the only thing that beats listening to this CD is seeing Rustic Overtones in concert. 02/23/01 at the UMass Amherst Skybox was amazing. But this CD does everything but capture the live experience. With great guitars, killer horns and a crazy organ, Gutter, Spencer, Tony and the rest are always giving the latest pop bands a lesson or two in style and beat. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS CD, BUY IT NOW. You won't regret it. In fact, you'll thank yourself. ADD IT TO YOUR SHOPPING CART NOW!

5 out of 5 stars

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