Palomar II

Palomar II Artist: Palomar
Label: Self-Starter Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 711574453825
EAN: 0711574453825
ASIN: B000063Y1Q


Release Date: 2002-04-23

Palomar II


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Tracks:

  1. Knockout
  2. Static
  3. Lesion
  4. The Single
  5. Half-life
  6. I'll Come Running
  7. Evening Falls At The Buffalo Bar
  8. Up!
  9. New Day
  10. Capital
  11. Emily Song
  12. Either Or
  13. Trade Off
  14. Can't Wake Up

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This is good and fun, and so fun its good.......2004-04-09

Listen to a couple of the samples and you will not be disapointed. Fun rock, somewhere between Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, and the GoGoS. Its been in my rotation for quite some time now.

5 out of 5 stars Palomar = Totally rad, like to the max.......2004-02-04

Palomar II is chock full of awesome goodness. Buy it or live in regret for the rest of your sad and lonely life. Seriously. Stop being lame and just love Palomar already. Sheesh.

5 out of 5 stars My wife's cousin is now the drummer for this great band!.......2004-01-26

Palomar is truly a great band - fully of catchy, angular, pop punk tunes. Every song rocks - it's the kind of music that you can't seem to get out of your head. And I'm not saying that just because my wife's cousin (Dale W. Miller) is now the drummer. Frankly, the bands that he's previously been in have been hit or miss for me. But he really landed in a good situation this time. I believe that Palomar is destined for big things. They kind of remind me of Elastica or the Breeders. Get this album, enjoy the great tunes (especially Knockout & the cover of Eno's I'll come Running), & watch out for their new album, coming out soon!

5 out of 5 stars Wake up call.......2003-09-02

If you order a martini at the Bowery Ballroom you should be careful of getting burned. The vodka in mine was at least part napalm.

And I still regret taking such a big gulp of the stuff right before Palomar started playing Trade Off because I definitely forgot to swallow, making the burns worse and sending my esophagus straight to hell.

(As an aside, I hope I'm never accused of calling anyone "700 times a day.")

I'd never seen Palomar before, never heard one of their songs, but even over the fuzzy speakers in the basement bar where I was waiting for Rainier Maria to play, the power Palomar has deep down in all those damn catchy guitar hooks was able to convince me to abandon the burning martini and move my feet toward the stage.

There I came face-to-face with what looked to be an all-female (apologies to the drummer who I couldn't see) four-piece synched together with fearsome split-second precision and some songs that bit and chewed in ways that I'm still trying to get my brain around.

Most of the bite seemed to emanate from the lead singer who might be the only lyricist/musician since Johnny Rotten to blaze with the type of chainsaw ambition that her lyrics were full-of. Johnny Rotten's ambition was white hot and Rachel Palomar's ambition is white cold. Either way you're still gonna get burned.

Outwardly Palomar's sound is a little like what you'd expect if the Beach Boys and the GoGo's got together with Kim Deal and Black Francis to cover a bunch of Alvin and the Chipmunks songs. But that description doesn't do Palomar any justice.

Because trying to understand the war that is popular music in America is all about trying to figure out where the music wants to take you. Britney wants you in a seedy strip club full of ATMs. Wilco wants you at a county fair where they serve vegetarian corndogs. Palomar puts you in overdrive, headed for a place that doesn't exist yet where every bar is full of friends, every friendship is full of honesty and honesty just might be a ticket to heaven.

4 out of 5 stars

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  3. Stone the Crows ~ Stone the Crows
  4. Westminster Affair ~ The Monochrome Set
  5. All by Myself ~ Eric Carmen
  6. Punk Singles Collection ~ Cockney Rejects
  7. All Things to You ~ The Cucumbers
  8. Teen Love/Early Months ~ No Trend
  9. Was Denn: Hits '74-'95 ~ Nina Hagen
  10. The Jazz Butcher's Free Lunch! ~ The Jazz Butcher

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Chet ~ Chet Baker

The Complete Octet Sessions ~ Dave Brubeck

Musicante ~ Pino Daniele

Pule Mua ~ Kelii Taua

Journey to Ireland ~ Various Artists

Salsa Pa' Gozar ~ Tumbao

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