Tight Connection

Tight Connection Artist: I Am the World Trade Center
Label: Kindercore Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 675818007529
EAN: 0675818007529
ASIN: B000068QU5


Release Date: 2002-07-09

Tight Connection


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Tracks:

  1. The Postcard
  2. Big Star
  3. Believe In Me
  4. Shoot You Down
  5. Pretty Baby
  6. Hold On To My Lines
  7. Call Me
  8. Can't Take The Heat
  9. California Dreaming Again
  10. Dancing Alone
  11. Soiree

Similar Items:

  1. The Cover Up
  2. Out of the Loop

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars What happened here?.......2004-07-05

I was a fan of this band even before getting their first album, Out of the Loop. It was so unique and raw while at the same time catchy and uplifting. With their second album, Tight Connection, I was expecting a little more polish to their sound along with the same trademark toe-tapping song style. Instead I found this album to actually be less polished than their first one. What happened? It's like Dan Geller ignored whatever lessons he learned when making the first album.

In spite of me being harsh about the album sounding more amateurish than I had hoped it's still an album worth having. You will find some really nice tunes here. Though I am not in agreement with others posters on how their cover song from Blondie ("Call Me") sounds. I don't like it. I appreciate the effort and like where they were going, but it needs a lot more work.

I can't recommend this album for the new listener. I think it would be better to get Out of the Loop first. If you absolutely love it then go ahead and get Tight Connection. You will be a lot better off getting yourself used to their sound before getting this one.

4 out of 5 stars Where is The Party?.......2004-04-20

This band has always suffered from the name that hardly describes the band. Okay, maybe there is two people in it, like two men standing at the end of Manhattan. There once was two big water tanks in Williamsburg too. And those are destroyed and gone too. Dan Geller is smart enough to get a chick singer to front the band who looks like Nina Persson and sings like Debbie Harry. In fact, they name check Blondie with the song "Pretty Baby" but prefer to cover the song "Call Me" which is a song about prostitution as you may remember. Occasionally they draw from "lowlife" era New Order on songs like "The Postcard." But they really outdo themselves with "Believe in Me" that sounds like a big summer Ibiza anthem.

When you expect some of the easy-going pop that Kindercore is used to, you find that this band has more to do with Layo & Bushwacka and maybe also Moloko (another successful girl/guy duo). Some songs like "California Dreaming Again" sort of make us all want to take Ecstasy and forget all about 9/11. "The Tight Connection" is a great party record. It has surprises. I think that they will be around for a while.

5 out of 5 stars GREAT ALBUM.......2004-04-17

highly recommend it if you like dance music. great to shake your booty to

5 out of 5 stars A favorite..........2003-10-20

With all of the great releases lately, IATWTC's Tight Connection is of course one of the best! I am a big 80's and new wave fan, as well as the techno/trance, electroclash and indie rock styles. This album fits well in between all of these different sounds.

Whenever I hear "Big Star" by IATWTC, I get that special feeling that only a few songs can do. I love a song that is sweet and simple, and that is what most of the album does. I would compare this group to Postal Service, but that is the only group even remotely similar. Think of 80's new wave style with a bit more modern beat and less sophistication. Remember, less is better. That is why this album has such repitition in my playlist.

4 out of 5 stars

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  1. TCV3 ~ The Cherry Valence
  2. On the Road: 03-22-03 Denver, CO ~ String Cheese Incident
  3. Message for the Mess Age ~ NRBQ
  4. For Every Solution There's...
  5. Sur O No Sur
  6. Compelled By Fear ~ Killjoy [Necrophagia]
  7. The Early Four Track Recordings ~ Of Montreal
  8. All the Way From Stockholm to Philadelphia: Live 71/72 ~ Mott the Hoople
  9. Cross-Rocks
  10. Cold Water Songs ~ The Broken Family Band

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Big Band Machine ~ Buddy Rich

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Rhythm of Brazil ~ Various Artists

Nourith ~ Nourith

Roots & Fruit ~ Orchestre Baobab

Serie Raizes Do Samba ~ Ary Barroso