Gaga for Gigi

Gaga for Gigi Artist: Volumizer
Label: Mint Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 773871005725
EAN: 0773871005725
ASIN: B0000630DN


Release Date: 2002-03-05

Gaga for Gigi


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Tracks:

  1. I Promise You, Thomas
  2. Two Words
  3. What's Your Problem?
  4. Solo
  5. Nowhere To Hide
  6. Why Not Today?
  7. One Chance
  8. Silence
  9. Tell Her
  10. The Trouble With Me
  11. Falling

Amazon.com

<I>Gaga for Gigi</I> answers the question "Where do old punks go after they settle down?" In the case of these former members of seminal Vancouver bands the Dishrags, Pointed Sticks, and UJ3RK5, it's on to better and catchier things with a new group called Volumizer. The one newcomer, singer Shannon Oksanen, has a fine rock & roll voice, and she snarls lines like "There's a line at the supermarket / But you butt right in" as if the world owed her a cake just for being born. Former Pointed Stick Bill Napier-Hemy, visual artist and former UJ3RK5-er Rodney Graham, and ex-Dishrag Jade Blade add a wall of crunchy, tasty guitar, while New Pornographer John Collins makes everything sound crisp and fresh. Not all the songs are quite as hooky as the opening number, "I Promise, Thomas," but the pleasures of the band's sound and Blade's economical, sharp songwriting mean there's rarely a dull moment. For fans of female-fronted bands from Blondie to Veruca Salt, <I>Gaga for Gigi</I> is pure ear candy. <I>--Shawn Conner</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fun CD!!!.......2004-02-26

No one's ever heard of Volumizer, so I guess they disbanded a long time ago. I listen to Gaga for Gigi at least once a week. The songs on it are fun and there's one for any mood you might happen to be in.

You will never stop singing "I Promise You Thomas" - it's that catchy. My favorite tracks are that one, "Two Words," "Why Not Today," "Nowhere to hide," and "Falling." Volumizer's sound is light and fun to sing along to. The only songs I skip every time are "What's Your Problem" and "Solo", which are not bad songs, they just get old really fast.

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