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Artist: Russell Simins
Label: Grand Royal Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 758148008920
EAN: 0758148008920
ASIN: B00004Z3N3

Release Date: 2000-10-17

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Tracks:

I'm Not A Model
Public Places
Jim's Problem
Don't You Believe
No 90210
Comfortable Place
World Over
Feel That Emotion
Scope
Cookies And Cream
No Straight Line
Everything Falls Apart
Stay

Customer Reviews:

Some variety, at least.......2004-06-05

In many ways this comes close to being a standard adolescent white-boy pre-rap-thrash hard rock. The opening track features a woman explaining how to er, perform (...) as the music pounds away. The very next track is a three-chord anthem about getting it on in public places with a woman who "likes girls, but she likes me better" - kind of infantile, but it totally rocks the house. It's all in good fun.

But there's also a lot of other styles and stuff on here. Some of it sounds a whole lot like Beck. There's some sampling and scratching and hip hop stuff, and lots of weird sound effects and instrumentation, and some cool background singing ladies (Mio Hatori sounds wonderful on the last track). The lyrics seem to get a little less better(...), but then again they don't really seem to be saying anything particularly special. And um, I hate to be mean, but the biggest problem is how Mr Simins' rather nasal singing voice just drones along annoyingly despite every vocal effects trick applied.

Altogether okay, nothing worth writing home about, but tracks 2, 5 & 7 are worth a few spins.

Delicious.......2003-01-04

This record is absolutely delicious... no weak moments, only pure energy. Altough it's not a chef d'oeuvre, this album is very rythmic and pretty cool to listen to. I'll give a 5/5 for the fun factor...

See ya

Not a single disappointing cut.......2001-12-08

I've always been a big fan of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and the side projects Simins has been involved in (Boss Hog, Butter 08), but I was blown away by this solo album. Top to bottom, it's a great listen all the way through (and as I discovered on a sixteen-hour trip to St. Louis, great driving music, too). Every song is musically and lyrically complex, alternately brash and subtle, but always clever and usually playful. I hooted with delight when I recognized a sample from "the Sensuous Woman" ('...the testicle is an egg, and I'm very careful not to break the shell..'). This is one of those albums that you find yourself listening to again and again, and noticing little hooks or lyrics you never heard the previous hundred times, while you shake your moneymaker.

don't let the hurtin' heal.......2001-05-23

see, i am biased . . . jsbx rock my sometimes small little world. russell can beat the hell out of some drums and on this cd, he beats the hell out of me. i have talked to those who hate this album . . . maybe they were just seeking something different. to me, it is like third grade, when we all got to wash the firetruck. its happy, its fun and it will dry off in the end. i would like the entire world to support russell simins, but that is probably not realistic. just remember, if you buy or listen to this cd, just try to enjoy yourself. it really doesn't matter in the end anyway.

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