Susan Across the Ocean

Artist: Silos
Label: Sonic Pyramid
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 730876900226
EAN: 0730876900226
ASIN: B00006F845

Release Date: 2002-08-06

Susan Across the Ocean

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Tracks:

Let's Take Some Drugs And Drive Around
Upside Down Instead
Shaking All Over The Place
Evangeline
All She Wrote
Wanna Ride
Light From The Box
Susan Across The Ocean
Change The Locks
The Sound Next Door
Letter To Send
Start To Burn
Fallen Angel
Star
I'm Straight
Nothing's Gonna Last

Album Description

Susan Across The Ocean has been reissued with 4 Bonus Tracks! Possibly the most cohesive Silos album, it was recorded start to finish in 18 days by a band who had road-tested the material for months and essentially made a great studio recording of their "live show." It is The Silos of 1993 in all their glory. Mary Rowell had returned on violin. Manuel Verzosa had added his effervescent personality, gorgeous voice and dogged work ethic to leader Walter Salas-Humara's thoughtful songwriting and world weary voice. The album burns with the hard won integrity of experienced musicians lurching forward through a blinding epiphany of new found optimism. <P>"Let's Take Some Drugs And Drive Around" is a classic tale of desperate kids trying to escape small town boredom set to a soaring rock-soul beat. "Shaking All Over The Place" is an enigma surrounded by a swirly/moody groove. "Sounds Next Door" tells the tale of a plot to subvert a neighboring government gone hopelessly wrong. There are rockers, greasy back beats, and great covers including Jonathan Richman's "I'm Straight," but the title track is this disc's masterpiece. Performed simply by voice and guitar, it is a man questioning the worth of his long life. Though the character is happily married and has seen his three wonderful children grow up, he still can't help wondering about Susan.

Album Description

Only Walter Salas-Humara and Mary Rowell remain from the band's original lineup, but a wonderful batch of introspective originals by Salas-Humara and rocking covers of favorites by Lucinda Williams, Jonathan Richman, and pal Michael Hall make this 1994 album the proper follow-up to 1987's Cuba. Sonic Pyramid.

Customer Reviews:

Wish I Could Like It Better.......2004-10-04

Every few years I slap a few bucks down and sample another Silos CD, hoping to find a better balance between -- on the plus side -- terrific driving music (as in I'm Over You from The Silos), well-written intelligent ballads and -- on the big minus side -- plodding and overlong blues roots numbers. Alas, Susan Across the Ocean is the same as the others. For every terrific, Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around, Wanna Ride (a noised up Little Honda-like number) and title cut, there are far more than enough songs like All She Wrote, the paranoid Sounds Next Door, and Jonathan Richmond's I'm Straight, which Salas lead man Walter Salas-Humara unfortunately plays straight. Kind of splitting the difference and fairly interesting is Lucinda Williams's Change the Locks, which gets a very bluesy arrangement, but an almost wistful vocal from Salas-Humara.

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