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2004-06-26T05:38:41Z

NEW WET KOJAK

this is the glamorous : new wet kojak ★★★★★
for never & ever : kill hannah ★★★★☆
between the never and the now : vendetta red ★☆☆☆☆
everybody down : matthew ★★★★☆
soma holiday : greenwheel ★☆☆☆☆
international chaos : punx unite ★★☆☆☆
volume 2 : punk uprisings ★★★☆☆

this is the glamorous was better than i expected it to be. i'm surprised at the fact that they were that good and that i'd never heard of them before. the album itself is from 2003 which isn't that long ago. i paid only $1.99 and it was worth the 2 bucks if not more. i love buying cd's in generations for this exact reason. i never know when i'll find a great album such as this that'll become a definite favourite in my collection. well now to sumarize new wet kojak. they first appeared in amsterdam on july 1992 but kept quite a low profile, recording in chicago and dc. the band consists of scott mccloud (drums, vox, 4-string acoustic deluxe guitar) and johnny temple (bass rigging, some guitar and back vox), usually accompanied by charles bennington (sax-o-pho-neo) and geoff turner (electric guitar). new wet kojak fits probably into the category of lounge jazz. they've put out one album and one ep before this one which i'd love to get my hands on (do things & no. 4 ep). i'd definitely suggest that anyone who's into any ambient, relaxing music, electro-ish beats get this album. definitely.

here we've got kill hannah's latest album for never and ever. overall it's fuckin' amazing but it's one of those cd's that you're going to listen to repeatedly. it'll start to build dust inside your cd player and after the first 100 plays you're going to get bored with it and throw it in a corner where it's going to stay until you re-discover it years later. haha. summary enough? nah. well seriously, i haven't been able to stop playing this cd. it's just that good. my favourite song on this album would have to be #5 "boys and girls". the intro is the best, the repeated "baby. baby. baby." just makes me melt. & it doesn't hurt that all of them are way easy on the eyes, especially the singer. well they seem to have 6 albums that actually came out before this one. i'm surprised they've got so much history. i had no idea but i'm now determined to download some of their old stuff, see what i think of it. i might update with that later. ps- i paid $7:99. i got my money's worth.

so.. vendetta red. god i was generous to give this album/band one star. it really fucking sucked. i mean there's just no other way to put it. i wanted to unplug my stereo and throw it out my window. they're overrated. probably why the only song i ever really heard before i bought the album was "shatterday". the one song on the album i can listen to without internal and external bleeding of my ears. i want my fucking $1.99 back faggots! eh, they formed back in fucking 1998 so you'd think over time they'd get better, i think not. they should just break up already. eric chapman has a pretty good voice and all so he can maybe start another band if anything. & did you know that all the band members sing? don't ask me how but they do. last but not least, i give the cover art ★★★ stars. haha. it's the least i can do right.

matthew had a hit back in 2002 and for the past week or so that one song i once loved "everybody down" popped into my head and i couldn't get rid of it. i couldn't even remember the band that sang it at the time. all i knew was that i was crazy about this bloody song. so once i saw this album as i was browsing through cd's in generations i knew this was it. once again i got it for a mere $1.99. when i got home and popped it into my stero, on came my favourite song. god, i almost went into tears. it's just that amazing and moving. brain mcsweeny's voice is angelic yet so rugged. it can be so calm one moment and then when he belts out a certain part you can practically feel the words he's singing.. even if it's just "oooh". well enough swooning, matthew consists of brian mcsweeny (guitar, vocals), jason sipe (guitar), james scott (bass) & matt sumpter (drums). they started playing together in chicago back in 1999 but in late 2002 their bass player left to pursue other opportunies, who was then replaceed by adrian walther. this cd's relaxing as all hell. i could just lay back in bed, relaxing while this spins it's tune. those are really the best type of cd's. it's a kinda pop-ish cd but i think you can look past that and see it for it's creativity and artsy nature instead.</div>

the rest don't really need to be summarized. they were all right. i particularly liked punk uprisings. but that's all for now. if i buy any new cds i'll be sure to update.

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