Iowa [Import]

Iowa [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese pressing of the panty wearing Nu-Metal acts 2001 studio album includes one bonus track, 'Liberate (Live)'. 15 tracks in all.

Tracks:

(515)
People = Shit
Disasterpiece
My Plague
Everything Ends
The Heretic Anthem
Gently
Left Behind
The Shape
I Am Hated
Skin Ticket
New Abortion
Metabolic
Iowa

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Right from the introductory shriek and grind of "(515)," you know Slipknot are deadly serious about making a real heavy metal album. Iowa is intimidating in its unforgiving heaviness. Produced to perfection by wunderkind Ross Robinson, it takes the best of Slayer as a starting point. "People = Shit," "The Heretic Anthem," and "New Abortion" are relentless and wholly brutal, but this is no mere thrash. "Disasterpiece" features a weird, hypnotic riff, while "Left Behind" comes across like a duet between Alice in Chains' Layne Staley and Slayer's Tom Araya. The rerecorded "Gently" builds slowly from industrial atmospherics to a punishing explosion of noise. The title track (also old and formerly known as "Killers Are Quiet") is a deeply unsettling heavy-metal "Midnight Rambler." Frontman Corey Taylor claims to have performed it naked and bleeding from self-inflicted wounds, which isn't hard to believe. This masterfully constructed collection is painfully raw and utterly compelling. --Dominic Wills

Customer Reviews:

Love it!.......2007-03-16

This was the first Slipknot album I have purchased and I'm proud of it. I was wondering how I would like it considering I never really paid attention to them before and listened to bands like Metallica and System of a Down alot but nothing as heavy as this album. I decided to pick it up after an ex-girlfriend of mine showed me The Heretic Anthem.

Although not for the squeemish (as most extreme metal albums are) I say this is a must own for fans of heavy and extreme metal. It didnt sound anything like nu-metal to me.

Some may think the excessive amount of lyrics about breakups and love are not the best option for any band to choose but I dont mind.

I don't want to bombard you with cliche's but let me just put it this way: the way Corey sings/screams alongside Mick's guitar may actually be a very well epic sound.

Check out the track clip previews, especially track 6, the Heretic Anthem. Some of the previews dont catch the best parts of the songs but I'd highly recommend this album to any heavy/extreme metal fan.

-thumbs up-.......2007-02-22

Slipknot is very hit-or-miss, but this album has a few of my favorites.

It's not just a Tac-Nuke, it's another way to say I Hate You.......2007-02-16

The 20th Century was, not so long ago, the most violent in human history.

Man it doesn't take much to get upstaged.

The 21st Century is like some great blood-soaked gut-spattered gory canvas of Satan, and a real work of art it is: Genocide in all its viscera-spattered glory stomping red-toothed & hungry across the Sudan & despoiling Rwanda; the annihilation by 747 of two of America's most iconic skyscrapers; constant headhacking, decapitation, & the development of Suicide Bombing as one Religion's single contribution to culture; riots, looting, burning, raping, maiming to say nothing of the lesser Lights of Violence like typhoons, twisters, earthquakes, and even a hurricane that devoured a major American city while everybody just watched.

Man it's been a doozy, hasn't it? Who needs monsters when we have Mankind?

In this world full of idiots, I'm grateful that I have a band like Slipknot. I'm glad I can spin a brutal little brass-knuckles headcrusher of a CD like Iowa, which is great music to listen to when you want to crush people and break things. When you're tired of idiots on the highway driving in the passing lane at 45 mph, creating a rolling roadblock---the same idiots who scream down leafy & narrow suburban streets at 90 mph or tailgating you within inches of your back bumper when you have nowhere to go.

You with me?

It's great music to just let rampage through your ears, your guts, your windows, when you're sick of the vomit our so-called "Leaders" spew, vomit that passes as wisdom, vomit that assures us we should fret & worry about what terrorist savages think about us, that we should be ready at every instant to bow & scrape & apologize.

It's for those moments when some hideous mainstream sub-normal twists up his face and says "why do you have to be so weird?". It's for everybody who ever said "you're never gonna make it", for every chick who ever shot you down because she was gunning for the QB, who now sells used cars and comes home to the little hovel they call a home, gunning his grungy little Geo through the stoplights.

It's for those days that are Red in Tooth & Claw, when the Rage just spills over and you need something to serve as a soundtrack for fury.

That's "Iowa".

JSG

Heaviest death/trash metal album ever..........2006-12-24

...but all you had to talk about is how you broke up with your girlfriend (just listen to "Everything Ends") and complainig about what a s##tty place your home IOWA is and how your life sucks there, because that's what metal is all about, isn't it, Slipknot?

It's more like a 4 star, but I rated 5 to boost the average........2006-10-06

What an underrated album.
This is definietly Slipknot's best (and only good). When it was released in 2001, I was surprised after their pretty weak debut. I didn't like that album too much, however it had its moments and a great song "W&B". And when Iowa came out, I was glad to hear a pure anger-metal assault, it was a good listen in the sea of fashionable rap-rock bulls**t bands which ones were the kings of the music world back then (crazytown,limpbizkit etc.). Now this band is a SELLOUT, Vol. 3. was disappointing after this and 9.0 Live is by far the worst live album I've ever heard! I dont think Slipknot will sound like this ever again, what a pity, Corey should stay in Stone Sour. Anyway, nevermind about this tragedy, just get this album it improves that this band used to be able to make something decent (however not excellent) and continue it but they've lost it.

The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast) [Angel Reissue]

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Music Man
One of This Country's Finest Musicals Beautifully Re-Mastered
We need a new remaster, nonetheless
Accept no substitutes!
Preston and Cook are the best ever

The Music Man (1957 Original Broadway Cast) [Angel Reissue]

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002SNL
Release Date: 1992-11-17

Tracks:

Act I. Overture/Rock Island - Vern Reed
Act I. Iowa Stubborn - Ensamble
Act I. Ya Got Trouble - Robert Preston/Ensemble
Act I. Piano Lesson - Barbara Cook/Pert Kelton
Act I. Goodnight My Someone - Barbara Cook
Act I. Seventy-Six Trombones - Robert Preston
Act I. Sincere - Buffalo Bills
Act I. The Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me - Robert Preston
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Act I. My White Knight - Barbara Cook
Act I. Wells Fargo Wagon - Eddie Hodges, Ensemble
Act II. It's You - Buffalo Bills
Act II. Shipoopi - Iggie Wolfington, Ensemble
Act II. Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You? - Buffalo Bills, Barbara Cook
Act II. Gary, Indiana - Eddie Hodges
Act II. Till There Was You - Barbara Cook, Robert Preston
Act II. Finale - Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, Ensemble

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Although Robert Preston and Barbara Cook put in stellar performances, it's the music that's the star of this hugely successful document of the 1958 Broadway smash. Written entirely by Meredith Willson, it drew from memories of his childhood in a small Midwestern town. Preston plays a traveling salesman/con artist, while Cook is the dull spinster "Marian the Librarian," whose love for Preston's character makes her come alive. "Seventy-Six Trombones" has become a marching band standard, while "Ya Got Trouble" (featuring dizzying fast-talk from Preston) and "'Til There Was You" (with a gorgeous vocal from Cook) remain well known even among those who have never seen the show. The latter was also a favorite of the Beatles, who covered it on their first album. --Dawn Eden

Customer Reviews:

Music Man.......2007-02-09

The original cast recording brings back the memory of the live production I saw which will always be superior, in my opinion, to the movie version. However, the movie was one of the better "reproductions" of this genre.

One of This Country's Finest Musicals Beautifully Re-Mastered.......2006-11-23

THE MUSIC MAN opened on Broadway on December 19, 1957 to rave reviews from the critics, adulations from the captivated audiences, and the beginning of a long run. This wondrous musical is an 'opera' of sorts in that the piece is not a series of songs connected by the usual musical comedy spoken dialogue. Meredith Willson wrote the music and lyrics in such a way that there is not an extraneous note or word that doesn't contribute to the totality of the work.

Despite the multiple reincarnations of this brilliant show both on film and recording, none of them compares to this original cast. Imagine Barbara Cook (lithe, and new) as Marian the Librarian: Cook still reigns as one of our finest voices on the stage and cabaret rooms today. Robert Preston is not only rich in personality he also delivers the immensely complex patter songs with deft authority. And the Buffalo Bills add the multiple barbershop quartet numbers with authentic sound and professionalism.

This musical holds all of the joys and imaginations and longings that we all hold so dear in our memories of how things used to be - and it is so terrific to return to that stage of ecstasy again. This is a must own CD. Grady Harp, November 06

We need a new remaster, nonetheless.......2006-10-22

A very interesting photo on the liner booklet's back cover demonstrates the one real flaw in this otherwise classic recording: it shows Robert Preston at the album sessions singing at two mikes, a fat Neumann with a Capitol flag and a skinny one, probably an AKG. This can only mean Capitol recorded this in simultaneous mono and stereo takes. With all that knob twiddling the balance had to go off, a problem not entirely corrected by the reissue engineer Bob Norberg, whose remasterings of Ol' Blue's Capitol mono output have earned scorn from some Sinatraphiles for their slight fake echo and stereo effects. (He remastered just about every album in the Broadway Angel series; the monos all appear to have the echo and stereo.) I guess we should be happy to have this in any form at all given how the other majors turned it down. Capitol was late and indifferent to the cast album trade, and it only had three hits before making its monumental closing botch of "Follies." However the label approached it it's still a great and exciting score perfectly performed. Who could have imagined a hit musical with a barbershop quartet? And if only all women could sing like Barbara Cook! Who says you can have too much of a good thing?

With the show's fiftieth anniversary coming up (!) now would be a good time for a remaster. (I know, I know, I'm tired of paying repeatedly for the same product too, but this deserves it.) It should include a second disc with the 1959 Capitol documentary LP "And Then I Wrote 'The Music Man'", where Meredith Willson and his wife Rini detail the eight years of trials and rewrites behind the show. Nor would it hurt to have bonuses like Willson's original take on "Till There Was You" (called "Till I Met You," which Fran Warren evidently first sang on "The Big Show") or a few licensed pop balladeers of the day -- and maybe examples like the 70s jingle for the late lamented Oldsmobile ("Oh ho the new Oldsmobile is a -- comin' down the line...."). It must also include Willson's contentious JFK physical fitness tune "Chicken Fat", recorded about the time "The Music Man" was filmed and available only on oddball Web music sites, where Preston yells and grunts himself into an athletic -- passion. (I keep thinking Allan Sherman recorded a full version of his notorious parody "76 Sol Cohens", but I guess he didn't.) The whole thing should end with a live public-radio performance from 1980 or 1981 where Willson led the superb Detroit Concert Band in "76 Trombones" and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" -- an apt and brilliant finish.

No, I have not forgotten the Beatles, but I fear neither have their lawyers.

Accept no substitutes!.......2006-08-22

This the best version of "The Music Man" available, especially if you're looking for the Broadway cast. The performances here are all terrific, the recording and mastering are great, and the liner notes are informative and thorough. "The Music Man" is available in several other versions and forms, including other releases of the same original cast recording, but without the good mastering or liner notes found here. My wife and I, hoping to listen to this great show with our kids, first purchased other versions that were easier to find (e.g., on iTunes) and those were major disappointments. Buy this CD (Broadway Classics from Angel) and accept no substitutes.

Preston and Cook are the best ever.......2006-07-15

Yes, the film is a delight, and Shirley Jones is certainly good as Marian. But the original cast album of this wonderful musical remains the best version ever, mostly thanks to Barbara Cook, whose voice was and remains a miracle of rare device to listen to.

For years I thought I was the only person who was in love with her voice, wearing out vinyl LPs of this musical with replaying. Then, in the early 80s I saw Cook in a one woman show in London, and discovered I was part of a fanatical following! The other reviews here on Amazon confirm the truth: there is only one truly great Marian, Madam Librarian.

Watch the movie, which is a terrific adaptation of the stage show, go to professional and amateur revivals of the musical, but buy this recording of the score for repeated listening. There is nothing better.

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If Iowa has a soul, his name is Greg Brown
Stays with you ... stays with ... you ..........
Greg captures the heart of the midwest in music
Iowa
Corn fed

The Iowa Waltz
Greg Brown
Manufacturer: Red House
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001B7T
Release Date: 1992-03-23

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Counting Feedcaps
Grand Junction
Out In The Country
Walking The Beans
My Home In The Sky
King Corn
Daughters
Four Wet Pigs
The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home

Customer Reviews:

If Iowa has a soul, his name is Greg Brown.......2006-05-28

The Iowa Waltz is my favorite Greg Brown album. If you grew up in an Iowa small town, you may think it the best album ever made. When the record first came out, there was an attempt to make the title song the Iowa state anthem. It never succeeded, alas. If I could vote, I would pick "Out in the Country" a lovely meandering groove of a song that makes rural Iowa in the summer seem like a dreamy corner of heaven.

Stays with you ... stays with ... you .................2006-04-24

No matter if it's midnight or 35 below, listening to "Out in the Country" you can just see the heat mirages, see the corn and wheat and chikens peckin'. Smell the warmth of the day. And see the gravel roads ramblin' all around. Anyone who grew up in the country can relate. Perhaps those who haven't. The rest is stellar too, but this song is my nirvana and a top 10 favorite of all time. If you're wondering which of Greg's album to buy, you can't go wrong here.

Greg captures the heart of the midwest in music.......2006-04-10

I've lived in Iowa for four decades. Greg Brown also lives and records much of his music here. Writers are advised to "write about what you know." Greg Brown knows Iowa. Honestly, I think I'd rather live in the mountains of Costa Rica. But this place does have its charms, and Greg Brown documents them.

This is one of Brown's early albums. Stylistically it is different from his latest work, though virtually all of Brown's albums are in the modern folk tradition. You'll hear echoes of Leon Redbone's old-timey jazz, Bob Dylan's talking blues, and a stereotypical bluegrass sound, like the Alison Krauss band without Krauss.

In terms of subject matter, Greg focuses on the serenity, family, community, humor, and cultural continuity of Iowa rural life. Plus there is the ever-present theme of agriculture -- the state motto is "A Place to Grow." In other words, pigs, cows, chickens, corn, beans, and so on.

Many of these selections have a simplicity and naturalness that make them sound like classic songs from 100 years ago. The recording quality is only mediocre, and I think the arrangements are a bit on the busy side. Having fewer players might have improved things overall. The soloists are good, but not great -- you won't hear any instrumental virtuosity or profundity.

That said, this is one of Brown's classic records. Listen to this, and you can almost smell Grandma's cooking, hear the corn creaking as it grows, and feel the squish of the cowpie you just stepped in. Hey, it ain't all roses! But this music celebrates midwestern ways like a fond Garrison Keiler remembrance.

This is probably as good an introduction to Greg Brown's music as any, and I recommend it.

Iowa .......2005-04-17

I honestly bought this album because I was born in Iowa and was interested in any good artists from the state. And oh what a beautiful album I found!

Iowa Waltz feels so authentic in its music. It resonates with the Iowa dirt where Greg Brown is from.

Greg Brown writes some poetic great songs that are very true to Iowa - and the Midwest in general.

This was a tremendous debut from our modern times' greatest folk artist. The sound recording sounds average but adds to the rural feel of it.

What a treasure - even if you're not from Iowa!

Corn fed.......2004-05-08

If you are from the Midwest and don't have this cd, do yourself a favor and get it. After moving away from ol Iowa, the music of this cd moved me so much that I could almost smell the humidity, see the lawns of fireflies, hear the approaching thunder storms, taste the sweet corn - needless to say - very vivid!

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Another great trip down the MFU memory lane
The best of the three Double CDs ORIGINAL soundtrack release

The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Vol. 2

Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006SSQ7U
Release Date: 2005-01-04

Tracks:

First Season End Title
Vulcan Affair (Suite No. 2)
Iowa-Scuba Affair
Shark Affair
Deadly Games Affair (Suite No. 2)
Meet Mr. Solo
Giuoco Piano Affair
King of Knaves Affair: Suite No. 2
First Season Main Title [Revised]
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Spy With My Face
Second Season Main Title
Alexander the Greater Affair
Ultimate Computer Affair
Very Important Zombie Affair
Dippy Blonde Affair
Seadly Goddess Afair
Moonglow Affair

Tracks:

One of Our Spies Is Missing
Third Season Main Title
Sort of Do-It-Youself Dreadful Affair
Galatea Affair
Pop Art Affair
Come With Me to the Casbah Affair
Off-Broadway Affair
Concrete Overcoat Affair
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Seven Wonders of the World Affair

Customer Reviews:

Another great trip down the MFU memory lane.......2005-10-19

Volume 2 (comprised of 2 CDs) is another first rate compilation of the series' original music and not to be missed by U.N.C.L.E. fans. The liner notes are wonderful and add a lot to ones appreciation of the music.

My only problem is that THE CDs ARE COPY PROTECTED! Considerable work is needed to get the music onto your iPod, if you really want the music in your mp3 collection. This is a major hassle and a surprise, since the first set in the series was not copy protected.

The best of the three Double CDs ORIGINAL soundtrack release.......2005-07-12

Many of us have always thought The Man From UNCLE had the best music for a TV series ever, and this three double CD release confirms this. Wow! I'd be just happy with one CD, but having SIX (three double CDs packages) is absolutely out of this world, I mean, a lifetime wait come true.

Indeed, this is an unbelievable collection of three double CDs packages with the complete series soundtrack, and I mean the complete music, not a tune is missing.

And this is the ORIGINAL Man From Uncle music. Let me stress the point: this is the four years ORIGINAL soundtrack with the original recordings as they were heard throughout the series, not a no-name orchestra doing personal versions of the stuff. The audio transfer is very, very good, the music from late episodes is even in stereo.

Each individual CD carries over 70 minutes of music. All in all there you have the four TV seasons main titles and all, absolutely all of TMFU unforgetable music.

This is not a chronological release, meaning, all CDs have a mix of music from all four TV seasons. Volume 1 is heavier on early TV seasons stuff, fans of Jerry Goldsmith will love it. Those of us who prefer what Gerald Fried and later Richard Shores did with TMFU music, then volume 2 is mandatory. If you are a fan, you can't miss any of these six CDs. However if buying all three double packages is too much for you, you must go with Volume 2, no questions asked. Volume three is the weakest of them as it brings "suites" and a whole CD with "The Girl From Uncle" soundtrack, but you have a bonus "Open Channel D" beeper.

Each package is gorgeous, each with a glossy color booklet with extensive liner notes with details on how each tune was written to a specific TV series episode and how it was used onwards. You have bios on the composers, on how the recordings were made, even an overview on how many instruments were available in each of the years the music was recorded.

So, throw away your Hugo Montenegro Man From Uncle CD, this is the REAL thing.

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Manufacturer: Centaur
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Days Between Stations

Manufacturer: Dog Gone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000F7R9XY

Product Description

13 songs. Recorded October 1988, Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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House of Mud

Manufacturer: Trailer
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006I4Z1
Release Date: 2002-08-06

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House of Mud
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Tell Me Quickly
Highway Home
Can't Go There
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quit being cheap and buy the record

Beating a Dead Horse

Manufacturer: Collekt
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00067ZFE8
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

Life is Cartoons
Always Drunk
Panhandling
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Take a Few
The Aftertaste
Round and Round (Feat. Supastition)
Precursor
Another Design
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Anger Management
Breathe Deep
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Product Description

This is pure corn-fed discontent. Former Iowa resident Arecee releases his second record, "Beating a Dead Horse", under NYC's Collekt Records in Brooklyn, New York. His dark melodic beats and thick delivery are a refreshing alternative to today's bubblegum thug rap and purist hip-hop. On the track titled 'Breathe Deep' we hear a glimpse of a tragic past romance gone sour while the up-beat 'Round and Round' features hip-hop heavyweight Supastition. In 'Life is Cartoons,' Arecee proclaims that "hip-hop is stupid"; after watching MTV, I couldn't agree more. Lush self produced beats and deeply personal lyrics make this release a breath of fresh air in today's copycat music industry. Arecee's first release, "Direction for Children" featuring Sage francis, is currently in stores.

Customer Reviews:

quit being cheap and buy the record.......2004-11-12

if it walks, talks, and quacks like good hiphop well it must be. don't even think about it. just buy it. arecee's second official release shows what hard work and dedication bring to the struggling sound of current hip POP. if you need respite from the inexplicable crap flooding the scene and stinkin up the charts, this is your album.
prizm the nvzbl sez "Support Your Local Rapper"

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A Very Mulberry Christmas: Iowa Version
Mulberry Lane
Manufacturer: World Egg
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Little Saint Nick
Even If
Carol Of the Bells
Medley: O Little Town Of Bethlehem/O Come, O Come, Emmanuel/What Child Is This?
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Chrismas Kisses
Medley: We Three Kings/Star Of Wonder
Spending Christmas Time With You
Christmas Time Is Here
Medley: Jing-A-Ling/Jingle Bells
Bellean Wood
Christmas In Nebraska
The Child
Ave Maria
Medley: Coventry Carol/Silent Night/O Holy Night
Christmas In Iowa

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Acoustic Grunge

Iowa Anvil
The Graze
Manufacturer: J-Shirt Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002LSZOU
Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

Devices
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Rely
Maudlin
I Am the Little Girl
Doubt
Nostalgia
Filler
Busy
Imbecile

Album Description

Ten songs of melodic, hook-laden, lo-fi indie melancholia in sparse guitar-and-vocal arrangements as well as full-on rock, with guitars and vocals reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel and Nirvana. Iowa Anvil has also been compared to Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, the Beatles, and Bright Eyes.

Customer Reviews:

Acoustic Grunge.......2005-09-14

The Graze's debut album, Iowa Anvil, is a sort of amalgamation of early Nirvana/Soundgarden style grunge with a touch of Death Cab and a hit of Damien Rice. The lyrics are solid, not necessarily rhyming but simply doing what they want when they want, and the stories they tell are enjoyable.

I have to say, though, the music itself is where this album really shines. It really is a grunge style, but in a flavor that was really uncommon when grunge was popular. I mean, when one thinks of grunge, one generally thinks of distorted, electric guitars - and don't get me wrong, they show up a couple of times, and to great effect. But the guitar's being mainly acoustic lends this album a nice, mellow quality that most grunge doesn't have to offer. Now, that might not be someone's cup of tea; but it happens to be mine.

This is definitely a wonderful debut album, so if you enjoy grunge, and more mellow music, this cd is just about perfect for you.

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107 FM Metroplois Hits [Import]

12 De Sus Mas Grandes Exitos

Mozart: Credo-Messe

Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits