Oranger / Shutdown the Sun & From The...
Album: | Shutdown the Sun & From The... | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Oranger | Added: | Oct 2003 | |
Label: | Jackpine Social Club |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2004-02-02 | Pull Date: | 2004-04-05 |
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Week Ending: | Mar 28 | Mar 14 | Feb 29 | Feb 22 | Feb 8 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Apr 15, 2008: | Overthrow of PA Pop Overthrow (sub for Phil Andrews)
Going Under |
4. | Mar 11, 2005: | Distraction-Limited
Cut Off Yer Thumbs |
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2. | Aug 18, 2006: | Memory Select
Pleschette Gun |
5. | Sep 06, 2004: | Short Song Marathon--Tom, Mr. Sparkle, and Mor fill in
The Rover, Intermission |
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3. | Aug 31, 2005: | Lost and Found [sub]
Going Under |
6. | Sep 06, 2004: | Short Song Marathon - Part 3
Twenty Three Skidoo |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2004-02-15
Reviewed 2004-02-15
Oranger is GREAT local indie-pop, derived from Beatlesque melody and '70s sounds (major 7th chords, tight harmonies).
This is a two-CD set ... Disk 1 is the new Oranger album, 11 great tracks. Disk 2 is a collection of older songs and rarities, excellent stuff that doesn't have that "outtake" sound (well, mostly). These guys are a local treasure.
Some faves:
2- "Hit single," a chugging midtempo beat, melancholy but rocking
4- Gentle psych rock with some cool time-signature twists
8- Parlour pop? Happy, quaint White-Album-like ditty
11- Slow reprise of track 2
13 (disk 2 track 2) - Big dark bassline with comforting lush chords.
14 (disk 2 track 3) - Dreamy, breezy late-'60s pop, great stuff
35 (disk 2 track 24) - Instrumental version of "Suddenly Upsidedown," a song from their previous album
The CD ends with six very short, silly takes of "23 Skidoo."
This is a two-CD set ... Disk 1 is the new Oranger album, 11 great tracks. Disk 2 is a collection of older songs and rarities, excellent stuff that doesn't have that "outtake" sound (well, mostly). These guys are a local treasure.
Some faves:
2- "Hit single," a chugging midtempo beat, melancholy but rocking
4- Gentle psych rock with some cool time-signature twists
8- Parlour pop? Happy, quaint White-Album-like ditty
11- Slow reprise of track 2
13 (disk 2 track 2) - Big dark bassline with comforting lush chords.
14 (disk 2 track 3) - Dreamy, breezy late-'60s pop, great stuff
35 (disk 2 track 24) - Instrumental version of "Suddenly Upsidedown," a song from their previous album
The CD ends with six very short, silly takes of "23 Skidoo."
Track Listing
1. | Cut Off Yer Thumbs | 21. | Yard Sculpture | |||
2. | Going Under | 22. | Space Colony Boogie | |||
3. | Bluest Glass Eye Sea | 23. | The Amazing Life Of... | |||
4. | Shutdown the Sun | 24. | Circle Gets the Square | |||
5. | Tree Bent Gun | 25. | Bleeding Kneecaps | |||
6. | Just a Little Dumb | 26. | Bizarro | |||
7. | Othersider | 27. | Monster | |||
8. | The Writer (H.F.) | 28. | Intermission | |||
9. | Static on Teh High Desert | 29. | Winter Gardener | |||
10. | Sweet Goodbye | 30. | The Rover | |||
11. | Delivered By Compass | 31. | Mike Love not War (Live) | |||
12. | Up Over the Summer Fields | 32. | Sleepwalk | |||
13. | Pleschette Gun | 33. | Manatee Party | |||
14. | Shake Yer Leisure | 34. | Siamese Fingers | |||
15. | Gorilla in a Rucksack | 35. | Sugarpop '66 | |||
16. | Butterfly Magician | 36. | Behold, Mercury! | |||
17. | April Skies | 37. | Outside It's Coming Down | |||
18. | Things I Say | 38. | Spy Tactics | |||
19. | El Cerebro Esta Zumpando | 39. | And It's Alright | |||
20. | Friend to You | 40. | Twenty Three Skidoo |