Comets on Fire

Comets on Fire
Alternative Tentacles Records
General | Jul 2003

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2003-08-12
A ball’s out garage band on crank, glue and PCP. The music is simple psyche garage, swampy sometimes, but its all cranked out with crazy distorted vocs run through a delay box. In fact, when they perform live there is one guy who’s job is to just run the knobs on the delay box (which I would bet my life is an old BOSS DM-2 for you gear geeks out there) which becomes a delay/feedback repeat noise instrument in itself, almost usurping the vocals. So everything swirls and blurps and kerrangs and this whole recording is a beautiful mess of craziness. And these freaks are local to boot! Every track on this is guaranteed to give you an acid, nitrous oxide flashback. Play them all!! Note: last track is ~5:00, followed by ~2min of silence then an entire set of “hidden” live recordings that rawk!

1) ultra amped up garage rock with lots o’ noise
2) balls out again, a tad more wanky guit and echoed vocs, super cool epic ending
3) slow dirgey sludge fest
4) (combine with track 5) a tad swampy with a cowbell even, ends cold because it fades into next track which you should play too
5) brief continuation of previous, a boom box recorded acoustic version
6) slow dirty blues
7) the crazy upbeat garage is back with force
8) cranked up a notch: this one borders on punk 2/4, intense
9) slower fucked up swingy, just wrong
10) upbeat rock with some bluesy licks, ends at ~5:00, ~2min of silence then obligatory not-so-“hidden” track: live recordings of rawking ass swingy near swamp, really great stuff

Recent airplay

The Way Down
Scatterbrain RadioJul 17, 2010
Graverobbers
best of orangeasm part iMay 28, 2009
Graverobbers
A2ZJun 05, 2008
Graverobbers
nag champa orangeasmMay 21, 2008
One Foot
Fiction RomanceMar 22, 2007
Lets Take It All
Fiction RomanceMar 15, 2007

Charting

2003-08-25 — 2003-10-27
Week EndingAirplays
Oct 26 1
Oct 19 2
Oct 12 2
Oct 5 3
Sep 28 2
Sep 21 2
Sep 14 1
Sep 7 6

Track listing

1. All I Need
2. Graverobbers
3. One Foot
4. Got a Feelin
5. Rimbaud Blues
6. Lets Take It All
7. The Way Down
8. Comets on Fire
9. Ghost of the Cosmos
10. Days of Vapors