| Poster Children / No More Songs About Sleep and |
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| Album: | No More Songs About Sleep and | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Poster Children | Added: | Feb 2004 | |
| Label: | Hidden Agenda Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-04-19 | Pull Date: | 2004-06-21 |
| Week Ending: | May 30 | May 23 | May 16 | May 9 | May 2 | Apr 25 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 11, 2005: | Distraction-Limited The Bottle | 4. | May 27, 2004: | Hello Kitten Leader | |
| 2. | Dec 30, 2004: | Fiction Romance - best of 2004! Flag | 5. | May 20, 2004: | Hello Kitten Now It's Gone | |
| 3. | Aug 27, 2004: | Distraction-Limited The Bottle | 6. | May 14, 2004: | Distraction-Limited Sugarfriend |
| Album Review |
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| Murray Reviewed 2004-03-31 | ||
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Expertly-crafted, percussive, high octane guitar rock with intelligent (often political) lyrics and great vocal harmonies on this Chicago-area band's 9th LP. Too subversive to rightly be called pop. Similar in spots to Pixies, Buzzcocks, Wall Of Voodoo, RFTC, and '80s post-grunge Steve Albini projects (which The Poster Children once were) such as Rapeman. Not a single weak song here. Start with 1, 4, 6, 7, 10. => 1. Hits the ground running with machine-gun guitar, then thunderous but oddly lilting drums. Nice, punky call-and-response vocals. 2. A tasty grunge-cum-Bo Diddly shuffle with insinuating, Devo-like vocals. Ends abruptly. (CD has video for this song.) 3. Fast, percussive, and off-balance with Jello-Biafra-like half-spoken vocals. False ending halfway through. "What's that on your breath? It's not crow or humble pie. Smells like revenge." => 4. Fast, high energy. Starts with high-speed monotonic solo guitar, then adds bass, then drums, then old-UK-two-note-siren-style guitar. Song keeps evolving. Surprise ending. 5. Medium tempo but high energy, lots of harmony. Old-style Poster Children. Lots of repetitive tension and release. False ending in middle, then surprise ending. => 6. Slow acoustic guitar with manic male vocals, then full band joins. Aah-ahh female backing vox. Totally Pixies! and that's a good thing. => 7. Wild & aggressive in a grunge-pop sort of way. Futuristic, 1984-esque vocals: "Citizens, you must trust the leader!" 8. Begins with tentative fuzz bass, then gets bouncy with new-wave, melodic guitar and harmony, sing-song vocals. "Yesterday, everything should have changed... for a moment we were one, and now it's gone." 9. Medium fast & nasty. Starts with a brief tone, then drumstick clicks, then kicks in becoming an anthemic, power-grunge lament. => 10. Fast & happy grunge pop with hand-claps and depressing lyrics about alcoholism and ruined lives. Super dance hit. 11. Medium fast, poppy and dynamic. Another props-to-Jello-Biafra number. Spoken verses plus sing-song chorus. But don't trip over those 5/4 measures they throw in during the bridge. 12. Fades in slowly. Medium tempo and minimal, spoken verse (again) and sing-song chorus (again). Reminds me of Wall Of Voodoo this time, but gets minimal and Television-like at the end. Fades out. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Jane | 7. | Leader | |||
| 2. | Western Springs | 8. | Now It's Gone | |||
| 3. | Sugarfriend | 9. | Different & Special Things | |||
| 4. | Flag | 10. | The Bottle | |||
| 5. | Shy | 11. | Hollywood Pt. Ii | |||
| 6. | The Floor | 12. | Midnite Son |