| Nada Surf / If I Had A Hi-Fi |
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| Album: | If I Had A Hi-Fi | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Nada Surf | Added: | Sep 2010 | |
| Label: | Mardev Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-09-26 | Pull Date: | 2010-11-28 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 28 | Nov 14 | Nov 7 | Oct 31 | Oct 24 | Oct 17 | Oct 10 | Oct 3 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 20, 2012: | Outrun My Gun Bright Side (Soft Pack) | 4. | May 05, 2011: | The Dismemberment of Aimee Light The Agony Of Laffitte (Spoon) | |
| 2. | Feb 10, 2012: | InAcrossAwayFromMe Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode) | 5. | Mar 24, 2011: | Treeswinger Radio The Agony Of Laffitte (Spoon) | |
| 3. | May 19, 2011: | Capture the Flag (In Monster Drag) Love And Anger (Kate Bush) | 6. | Nov 23, 2010: | The Musical Mystery Box o' Fun Bright Side (Soft Pack) |
| Album Review |
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| Trent Kay Reviewed 2010-09-19 | ||
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Mellow, bright indie pop covers from the masters of the genre*. Creamy harmonies, catchy emo melodies, beamy guitars, and fine young indie heart-n-soul. Sweet and earnest, with just a tinge of punk. (There is a word for this kind of music, but I’ll refrain from stating it here.) These guys have an innocence about them that has somehow transcended any slam the post-90s indie snots have ever thrown at them. This is an all-covers album of the band’s 12 fave songs -- they manage to breathe life into songs I love anyway, and truly make them their own. *Don’t know Nada Surf, you say? Sadly, you do. They got ‘known’ with “Popular”, a song that sounds nothing like their other songs. Sometimes, when I listen to it in the context of the record, I envision that some other band -- you know, the same one that recorded the Butthole Surfers’ “Pepper” -- made it instead. RIYL: The Get Up Kids, Death Cab, Teenage Fanclub, Jimmy Eat World, The Stone Roses try: 7, 1, 2, 10 no FCCs *1. bill fox -- moonbeamy electric guitar a la the stone roses. bright, melodic, upbeat, exuberant. fun fact: this guy (bill fox) is pretty much the king of cleveland power pop. *2. depeche mode -- big hollow drums and heavy bass. great harmonies, fast ripply guitar (just like the intro to ‘happy kid’). they actually acapella the ‘ba ba’s at the end. 3. the go-betweens -- wrenching and gushy intro verse. busy boppy chorus (they freaking acapella the violin line!). dark, dig-in bridge. like the best nada surf songs, manages to make an uptempo pop tune sad as hell. 4. arthur russell -- slow acoustic and naked vocals. short, cute. smartly and perfectly ends on the title of the next track. 5. dwight twilley -- starts with looped upcrawl electric. bright, midtempo reachy glam pop. freaking beautiful harmonies. 6. kate bush -- driving/light stick drums, slow-chord piano anchor. overall mellow yet about-to-pop sound. you keep waiting for it to break into rainbows. *7. spoon -- “all i ever asked of you is a copy of garage days and to tell me the truth.” pretty nearly perfect -- boingy drums and kitchenware percussion, laid back chillster groove, borrows the harmonies from the original and makes them 3x as great. turns what is really just a libertines-esque demo into a big fat awesome indie track. this song does exactly what a good cover should -- it sounds like, essentially, the song spoon should have written. i like this so much better than the original. the spoon guys probably do too. 8. coralie clement -- looped electric guitar line. shakers and speedy timekeeper bass. bright, harmony-laden chorus. pretty yet mellow. lyrics in french. 9. moody blues -- ha! big, loud, fast & fuzzy... to start. rip-roaring power chords segue into slowwwed down lilty folk a la ‘pure imagination’. ends as it starts. “i’m looking for someone to change my life.” this song is like the best joke ever if you know the original. dear god. *10. soft pack -- fast happy punky riffy sunshiny highway pop. totally bounceable. “all right oh yeah.” 100% california. 11. mecromina -- heavy minor strings. downtempo, mournful, beautiful, heavy. really thick sound. like spiralling down. lyrics in spanish. 12. the silly pillows -- cute, playful echo-ey waltzer piano. instrumental. fades to reverb. | ||
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