00-toad_the_wet_sprocket-new_constellation-2013.nfo
Artist: Toad The Wet Sprocket
Album: New Constellation
Bitrate: 245kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Abe's Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 83.10 megs
PlayTime: 0h 45min 11sec total
Rip Date: 2013-11-23
Store Date: 2013-10-15
Track List:
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01. New Constellation 3:20
02. California Wasted 3:50
03. The Moment 4:06
04. Rare Bird 4:22
05. I'll Bet On You 3:46
06. Golden Age 4:40
07. Get What You Want 3:19
08. Is There Anyone Out There 3:45
09. Life Is Beautiful 3:22
10. The Eye 4:28
11. Enough 6:13
Release Notes:
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Most people I spoke to responded with three words when they found out 90?s
alterna-pop band Toad the Wet Sprocket had reunited and were releasing a new
Yes. Like many of their brethren, Toad broke up for a number of years before
reuniting in time to capitalize on the recent wave of nostalgia for 90?s music.
Consider this (consider this!). In the last few years, the following bands have
reunited and released new albums or EPs: The Pixies (sans Kim Deal), My Bloody
Valentine, The Spin Doctors, Blink 182, Mazzy Star, Suede, Blur, Limp Bizkit,
The Gin Blossoms, 98 Degrees, The Backstreet Boys, Stone Temple Pilots (both
Toad may not have hit the same heights as several of their fellow alternative
of four), but they managed to compile a deceptively large collection of
memorable songs along the way. If you were a music listener in the 90s, you
probably know (and like) more Toad songs than you think. There are the pop hits
who knows?), the dubious hits that the band used to pad their stats on their
better after a second listen). Funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised over
necessarily a bad thing. After all, Toad (as well as frontman Glen Phillips in
his solo career) seem to prefer the minimalist approach without the bells and
whistles that sometimes accompany a slick studio product. In fact, when the band
first reunited, the first thing they did was re-record their greatest hits (some
would say they produced inferior covers of their back catalog)- a move that was
more about royalties than getting reacquainted with one another.
great start with the title track, which is catchy and fun. The second track,
crowd-pleasers at concerts.
sledgehammer. You wonder if the band looked up a bunch of different metaphors
recorded.
subjects like rape, drug addiction, or kids spying on a whorehouse only things
go badly after one of them breaks his leg, all the while making them sound like
happy pop songs.
However, rather than focus on the depressing side of those topics, the band opts
be as painful sitting through the new songs just to hear the old ones (or
1990s.
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