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Hollencomium Music Reviews
By: Richmond Hollen - Music Reviews
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Coming back to the good ol' music reviews after last week's interview can be tough, I know. Luckily this week we are doing two requests from Pacific students, one from the Pacifican's own Mikey Vu and the other remains unknown. If there is something that you would like to have reviewed, like the two this week in the Hollencomium Music Review, please send it to
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Kite Flying Society Love & Seagulls N/A
The first noise coming through your speakers will sound more like the theme to Sesame Street than anything else (completely unrelated to Mikey's crack-smoking characters). They remind me slightly of The Boy Least Likely To with their fun loving, "happy days will never end" pop lyrics like, "All the seagulls in your mind / Always greet you right on time." What impresses me the most about Kite Flying Society is the depth and clarity of their sound for recording the music in their house, which seems to be a growing trend.
Originality: 6.7 Catchiness: 8.7 Personal: 7.2
Portugal. The Man AKA M80 The Wolf Waiter: "You Vultures!"
For those of you who tuned into last week's podcast you know Portugal. The Man. The self-proclaimed "glacially hardened" quintet hails from Alaska and Oregon and has put together quite the album in Waiter: "You Vultures!". They remind me a lot of Thunderbirds Are Now!, but slightly tamer. Where they differ the most from Thunderbirds Are Now! is the mixture of influences that they change and tweak to create their full album, where Thunderbirds Are Now! do not show this musical maturity. If you don't have the album I highly recommend you go out and buy it.
Originality: 7.8 Catchiness: 7.1 Personal: 8.8
Gnarls Barkley Crazy St. Elsewhere
I can't seem to get away from Mr. Danger Mouse, but this time it isn't my fault. This one comes per request of Mikey Vu and is a dangerously catchy soul song. This is yet another DJ Danger Mouse collaboration, this time teaming up with Cee-Lo. The song has been a single for a while, but their full-length album was just released this last week.
The song, while enjoyable, has a fault. It starts off by grabbing your attention with a beautifully scripted opening verse with lines like "even your emotions have an echo in so much space." This first verse is the only lyrically significant piece and this wouldn't stand out as much if the song didn't repeat the chorus and verse structures so much. While the glaring mistake detracts from the overall quality, it does not ruin the song.
Originality: 6.0 Catchiness: 7.9 Personal: 5.3
The Hollencomium Review Podcast Playlist
Track
Artist
Song
Album
1
Kite Flying Society
6000 Shipwrecks
N/A
2
Kite Flying Society
Love & Seagulls
N/A
3
Portugal. The Man
AKA M80 The Wolf
Waiter: "You Vultures!"
4
Gnarls Barkley
Crazy
St. Elsewhere
5
The Cloud Room
Hey Now Now
The Cloud Room
6
Seu Jorge
Carolina
Cru
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Comments:
good music fan Written by Guest on 2006-03-09 05:49:27Where is coldplay? you gotta have coldplay
Written by Guest on 2006-03-09 17:12:52I try to do reviews of bands that most people don't know about. I feel as though almost everyone knows about Coldplay so I don't think they need to be reviewed. That and I was really disappointed with their new album. Thanks for the input and if you know of any bands that people don't really know about that are good please send me an email with the artist, album, and song that you would like reviewed.
Written by Guest on 2006-03-09 19:34:29Unknown != Good. This music isn't really that great.
Written by Guest on 2006-03-09 21:51:24So, according to your logic, Coldplay was not a good band until they got popular?
Written by Guest on 2006-03-09 22:15:15No. My point is that unknown music does not mean that it's good, and unknown music doesn't mean that it's bad...but this music sucks.
Written by Guest on 2006-03-09 23:15:42Obviously people are going to have different tastes in music, which is why I try to include a couple different genres in each week's review. I'm sorry that none of these are songs that you like, but if you would like to share those with others you are welcome to email them to me.
new and good and not-necessarily-popular Written by Guest on 2006-03-14 19:23:35dear good music fan, the point of playing this music is exposure. who decided coldplay was good in the first place?
form a real opinion about this music and be able to express it in a useful way.
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Coming back to the good ol' music reviews after last week's interview can be tough, I know. Luckily this week we are doing two requests from Pacific students, one from the Pacifican's own Mikey Vu and the other remains unknown. If there is something that you would like to have reviewed, like the two this week in the Hollencomium Music Review, please send it to
