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- Date Released: June 18, 2002
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Action Musik
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Velvet Crush is a great American rock & roll band. They combine loud and ringing guitars, crashing drums, and gruff-yet-sweet vocals to really put some power into power pop. The subtitle of this record is "A Collection of Demos and Outtakes 1990-1996" and it covers a very productive and exciting time in the band's career. The tracks break down as follows: seven demos from the band's masterpiece, Teenage Symphonies to God, two demos from Free Expression, and demo versions of both sides of their debut 7", "If Not True"/"One Thing Two Believe." The rest are outtakes, many of which are from the Heavy Changes sessions. The sound is pretty raw and live but also very similar to the finished versions that appear on the albums. The songs sound more rock than pop as the band rips through some of their best songs, like the sweet "Time Wraps Around You" and the charging My Blank Pages." The outtakes sound as good as anything that made it on the Heavy Changes record, a highlight being their cover of fellow Midwestern band Three Hour Tour's "Be Someone Tonight." Someone new to the band should first check out their original records before getting Melody Freaks, but die-hard Velvet Crush fans will love this album. They may wonder why the band didn't include any information about the origins of the tracks; it seems a rather large oversight to leave off that kind of annotation on a disc that claims to be a historical release. Still, the music is what matters most -- and the music here is first-rate.
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| 01. |  |
Star Trip |
3:28 |  |
| 02. | |
Time Wraps Around You |
4:20 | |
| 03. | |
Hold Me Up |
3:05 | |
| 04. | |
Standing Down |
3:04 | |
| 05. | |
Further Over You |
3:37 | |
| 06. | |
Beside Yourself |
4:50 | |
| 07. | |
Seen Better Days |
4:44 | |
| 08. | |
Turn Down |
2:33 | |
| 09. | |
My Blank Pages |
3:43 | |
| 10. | |
This Life Is Killing Me |
3:01 | |
| 11. | |
Weird Summer |
3:41 | |
| 12. | |
One Thing Two Believe |
3:39 | |
| 13. | |
Reunion Day |
3:32 | |
| 14. | |
The Real One |
3:35 | |
| 15. | |
If Not True |
2:54 | |
| 16. | |
Goin' To My Head |
3:17 | |
| 17. | |
Heaven Knows |
3:11 | |
| 18. | |
Keep On Lingerin' |
2:45 | |
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Credits
- Velvet Crush - Main Performer // Velvet Crush - Layout Design // Mike Denneen - Chamberlin // Mitch Easter - Guitar // Mitch Easter - Engineer // Michael Hausman - Engineer // Phil Hurley - Guitar // Wes Lachot - Piano (Electric) // Ric Menck - Drums // Peter Phillips - Guitar // Paul Chastain - Bass // Paul Chastain - Vocals // Jeff Underhill - Guitar // Dave Gibbs - Harmony Vocals // Jared Kaufman - Layout Design
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