Track Listing

1. Better Safe Than Safari
2. Eat This City
3. 198090
4. (Aquatic Cupid's) Harpoons of Love
5. Enough About Me, Let's Talk About Me
6. To: Skulls
7. From: Skulls
8. Bodies Adjust
9. This World Is Made of Paper...Held Together by a Stapler
10. Cobra Feet

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185363 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-22
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

To contradict the earlier reviewers...
While TAN don't have that supposed same energy as their their earlier works, they finally took the time to actually craft some tunes. You want that spastic energy? See em live. The Allen brothers don't dissapoint. And thinking Ryan's (the lead singer) vox got whinier and higher... it hasn't changed much in ten years... I went to HS with the guy. If anything, it's lowered.

But, great work by TAN!. I'm looking forward to seeing who the new drummer will be now that Mike Durgan has left the band. The replacement for longtime member, Marty Smith (on bass) seems to be really in tune with the high energy/impact show TAN puts on.

Thunderbirds Are Tamed down
I have to agree with Johnny Panic. Decent album and all, but just compared to the early stuff, it's not as good. Good song writing, but the energy and craziness is just tamed down a lot from TANs earlier efforts. Anyone who has seen them from their early shows up until now I think would have to agree that it is not the same as it was. I'm not saying that bands should be expected to stay the same, if they did they would get boring, but when spastic energy was a big part of what turned you on to a band, it's just not the same when that energy is gone. Worth checking out, but if suggest you start out with "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief"

(Cries)
Contrary to what the first reviewer believes, unfortunately this amazing band has completely changed their genre.

If you listen to their older album, "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief," you will bear witness to some of the best synth-driven punk and dance songs you will ever hear. With cracking, thick, sassy vocals, sputtering out lyrics like "Who cares what the mothers and f*ckers'll thing? Imma dance." With whirling, bending synth, layered over excellent drumming, rocking guitars, and amazing basslines, it was one of the best albums that I have ever purchased in my life.

However, I don't know what happened, but this band has entirely changed. To me this sounds like post-second wave emo. It actually sounds, to me, very much like The Anniversary. The vocalist has made his voice higher, clearer, and whinier, and it makes me sad to think that a band I once loved has decided to undergo such a transformation.

I gave the album three stars, because it isn't necessarily bad music, but the older CDs were much much better.