(2006) spectacular debut that is truly distinctive

Track Listing

1. Panther Dash
2. Ladyflash
3. Feelgood By Numbers
4. The Power Is On
5. Get It Together
6. We Just Won't Be Defeated
7. Junior Kickstart
8. Air Raid GTR
9. Bottle Rocket
10. Friendship Update
11. Hold Yr Terror Close
12. Huddle Formation
13. Everyone's A VIP To Someone

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41285 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Includes two bonus tracks: We Just Won't Be Defeated and Hold Yr Terror Close.

Album Description
European version includes a bonus disc which includes 5 live tracks from SXSW, Texas & 2 new tracks. Memphis Industries. 2005.

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Customer Reviews

Not bad, if you like this kind of thing
I ordered this CD after watching a preview for the upcoming PS3 video game, "LittleBigPlanet". I liked the track 'Get it Together' that was used as the backround music for several trailers, so I wanted to check out more music from the same artist. Overall, I was fairly impressed, they have a unique marching band/jazz/rock sound that I've never really heard before. Overall, the CD is a little too 'peppy' for my tastes, but I did find myself humming the tunes every now and than and popping the CD into the player more often than I thought I would. Would be pretty good as backround party music, or for kids.

A little too much treble
I love the energy of the songs on this album, but I must criticize the mix. There is just too much treble, making this album painful to listen to on headphones. For this reason alone I am docking 1 star from an otherwise 5-star album. I hope that on their next album they can afford to hire a better studio and engineer.

Five Reasons Why I Didn't Like This Album
1. In high-school, I used to play in the marching band. Although the furtive pleasures to be found in the dark corners of a band bus still make me smile, I never found the football half-time shows that we played every autumn to be anything short of annoying. "Is this music anyone really wants to hear?" I wondered.

2. I am a teacher, and although I love my kids, they are also my job. The age groups that I've taught have run the gamut from five years old to fifty, and I've learned one very important lesson about myself. If I don't have to listen to prepubescent girls clapping their hands and chanting inanities about who's "number one," then I'm happy.

3. I love the poor little guy, but because he is a tragic figure (no matter how you look at it), a sad and bald little Sisyphus, Charlie Brown's theme song always (and I mean always) depresses me. Likewise with the theme song to "The Little House on the Prairie," although I can't as easily explain that one.

4. Like most people, I really DON'T want to go to your niece's piano recital.

5. In addition to containing all of the above elements, I found this album to be far too forced for me. If you want unrelenting rambunctiousness and corn-fed cheeriness, I won't think less of you for picking this album up, but I found it too much, the grating chaos of a musical garbage disposal. I don't mind a record trying to make me happy, but I prefer it to be tonally persuasive and compositionally compelling, rather than attempting to make its point through sheer exuberance. "The Go! Team" may have a lot of fans, but I'm skipping this half-time show.