Track Listing

1. Comin' Down
2. Superstar Tradesman (Radio Edit) [Edit]
3. Same Jeans
4. Don't Tell Me...
5. Skag Trendy
6. Don
7. Face for the Radio
8. Wasted Little DJs (Single Version) [Version]
9. Grans for Ten
10. Dance into the Night
11. Claudia
12. Street Highs
13. Wasteland
14. Typical Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136292 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Description
2007 debut by the Dundonian four piece, produced by Owen Morris (The Verve/Oasis). The album was recorded in rural Yorkshire in two weeks during May of 2006 and features the singles 'Same Jeans', 'Wasted Little DJs' and 'Superstar Tradesman'. 14 tracks. Columbia.

Amazon.com
With the fury of a few Humble Pies and the forward propulsion of the Fratellis and Libertines, the View can be forgiven for sharing their name with ABC's daytime talk show. The Scottish quartet's a scrappy and needly bunch, opening their debut with "Comin Down," an angular, barking tune that gets its power dually from Kyle Falconer's short, sharp wail and a piercing twin-guitar slash. Those same guitars dish out sweet strumming for "Same Jeans," a danceably jumping paean to night-clubbing, sidewalk musicians, and "dressing down." The View like their guitars transluscent and sunny, as on "The Don," where they go all call-and-response, making a fast-shuffling vibe that brings Falconer from sweet-voiced narration to a scouring shout, as his mates harmonize, increasing the sunniness. Like their countrymen in the Fratellis, the View ought to find that bigger stage to stumble toward. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews

An Antidote To Emo And Nu Metal
Brought to America by the people who gave us The Strokes and The Libertines, Scottish band The View is a quintessential, supercharged British Power Pop outfit specializing in sub-3:00 slices of controlled mania. Already stars on the other side of the ocean thanks to the catchy hits "Superstar Tradesman," "Wasted Little DJs" and the current "Same Jeans" (I've worn the same jeans for four days...), The View wears it's influences on their sleeves and veddy British they are - Oasis, The Clash, Madness, Squeeze and even T. Rex. Yet somehow the impression I kept getting was that of Herman's Hermits on crystal meth. Not that that's a bad thing.

Spurred on by the fantastic work of lead guitarist Pete Reilly, The View is angst-free fun which could bring back pogoing and other frenetic dancefloor gyrations. Songs like "Dance Into The Night," 'Skag Tragedy" and "Don" are almost epileptic fits set to music - and you can't help responding.

And yet it's the shambling, acoustic "Face For The Radio" that sticks in my memory, perhaps because it brings the goings on to a screeching halt halfway through before they hit full speed ahead immediately following. Maybe we all just needed the chance to catch our breath because The View's "Hats Off To The Busker" is one wild ride.

Climb aboard.

Hobbit Rock
The View thrill with this their first album, a breakthrough record in the emerging genre of Hobbit Rock. Oddly proportioned small men often communicating in an unintelligible babble, influences are broad and range from the Libertines, Kings of Leon and 1980's underground Scottish performance artists, the Krankies. If you like your rock to be made by small people with big hairy feet, and to sound satisfyingly similar to lots of other bands - Hats off to the Buskers is an essential purchase.

Is this Megacity 4 revisited?
yes, upon securing this CD I was up for some fast charged Brit-punk, comparisons to the Jam, Clash, etc. And ain't that a rough road to hoe?
To me - this reminds of the great underated UK rock of Megacity4, the vocals and the strummy sprightly guitars all pay homage to MC4. The two killer tracks (Tradesmen & Wasted little DJ's)for the the album foundation and of course were huge hits in England and here too! yeah right, no doubt carry the album. Grantd, there is a glut of music coming from the UK these days, and most of it is worth listening to. A fine debut and undoubtably more to come from these young Scots.