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Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World
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Track Listing
- Bread
- High Tide In Alaska
- Back To Mimsey
- Answers
- Crossings
- Tangled
- Mr. President
- Lower G.I. Bleed
- Runner
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #157398 in Music
- Released on: 1996-05-03
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
This Album Is the tops!
This album is amazing, it is pure emotion and the singing is extra good. Tangled and Hide tide in alaska are the best songs if you ask me. i do agree with the one person who wrote a review, however, songs such as Mr. President are not very good but this is still a dynemite album.
Essential "Emo"
This CD, along with "End on End" by Rites of Spring and "Analphabetapolothology" by Cap'n Jazz, composes what I like to call the Holy Trinity of Emo.
Native Nod best exemplifies the genre during it's middle period. Arpeggiated guitars, shifting tempos and dynamics, driving rhythms, and frantic vocals. You couldn't ask for more.
Standouts include "Bread", "High Tide in Alaska", "Tangled" (If you listen closely during the break, you can hear lead singer Chris Leo verge on tears), and "Lower GI Bleed".
The only thing that prevents this from earning a perfect score are the tracks "Mr. President" and "Runner". The former is just plain bad (I know it's one of their first recordings but by anyone's standards, it sucks), and the latter is a bore.
An Excellent Album
This album is just a compilation of all of the songs that Native Nod ever had as a band, and for the most part, it is astounding. This band has frequently shifting guitar melodies, and driving, but not abrasive, drum beats.
I'd say that as a very early band, these songs are stripped of almost everything except their emotional power. The singer's voice is sometimes sung, and sometimes a powerfully frantic wail. Often times he speaks instead of singing which, I think, gives the album a feel of a poetry reading, especially since the lyrics are based so much on personal feeling. This cd also contains the epic song "Tangled" which goes through various tempo/mood changes in its six minutes. It's probably also one of the most dramatic songs I've heard to date. All in all, the majority of these songs are examples of fine writing, and the listener feels exactly what the band wants them to feel.
