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Music CD - The Fratellis: Costello Music
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Music CD: Costello Music
Artist: The Fratellis
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $6.16
Your Save: $ 3.82 ( 38% )
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Manufacturer: Cherry Tree
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Tracks:
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1. Henrietta
2. Flathead
3. Whistle For The Choir
4. Chelsea Dagger
5. Gutterati?, The
6. For The Girl
7. Doginabag
8. Creepin Up The Backstairs
9. Vince The Lovable Stoner
10. Everybody Knows You Cried Last Night
11. Baby Fratelli
12. Got Ma Nuts From A Hippy
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517246751
Label: Cherry Tree
Manufacturer: Cherry Tree
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Cherry Tree
Release Date: 2007-03-13
Studio: Cherry Tree
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Un-pretentious, balls out fun!!!
Comment: These guys sound like they had as much fun making this CD as I'm having listening to it. There's nothing too precious or trendy, just some good old fashioned rock-n-roll done with exactly the right attitude. PS:Love the jacket art!
Customer Rating:
Summary: DRIVEL
Comment: You people are all nuts... I am selling this to SPUN if they'll even have it. This band takes a good song base and destroys it everytime with either a la,la la la or a change that just doesn't go anywhere. I don't doubt they can play their instruments, I just think that perhaps they should change places and try again.
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Summary: Joy and happiness
Comment: I've had this CD for several months now and am still happily listening. No matter how often I hear it, it never fails to lift my mood, entices me to sing along, tap my hands and feet, shake my booty and grin like an idiot.
My teens, who are into rock and grindcore, absolutely love and dance with me in the car when I play the album.
The Fratellis transcend all ages and music taste. Enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Take it back, Take it forward!
Comment: I'm not often ever moved enough to write up a review on a new artist because being a child of the 80's, and usually stuck there, I too often snub new artists as rip offs from prior bands. Too many new bands lack originality, or just flat out lack talent. The problem these days with music is that a cd is released with one or two really good songs and the rest with filler. God, I miss the days when I'd buy a cd and it was brilliant from beginning to end.
Finally, alas, a new band that has really come through 100%. Originality? I'd have to say yes, sure there are many influences but the Fratellis have somehow crafted their own style. And what's present here that is usually missing these days? EXCELLENT MELODIES! This is such fun music to blare in the car and sing aloud to. Another incredible feat is that each song stands on its own. With each track, it's like a new story different than the one prior to it. How drab it is to listen to a cd and feel as if you just listened to one long boring track. Definitely not the case with Costello Music.
I've seen in other reviews this band being compared to others...in my opinion, they have a lot more going for them. Any band that can come up with truly catchy melodies these days are a true gem. A flash of the late 70's punk era, mixed with a splash of the Clash and Madness with some odd musical dashes of the 50's. What a mixed feel it is, but really a nice one. I guess that's what makes it sound fresh, new and original. Common ingredients but an entire new outcome.
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Summary: Costello Music
Comment: The Fratellis-Costello Music **** 1/2
Costello Music couldn't be a more perfect title for The Fratellis 2007 album. To sum up this review in one sentence it is the album Elvis Costello and The Attractions would have made after This Years Model had they not had a complete artistic epiphany. Fresh on the coattails of Britains best band to come along in years, Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellis followed their formula of nice changly guitars with Costello inspired rythms and lyrics with a Oasis sincibility, and boy did it work. Many are calling them the best band to come along in years, a title that all the other before mentioned bands were given in their time.
'Henrietta' starts off the album at full speed setting the tone for the ride to come. 'Flathead' is next. Used in the classic IPOD commercials where the siloute of the girls dance. A great song, very new wave meets british invasion. Think 'One Thing Leads To Another' with 'Happy Together' by The Turtles. 'Chelsea Dagger' is perhaps the most Costello sounding track of them all. It would have easily fit on his This Years Model album. Great lyrical imagry and attitude. The driving back beat makes the track kick. 'Everybody Knows You Cried Last Night' and 'Vince The Loveable Stoner' are slower but none the less powerful or great. 'Whistle For The Choir' is the stand out track on the album simply because it sounds nothing like any of the other songs on the album. More mellow then the rest, and fantasticaly written lyricaly and melody wise, the song is like and m&m, as cheesey as it sounds it's melt in your mouth good. But don't be fooled by the abundance of ballads this albums has some searious rock n' roll like 'The Gutterati?' the guitar heavy 'For The Girl' which spons the fantastic line "she was into the stones/ when I was into the roses," and the killer 'Baby Fratelli.' This album truly has something for everyone.
Costello Music is an album of amazing songs from start to finish complete with driving rock beats, poetic lyrics, and the Beatle-esq pop feel. All fans of rock, in any form will find something here that they like. This is a great album thru and thru as Keith Richards would say.
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Editorial Reviews:
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There's nothing terribly complicated about the Fratellis' debut album, Costello Music, but that's by no means a criticism. Rather than inject their songs with complex chords, or steep their lyrics with their political and social agendas, this Glasgow trio have instead focussed on writing 13 songs that are pure, unabashed entertainment. And it's a pace--and an attitude--that doesn't let up, from the jumpy opening bars of "Henrietta" to the groupie-reminiscing of "Ole Black'n'Blue Eyes". In many ways, Costello Music sounds like a return to the hedonistic rush of early 1990s Britpop, with its exhilarating guitar riffs and arrogant swagger--"Chelsea Dagger" somehow applies the attitude of early Oasis to the pop catchiness of Great Escape-era Blur. But the Fratellis also know their history: the ska-punk of "Cuntry Boys & City Girls" and "For the Girl" has the Fratellis sounding like the cheeky offspring of the Clash, or a less-irritating Madness. But all this analysis kind of misses the point of Costello Music: this is music for dancing, not for contemplation. It's loud, fast and in-your-face, exactly what you'd expect from three young men with guitars. --Ted Kord
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