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Reviews of "Midwest Coast"

Bruce Brodeen, Not Lame Recordings review, Fall, 2000

A crawling journey of Plimsouls, The Beat-inspired pub power-pop and Great Buildings sounding guitar slashings. ÊFeaturing the talents of Brad Elvis on drums . . . Very Highly Recommended!


MIDWEST COAST (2000)

  1. It's Getting Time To Be Time (to get over you) -- Mp3 HERE!
  2. Yeah, You Know
  3. Breaking up Like a Band
  4. Big Wheels -- Mp3 HERE!
  5. Someday
  6. Laurie Ann
  7. She's Out Again
  8. Another Long Day
  9. All Over Again
  10. Midwest Coast

 


TALL, DARK, AND HAS-BEEN (1998)

  1. Looks
  2. Doing Without
  3. From You
  4. Lisa's Lies Tall, Dark and Has Been
  5. Confide-- Mp3 HERE!
  6. Mr. Cellophane
  7. Not Bad Enough (to be true)
  8. The Same Old Me
  9. Everyone Else
  10. Waiting To See You Smile
  11. Look at You
Reviews of "Tall, Dark, and Has Been"

Bruce Brodeen, Not Lame Recordings review, Fall, 1998

. . . One of the cleverest titles of a CD I've encountered. . . Scrunching together truly inspired "Let It Be"-era Replacements pop focus. . . and the new wavy charm of The Beat, The Moberlys and The Flashcubes using heaps of 12 string Rickenbackers to color the straight forward pure pop . . . adding the OH so familiar ring that makes pop ears take notice! This U.S. mod trio wear their Rickenbackers proudly and bash out fine melodic gems that are short and sweet like the old Mod classics but are distinctly American. This is proof that Mod is Power Pop masquerading under a different name . . . Very Highly Recommended!!


Terry Hermon, Bucket Full Of Brains (London) review, Feb. 1999

Chicago seems to be the place for great (but unsung) pop trios . . . With the dual guitar and vocals of Glenn Wall and Lou Hallwas and Sean O'Malley on drums, they play chargin', rootsy, good time pop 'n roll . . . Wall writes strong songs. All ringing guitars, rolling drums and smart as hell lyrics . . . It really is a very classy little record.

 

Terrence Flamm, The Illinois Entertainer, December, 1998

. . .Tall, Dark and Has Been is almost evenly divided between wistful ballads and more energetic songs . . . If the Disappointments continue to produce albums that are as much fun as Tall Dark And Has Been, they might have a hard time finding things to be disappointed about.


Richard Milne, WXRT Chicago

"...Good song writing..." underlies "...the jingly-jangly sound of the Disappointments."

 
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