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Something Good already happened to me!!!!

grrlbassist | 02/09/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Baboon is one of the reasons I ever picked up a guitar and started playing music myself...so for that thank you, guys. And I just want to add a note about the review submitted by "cynthiablalock". I just didn't realize that reviewing this Baboon record had ANYTHING at all to do with Steve's personal opinions, albeit your description of him is completely unfounded...that is unless you actually know the guy...which I am convinced from what you wrote about him that you do not. My point is just that if you don't like the record-fine. There are a multitude of folks who do...but this is certainly not the medium to use for bashing him on your "perception" of who he is as a person. You seem very, very confused.

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In the interest of balance...

Michael J. Rudnicki | Dallas, TX | 12/16/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Please disregard Ms. Blalock's vengeful diatribe as I seriously doubt she's even heard this record. I also doubt she's seen us live, because "mediocre" isn't an oft-levied criticism. Maybe "it sucked" or "it was awesome," but nothing so lukewarm as "mediocre." We're all very proud of this record and it has received generally glowing reviews by those who've heard it (whose numbers, unfortunately, haven't been legion). While I don't agree with some of Steve's politics, he's definitely not hateful, pseudo-intellectual, or misogynistic. I'm not sure what relevance Steve's Amazon reviews have to the sound of "Something Good is Going to Happen to You" but, believe it or not, there are varying political perspectives within our group. This is America, baby! Being the son of a '70s Judy-Chicago-print-owning NOW and ERA member, I implore Ms. Blalock to save her cliched, politically correct demonizing for "Anti-Patriarchy 101." I'm sure she'll get an "A" in it."

Well Alright

Nathaniel C. Moffat | Bethesda, MD United States | 06/25/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you had a dime for every time some fool said a band "sounds like Green Day," you'd be so rich you could hire Green Day to play at a party -- just for you and your dumb friends. And pay them with 55-gallon drums full of dimes.



Some recordings, however, really do sound like Green Day, including this one, at least partly. My listening notes indicate "70% Green Day circa Dookie, 30% New Day Rising [by Husker Du]"



That's not a bad thing in my book, but it is a notable departure for a hard-touring North Texas outfit typecast as a "noise" band (Drummer Steven Barnett has been known to terrorize band members and dumbfounded audiences alike with an instrument of his devisal called the Room Evacuator).



This disc will not cause an evacuation of any sort, and it will not make your ears bleed at sane volume levels, but its aggressive, infectiously anthemic pop-punk may have you jumping around on the furniture like you've got no sense. Oh, and a couple of the songs will stick in your head (Alright is the worst offender, but Leave Me Be and Secret Room get hooks into gray matter, too). About that let there be no doubt. You can't get them out - they are a resistant strain of earworm.



The recording is intentionally noisy, processed, and altogether brilliant, using distortion to great musical effect. There is persistent recorded-in-a-stairwell reverb (reminiscent of Radio Free Europe by R.E.M.) that combines with oversaturated shouting to make the "singing" into an instrument itself - think Richard Butler of Psychedelic Furs singing in a hurricane.



Speaking of instruments, there is outlandish stuff down in the mix - xylophones, bells, tambourines (not sure about that one), and who knows what all. You can take the band out of the noise, but you can't take the noise out of the band.



This record should have been a breakout for Baboon, but one must defer to Mencken on that score. If you are a good and decent person, correct this injustice at once. Buy this disc. Well alright. That is all.

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