09 July 2007

Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies












My mate said that these were a bunch of old farts, I do not know if that is true but it is bloody good.
Download it because you do not own it.


1. Hold Me Up
2. My Blank Pages
3. Why Not Your Baby
4. Time Wraps Around You
5. Atmosphere
6. #10
7. Faster Days
8. Something's Gotta Give
9. This Life Is Killing Me
10. Weird Summer
11. Star Trip
12. Keep on Lingerin'

This record is filled to the brim with good hearty power-pop goodness. You can purchase this safe in the knowledge that there are no duffers here - it's just solid tracks all around. The opening track "Hold me up" is a killer pop song and has remained rooted in my memory since I heard it way back in 1994. The stand outs for me are the Gene Clark cover ("Why not your baby"), "My blank pages", "Atmosphere" (thankfully not a Russ Abbott cover), "Time wraps around you" (great guitar bridge) and "Faster days". I should add that "This life is killing me" had me pluging in my air guitar and setting the CD on repeat - much to my wife's displeasure! Power-popsters everywhere need to own this record.

Download Here: Teenage Symphonies

1 comment:

thepsychicpilot said...

Digging the site, man, especially some of the singles that are harder to find her inthe U.S. The Velvet Crush guys have backed up Matthew Sweet on nearly all of his records and tours, along with Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd of Television. Matthew Sweet produced several of their albums and wrote a few songs for them. Teenage Symphonies is probably my favorite record of theirs, but they are all worth picking up. Good stuff.