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The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
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||| Artist Name_____> The Von Bondies |||
||| Album Name______> Pawn Shoppe Heart |||
||| Label___________> Sire |||
||| Genre___________> Rock |||
||| URL_____________> |||
||| Release Date____> 2016-10-21 |||
||| Street Date_____> 2004-03-09 |||
||| Size____________> 271.89mb ||
|| Playtime________> 40:42 ||
|| Encoder_________> FLAC 1.3.1 ||
|| Quality_________> 935 kbps / 44.1khz / 2 channels ||
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| -----------------=--= TRACKLiST =-=------------------- |
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| 1 No Regrets 2:34 |
| 2 Broken Man 2:10 |
| 3 C'mon C'mon 2:15 |
| 4 Tell Me What You See 1:56 |
| 5 Been Swank 2:44 |
| 6 Mairead 5:11 |
| 7 Not That Social 3:01 |
| 8 Crawl Through the Darkness 2:45 |
| 9 The Fever 2:38 |
| 10 Right of Way 3:46 |
| 11 Poison Ivy 2:14 |
| 12 Pawn Shoppe Heart 9:28 |
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| -----------------=--= N O T E S =-=------------------- |
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| The altercation between the Von Bondies' Jason Stollsteimer and |
| the White Stripes' Jack White earned the Von Bondies some |
| literally spectacular publicity -- and simultaneously broke and |
| perpetuated the link between the band and its former friend and |
| mentor. However, the group's Sire debut, Pawn Shoppe Heart, not |
| only lives up to the bigger and brighter spotlight thrown upon |
| them as a result of that incident, it also reveals that the Von |
| Bondies are finding their own voice. Working with producer Jerry |
| Harrison, they sound better on record than they ever have. |
| Previously, Stollsteimer's throaty baritone often sounded muddy |
| and tended to overshadow the band's playing. On Pawn Shoppe Heart, |
| the crisp but not too-slick sound gives Stollsteimer's voice, and |
| the rest of the group's instruments, room to breathe and resonate; |
| the result is an album that helps set the Von Bondies apart from |
| their contemporaries and rocks just as hard as their early work. |
| That the Detroit garage rock mainstays sound more fully formed on |
| an album recorded in San Francisco with one of alt-rock's biggest |
| producers is somewhat ironic, but the results speak for |
| themselves. The excellent, exhilarating single "C'Mon C'Mon" alone |
| justifies the Von Bondies' jump to a major label and the attendant |
| major recording budget: its quick-shifting dynamics, |
| call-and-response vocals, and poppy sheen make it not only the |
| best and most distinctive song the Von Bondies have yet recorded, |
| but one of the best singles of 2004. In fact, "C'Mon C'Mon" is so |
| good that it nearly dwarves the rest of Pawn Shoppe Heart, but the |
| album does have several other nearly-as-good moments. "Not That |
| Social," an icy-hot piece of punk-pop sung by bassist Carrie |
| Smith, capitalizes on the Von Bondies' boy-girl vocal interplay, a |
| trick that also adds some playful complexity to the otherwise |
| primal "The Fever." "No Regrets" borrows T. Rex's stomping glam |
| and gets the album off to an appropriately attention-getting |
| start; "Poison Ivy" is a rush of lust that rescues Pawn Shoppe |
| Heart from a slight slump in its second half. The Von Bondies find |
| Detroit a hard place to escape even in song, and tracks like the |
| in-jokey "Been Swank" (which riffs on the name of the Soledad |
| Brothers' drummer, Ben Swank) and "Broken Man," which describes |
| Stollsteimer and crew as "a broken band from a broken land," tend |
| to pull the group back into the scenesterism that most of the |
| album works so hard to escape. And when the band returns to the |
| swampy, bluesy side of its music, Pawn Shoppe Heart becomes a |
| hit-or-miss affair; tracks like "Right of Way" and "Crawl Through |
| the Darkness" are big on power but relatively small on memorable |
| melodies. On the other hand, the slow-burning "Mairead" doesn't |
| quite justify its five-minute length but does make full use of |
| Stollsteimer's powerful voice, and "Pawn Shoppe Heart" itself -- |
| as well as the thundering cover of "Try a Little Tenderness" |
| hidden at the end of the album -- shows that the band is still in |
| touch with its roots. Ultimately, Pawn Shoppe Heart is a |
| transitional album, offering an imperfect but real and exciting |
| look at where the Von Bondies have been and where they are going. |
| Most importantly for the band, the album shows that the Von |
| Bondies are now able to succeed or fail on their own terms, |
| outside of the context and constraints of Detroit's garage rock |
| scene. |
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| -----------------=--= GREETiNGS =-=------------------- |
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