Wednesday, July 07, 2004
July 2: Various Artists - Another Year on the Streets, Vol. 3
This is Vagrant Records' annual summer compilation of unreleased tracks from their bands. I bought it at Best Buy for $6, mostly because it comes with a DVD with like 20 videos on it (none of which are very good, by the way). It's a little weird how much all the Vagrant bands sound like each other. I mean, Down to Earth Approach have the first track, followed by Hot Rod Circuit, and those bands could have the same lead singer. Seriously. Alkaline Trio does do a nice Psychedelic Furs cover, but then From Autumn to Ashes do an absolutely horrible cover of Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings."
The only redeeming moments on the CD come at the end, with an acoustic song from the New Amsterdams (a Get Up Kids side project), a new song from Paul Westerberg that's very, very good, and an unreleased song from the Get Up Kids. The GUKs' song sounds a lot like it came off their third album, Eudora, which is probably why it was left off their fourth album and stuck on this thing instead. Also, you get a Rocket from the Crypt song called "Flight of the Hobo." Now that's worth $6 right there, isn't it?
The only redeeming moments on the CD come at the end, with an acoustic song from the New Amsterdams (a Get Up Kids side project), a new song from Paul Westerberg that's very, very good, and an unreleased song from the Get Up Kids. The GUKs' song sounds a lot like it came off their third album, Eudora, which is probably why it was left off their fourth album and stuck on this thing instead. Also, you get a Rocket from the Crypt song called "Flight of the Hobo." Now that's worth $6 right there, isn't it?
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