Tuesday, December 14, 2004
November 17: 3rd Degree - Radio 7
Another CD I picked up at that convention in Vegas a couple of years back. At the time, I could have sworn this band said they were from New York, but from the liner notes in this album, it looks like they're from Denver.
The music on here is pretty good, but it's kind of an evolutionary dead-end, like the super-smart dinosaurs that they think showed up right before the asteroid hit. 3rd Degree takes that super-polished alt-pop sound that SR-71 and Marvelous 3 and a few other bands had hits with in the late '90s and pushes it into an even more polished, poppy direction. The result is kind of Foo Fighters crossed with Matthew Sweet. But by the time this came out, everybody was listening to Nickleback and crap like that. So 3rd Degree never really had much of a chance. According to their website, they've changed their name to God or Julie. Which is a terrible, terrible name.
The music on here is pretty good, but it's kind of an evolutionary dead-end, like the super-smart dinosaurs that they think showed up right before the asteroid hit. 3rd Degree takes that super-polished alt-pop sound that SR-71 and Marvelous 3 and a few other bands had hits with in the late '90s and pushes it into an even more polished, poppy direction. The result is kind of Foo Fighters crossed with Matthew Sweet. But by the time this came out, everybody was listening to Nickleback and crap like that. So 3rd Degree never really had much of a chance. According to their website, they've changed their name to God or Julie. Which is a terrible, terrible name.
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