2 Over Ten

The Cuts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 27, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Birdman
• ASIN: B0000996GL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,966 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The Cuts are four twenty-somethings from Oakland, California, who make some of the best garage pop that you'll find today. The Cuts' wild sonic tantrums and lust-scorched anthems are so soaked in Nuggets history it's hard to believe they weren't conceived in the same fertile musical ground that produced bands like the Sonics and ? and the Mysterians. The band blends old-school, psychedelic garage with `70s NYC proto-punk noise (a couple songs are so Television it's crazy) - but these guys make the blend seamless. The guitars come off cheap and messy; the vocals are amped, snotty, and slightly distorted; the keyboards whiz around like some woozy Dennis Hopper drug sequence, and the rhythms switch between jangling so loosely they're gonna slip right out of your speakers and getting wound so tight they're gonna snap. The band released their debut album as a vinyl-only edition on Mark Murman's Rock n' Roll Blitzkrieg Records (watch for Birdman to issue it on CD in 2003) and, though low profile in record stores, it received rave reviews. For their second album The Cuts drove down to Memphis and recorded at Easley Studios with Greg Cartwright (Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Reigning Sound) at the control board. This album promises to be a straight up classic!

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Cuts can cut it, September 29, 2004

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Arcade "Dark Denim Phantom" (Chicaaawgaa!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2 Over Ten (Audio CD)

I also saw these guys live opening for the Black Keys, and I think they were actually pretty good. While they only played a couple of tracks, they were very rythymic and powerful, with energy flowing from the whole band. That's what you get with garage rock and definitely what The Cuts are all about. A couple of songs are a bit slow for me, you know bands believe in having an obligatory couple of slow ballad tracks as well, but if you excell in power punk pop, why not just keep at it right? Overall good stuff, they definitely have potential, I recommend you check them out.

But to the reviewer that said they sucked and that no one cheered for them, is a bit of a surprise. It's hard to imagine they have any taste over there then, whereas over here, in the midwest we loved them and wished their set was longer. To each their own I guess.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Cuts best album gets shafted, August 15, 2007

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Justin A. Main - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2 Over Ten (Audio CD)

Why are there two bad reviews for this album by some guys who haven't even heard it? Second, why would you go see the black keys (about the best live band around) and then come home and write a review of the opening band? If you're interested in this album, read the editorial review, listen to some samples on iTunes, and make your own judgement.

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice sound, December 10, 2004

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Matthew Bialer (New York, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2 Over Ten (Audio CD)

I have heard about this band. And I think they are really good....they evoke garage, Television, 13th Floor Elevators, even the Talking Heads a bit. And just plain, old fashioned rock n roll. There is a lot of freshness and hear here. And they are constantly evolving.