2X4 [Limited Edition, Extra tracks]

Guadalcanal Diary | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition, Extra tracks
• Label: Rhino Handmade
• ASIN: B0002MHEEG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,628 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost Flawless, August 5, 2005

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J. P. Leenaarts "Mabrymusic" (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2X4 (Audio CD)

I got turned on to this album when I was about 11 or 12 years old by a friend of the family. The "Diary" came from the same Athens, GA camp that spawned R.E.M., but obviously Stipe and the boys got much further up the food chain. If you're a fan of jangle-pop or just a fan of anything even remotely influenced by the Beatles, this is a true gem. Ironically, they do a great cover of the Fab Four's "And Your Bird Can Sing". Murray Attaway has one of the best voices in rock and for all of the right reasons, I don't think this album will ever truly age.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all-time favorite albums, period., November 4, 2004

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James Poulakos (Decatur, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2X4 (Audio CD)

Reviewers on Amazon of another Guadalcanal Diary album put it best: this reminds us of having a great time in a small club with a steamy hot rockin' band, and 5 stars isn't enough for this. It's a genuine masterpiece, beginning to end. Fans of well-crafted pop songs and experimental rock a la the Beatles Revolver will dig it; fans of rockabilly and psychobilly will dig quite a few tracks on it, too. I got to see them back in the day, at 688 in Atlanta, and I cherish the memory. I've got this one on vinyl and can't wait to get it on CD -- and I usually don't buy CDs of stuff I've already got on vinyl. I've just about worn out the vinyl of this one, though. You've got to hear it to believe it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guadalcanal Diary 2x4, April 24, 2008

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Paul Doyle (Montgomery Village, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2X4 (Audio CD)

I first heard Guadalcanal Diary's "2x4" on a local radio station (99.1 WHFS FM, Bethesda MD) when it first came out in 1987, and I completely flipped over it. I rushed out and got the cassette and pretty much wore it out within 4 months. Couldn't get enough of it. This album had a very agreeable, but other-worldly dream state quality to it - hard to explain - and the neon-like cover art & graphics suited it perfectly.

I never replaced the cassette, and I could never seem to find the CD. Here it is, April 2008, I'm now 49 years old, and all this time I've had this nagging hankering to revisit GD's "2X4", but I had no luck finding it anywhere. Well, last night I finally went online and downloaded Yahoo's MP3 client and bought all the mp3s from "2X4" at .99 cents a pop.

Damn, this is such a great album, and Guadalcanal Diary was such a great (and terribly underrated) band, and I wished they had kept at it. "Litany", "3 AM", "Things Fall Apart", "Get Over It", and "Under The Yoke" sound just as fresh today as they did 21 years ago. I honestly feel that in a small way my life is now a bit closer to being complete, for having Guadalcanal Diary's "2x4" once again.