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Eastern Conference Champions | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 17, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Suretone / Fontana
• ASIN: B000RS0IK2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,258 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Box

2. Noah

3. Some Sorta Light

4. Stutter

5. Single Sedative

6. Yuppy Hipster ****

7. To the Wind

8. Pitch a Fit

9. Gucci No. 3

10. Nice Clean Shirt

11. Rabbit Hole

12. Hollywood....

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, July 17, 2007

By 

E. Carmichael (Roebling, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ameritown (Dig) (Audio CD)

Eastern Conference Champions have successfully blown me away with a phenomenal first album. Having been lucky enough to see these guys many times, as well as owning two of their EPs, the boys from Southampton PA (currently calling LA home) surprised me. The staples were all there, including a totally reworked recording of "Nice Clean Shirt" who knew you could improve that song? As well as some amazing new songs my favorite of which is "Rabbit Hole."

Josh, Greg, and Vern offer a breath of fresh air, and truly allow themselves to come through on the album. The CD has something for everyone. pick up a copy, and look for ECC to come to your town!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great American Rock, August 2, 2007

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Phil (philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ameritown (Dig) (Audio CD)

Eastern Conference Champions are your new favorite band--you just don't know it yet.

Ameritown, the debut LP from Southampton, PA (suburb of Philadelphia) rockers, Eastern Conference Champions is full of niccotine-like, addicting tunes. Basically, these songs rock. Consider it the years most beautiful/gritty American rock album.

With it's epic choruses and breakdowns coupled with stripped down, sometimes delicate verses, these songs will get you singing aloud in the car, no doubt.

Comparisons to coldplay and smashing pumpkins seem to linger around the band, however producer Owen Morris said it best "ECC sounds like no one f*cking else." Outside of Joshua Ostrander's nasal vocals, and a piano, you dont hear any other similarities between the groups. What you do hear is original American rock.

No two songs sound the same on the record and that is clearly evident from opener "the Box" to closer "Hollywood." All of the songs are great, but for me the best are, "Stutter," "To The Wind," "Rabbit Hole" and "the Box."

The only problems I have with the album is that some of the songs fro their EP, did not make the cut. The EP's version of "Nice Clean Shirt" was better and why the band chose the song "Hollywood" over "Springteen" is anybodies guess. Otherwise an amazing album and one that more people than not will be talking about soon enough...

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take a look in the mirror, July 19, 2007

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C. Everly (Wilmington, DE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ameritown (Dig) (Audio CD)

Disillusioned but driven to make "It" better: ECC lays down a thought

provoking, memory jogging assortment of dazzling styles, textures and

functions. These guys have obviously grown up by negotiating the tough

choices; in life, love and routes taken. Each track plays out like a

road weary yet sturdy study in compassion and the elements that define

our human need to be embraced. Angst ridden and warbling, this is

Americana at its finest; A Sign of the Times that brings us back home!

Exceptionally produced and masterfully communicated by this trio, the

true depth of the message moves in and out between the fabric of the

musicianship and lyrics; each one lending support for the other while

painting a picture that resides between the two.

Ameritown speaks to those that have lived and those that have yet to

experience the highs and lows of our society. It is at once a

nostalgic trip and instructional curriculum designed for a 21st

century that insists we listen closely and challenges us to

reflect on the lessons contained within. It's not hard to imagine a

representative cross-section of our culture tuning in to ECC in an

effort to clarify their own individual paths.

Moody, polished, haunting, festive, dusty, melodic ...Ameritown is a

recollection of where we've been and what we've done.

One could argue that what lies ahead is less important, but what is

made clear throughout this brilliant set is that ECC is ALL of

us...everyday!

Embrace it, live it, it's yours...Ameritown.