The Cage

Dirt Poor Robins (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B000UV3W36
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,180 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Prologue

2. Eleanor Rigby

3. The Hollywood Song

4. Tah Dah

5. Great Vacation

6. Masquerade

7. Wallflower

8. Loud Is the World

9. Aquiline (Rise Up0

10. Someone (I Dare You To Love Me)

11. Teach Me How

12. Last Night (I Couldn't Let It Rest)

13. When All Is Said And Done

14. Light In My Darkness

15. Love Again

16. Counting the House

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The Cage" scores big, October 1, 2007

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M. Gidley "mesa fiend" (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cage (MP3 Download)

I actually ran across Dirt Poor Robins while trying to find out who the genius behind the band "No More Kings" was. NMK frontman Pete Mitchell cited Neil Robins as co-author, band mate and producer of those awesome tracks, so I decided to download "The Cage."

The music on "The Cage" is varied in style and there is something that everyone will love(Unless you only like Reggae Death Metal). The ballads are great and the rockers rock like a rocker should. You'll find all sorts of great instrumentation on the album, everything from strings to pianos to guitars of every color. Neil is a masterful guitar player and there is great fret-work all over the CD - the solo on Great Vacation is particularly tasteful (and hooky) and the clean delayed tone on Love Again fits the song perfectly. Rise Up is well done and has a great heavy riff that could hold it's own against Dream Theater or Zakk Wylde or any other band for that matter.

The writing is excellent and the vocals are shared between Neil and Kate Robins (and what might be Pete Mitchell at times). Kate's vocals are strong and remind me of Evanescence a bit. The production is great and each song is nicely complimented by the right instruments, right mix and right effects. The cover of Eleanor Rigby is great and there is a sweet little guitar vamp that comes in right off the top that really makes the song for me.

It's only 9 bucks, give it a try, you'll like it. And you'll like it more on the second listen and more on the third....

3.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to recommend the entire album, December 12, 2011

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Matthew L. Wheeler (Keene, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cage (MP3 Download)

The great standouts for this album are Eleanor Rigby and Great Vacation. The rest feels a little blase, with uninspired music and a talented vocalist that seems to spend far too much time going from whispery, weepy lows to soaring highs (very much like Amy Lee from Evanesence in this respect, as other reviewers have mentioned).

Rise Up, When All is Said And Done and Love Again stick out as songs with a lot of potential or simply strong B-sides, the latter embracing the same sort of fun, upbeat sound and the range of the male vocalist that carries Great Vacation, but ultimately their quality doesn't rise to near the same levels as the two great songs and would only seem to stick out due to the rest of the bland album.

Those five songs alone make for three stars, but it's difficult to recommend going deeper. The band works best when the male vocalist helps weave a more complete sound and they move from trite power rock sounds to more acoustic instruments and I look forward to hearing more from them in this regard.

5.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoying this new find!!!, June 27, 2008

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Cathy_H (slightly north of Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cage (Audio CD)

I discovered this group via Pandora. It was so cool that I bought the CD both for myself and my friend Robin-the-Artist (for obvious reasons).

In my trying to explain the sound to her I landed on "Buffy-esque with a Cirque twist." It fits.