Chinese Burn

Len Price 3 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 29, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: WICKED COOL RECORD
• ASIN: B000PFU9VA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,229 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roll Over Butthead, September 20, 2005

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db morton (Paris, France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese Burn (Audio CD)

These guys are so much fun and just too damn good to ignore. If you missed the jangling guitars and wicked wit of the second British Invasion of the 60's, e.g. The Who, The Kinks, etc., if you missed the first Punk blitzkrieg of the 70's, or if you're just sick and tired of the same old lame stuff that passes itself off as rock and roll these days, then these guys are your ticket to sanity and salvation. They don't take themselves too seriously, and man o' man can they play. This three-piece band can put entire symphonic orchestras to shame with their enormous sound. Big as the West and electric like neon. Gather your friends, play this recording LOUD, and pandemonium can be yours for 30+ rollicking minutes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Derivative? Yes. Rocks Your Socks Off? OH YEAH!, March 4, 2009

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Alan Hutchins (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chinese Burn (Audio CD)

Let's get this out of the way up front. The Who stole from the Kinks. The Creation stole from the Who. The Jam stole from the Kinks, the Small Faces, the Creation and the Who. The Len Price 3 keeps this tradition going by openly thieving from the Kinks, the Who, the Small Faces, The Jam, and several other UK 60's and 70's guitar-bass-drum, strong-vocal-harmony, frenetically rocking bands.

Not that any of this is a bad thing. Isn't there a saying that goes something like "bad artists copy, great artists steal"? There are no outright cover versions of songs from any of the above mentioned acts on the Len Price 3 debut called "Chinese Burn", but if you listen even halfway closely, you can get strong reminders of some of their influences in the furiously uptempo 15 songs (in just over half an hour) presented here. The lead off song "Christian In The Desert" has the exact guitar-riff-rhythm (but with a one note difference) as the recurring riff that anchors the Kinks' "All Day And All Night". The fifth song, "Last Hotel", sounds sort of like someone chopped up several yards of casette tape containing just the Who song "The Kids Are Alright" and then reassembled the bits in random order and hit play. The song "Amsterdam" sports a chorus that is a virtual replica of the chorus of the Who song "Mary Ann With The Shaky Hands".

This Medway, Kent (near the coast about 30 miles southeast of London, including towns like Chatham, Gilingham, Strood, Rochester) based act carries on the strong garage rock tradition of this area in a highly charged manner. Despite all of the "spot the influences" songs, this collection provides a modern illustration of the way that Rock-n-Roll, which seems to become stagnant or sound emasculated at some point about every decade or so, continues to be reborn in a ferocious new incarnation again and again over the nearly 60 years of its existence. The Len Price 3 clearly owe a strong debt to those forerunners named earlier, but they stand quite ably on their own 6 feet and display a "we're tight and we know it" confidence in cranking out a strong menu of mixed-to-mono, two-minutes-or-less, hard-charging tunes filled with sardonic lyrics, crisp harmonies and get-in-and-get-out urgency. You could sort of say that it's all been done before, but not exactly the way they do it.

This disc and the just-about-as-good 2007 follow up, Rent a Crowd are just what the doctor ordered for jaded rock fans who are on the brink of giving up on current music. Hearing the Len Price 3 tear into their material will provide you a visceral jolt akin to taking a big nose-hit of smelling salts after you've been pummeled in the ring for 8 rounds. It's hard to imagine that someone could hear this and be unmoved by the well-ordered chaos delivered by this on-the-money trio. It's almost enough to restore your faith in the redemptive power of Rock-n-Roll music.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars thank God for Sirius, June 23, 2006

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THE Uncle Todd - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese Burn (Audio CD)

If it wasn't for Sirius satellite radio (Garage Ch. 25) I wouldn't know who these guys are. Plug in, Strap on, and in the words of Al Bundy...LET'S ROCK!