Come Back Special

Garageland | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Flying Nun
• ASIN: B000004BVV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,617 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come Back

2. Shouldn't Matter But It Does

3. Bus Stops

4. What Will You Do?

5. Struck

6. Something's Got A Hold

7. Cut It Out

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Kiwi Pop Universe Starts Here, August 3, 2001

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R. Mix "Funkingroovin" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Come Back Special (Audio CD)

Like many of my all-time favorite albums, this didn't really grab me on the first play, or even the second.

Bothered by that, since I am quickly becoming a Garageland fanatic, I revisited this EP today. And I'm glad I did, because it is at least the equal of their full-length releases, and being an EP, delivers Garageland's unique guitar-driven pop in concentrate form.

From the distinctively New Zealandish pop of "Come Back" and "Bus Stops" to the 'Chronic Town'-era REM of "What Will You Do?" to the distortion-laden "Cut It Out" and the dark, spare "Struck", this EP is a wonder; an aural orgasam of buzzy six-stringed treats.

Anyone needing to feed a serious Kiwi pop habit need look no further. This is intimate, warm and intoxicating stuff--not to be used while operating heavy machinery.

Like their debut album 'Last Exit To Garageland', this is quickly becoming hard-to-find. Interested? Better hurry--it's disappearing fast.