Customer Reviews

Coming Up

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Seriously... now! Right now! This album is a must for any music lover. I dont no who to compare them to, maybe guns'n'roses, Jane's addiction, queens of the stone age, REM, and.... well any band you like (they are so versitile) i think there was something I ment to say, eemmmm, oh yeh, BUY THE ALBUM!
go to www.freeparkingtheband.com and check out a couple of tracks for yourself, you'll see what I mean, cant recommend them highly enough. Enjoy.

Well if theres one thing I cant stand its a load of ponsed up toss, which thank God you dont get with this CD.Long story short a friend of a friend of a distant aquaintance mentioned the band and purely by the fact I remembered the name I took a chance and gave it a whirl. Right from the off you get in your face production, a tight groove and slap it if you like it lyrics. The genre twists and turns and you certainly take a journey or two throughout the record,(some good some bad) from funkadelic grooves to folky acoustic ballads, bar room blues to classic rock but in the final track (excluding the somewhat out of place Bonus track)Another Day you get your admission fee back with interest.
If you like it gift wrapped and disposable go elsewhere
if you like it real....

Didn't know what to expect here, any band that has an interest in Submarines has got to be a worry. Still no need to be cautious this time the first track kicks in like the drugs squad at dawn and proceeds to lay down a fat funky in your face groove. Next up is more of the same in the way of Outta Sight, all be it with a dash of seventies porn. Third track is a change of direction with Let You Go, a nice and simple acoustic ballad leading to the grandiose Hey Hey Hey, did I detect a bit of a Skynyrd influence there (oops showing my age). Track five is back to the drugs squad before another acoustic ballad with more than a hint of the Stones, pianos, 12 strings and girly backing to boot. Sleaze City is our next stop as B Blues does exactly what it says on the tin. Finally we arrive at Another Day, at seven minutes thirty its not short but it is good, a class ballad that builds to a rip roaring climax. Overall not a bad first effort at all and I`m certainly looking forward to seeing these boys live....© 2003 The Sound

Free Parking's debut album Coming Up produced by Blue Banana Music is saturated with driving groove, it sounds complete and exciting and is wasted on the home stereo unless you fancy bopping up and down all on your own. But halt for track three takes on a whole new dimension, a country ballad that is so distinct from the previous track that it leaves you wondering whether this is the same band...certainly some light and shade in action here. Track 4 has the panache of a sexy eighties film music, sounds out of its time slightly but then track five just slides back into groovy funk like you have never been away...what you trying to do to us guys? This is ace, but musically schizophrenic, but in a cool way...erm yeah, harmonicas, funk guitar, piano, one minute I'm sat on a bundle of hay, the next I'm all funked up in a club. This album certainly keeps you on your toes...The Buz