Customer Reviews

Crystal Pistol

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Open your ears and eyes so-called producers !!! This is the biggest band waiting to happen, yet, again overlooked... Buy this CD and your never regret ! Rock is still alive !

This rock n' roll will kill you! From the first snarl of Watch You Bleed to the last desperate scream of No Fun City this disc kicks ass! This angry collection of catchy tunes sticks in your head like a rusty spike. These guys haven't been spoiled by the money that watered down and ruined so many bands...they are living the real rock n' roll life!

Don't know much about this band other than they're from Vancouver, BC and they have the only cool MySpace page I've ever seen. They look pretty goth metal but they're more punk than metal. Like my title says, Crystal Pistol's a lot like Turbonegro or the Hellacopters, which is great in my book. Most of their songs are fast, explosive and short, like the best punk rock.

Best songs: All The Freaks, Live Fast, Rockstar, Shake, Locomotive.

Only beef I have about the record is that it docked at 36 minutes. That would be skimpy even by old school vinyl album standards.

This is on of the best new cd's I've heard in a long time!!! Rock with humor a true rock classic. You can play it all day long and never get tired of it!!!!

Miks voice is raunch, and the riffs are addictive. Amazing songs live and on CD. Best rock album of 2005. I'm not in the band, as the guy below assumes other reviewers are. These guys have a ravenous following in some parts of Canada and Europe - the five star reviews are not a surprise. I don't think any of the guys know how to turn on a computer...

Since we bought this CD last year it gets played everyday, what music should be about, buy buy buy. Brilliant stuff.

what is with the name? Who came first, Velvet Revolver or crystal pistol? Any relation to the sex pistols? or is this a supergroup that combines members from the crystal method and the sex pistols? I will have to check that out, in the meantime this music is nothing to write home about, unless you are still salivating over the Jackyl Cassette you got for a present back in 1994.

This Album kicks ass from start to finish. Long Live Rock and Roll

i had high hopes for this cd. coolest cover i've seen in ages and great name. cant say that i enjoyed one song though. i bet they are awesome live but this recording did not capture that. the only thing that stuck in my head was their name which i love.

Its obvious the band has been writing the other reviews.

Let me say up front I'm not here to trash the band and the album is good enough but its not great. The sound, the playing, its all your standard and passable product. However this band is pretty dated and insincere. It sounds to me like they are putting on a big front, trying to be cool, trying to be Motley Crue. What we end up with is a well produced collection of "heard it all before".

This band did create a buzz for themselves and hats off to them for that. However they wear thin after 3 songs as the "homage" to Motley crue wears thin. From the lyrics to the licks just about everything has been taken from one 80's song or another. The band members are all about 40 and noticably so (I've seen them live, yikes) I guess that explains the 80's over, under and in the middle tones. This band read "The Dirt" then tried to be Motley Crue. However they just arent as cool or real as Motley Crue were in their beginnings.

That said the 80's were fun and this band can be fun for a little while. Nothing really memorable and no emotion whatsoever. A 2006 version of say Tuff, Black and Blue, etc in the 80's. Decent songs but you can predict whats coming next and each song is very formula standard. Nothing got me emotionally hooked on the whole disc. The production is the best part of the album.

Amazon couples this with Kill Chearleader which is a way better album but with poor production. If only Kill Cheerleader got the Crystal Pistol production. Then we'd have something.