Downpayment on Future Glories

Even | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Orange Sky
• ASIN: B0002N4GT6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #496,540 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Time to See

2. Black Umbrella

3. Tell Me How

4. End to End

5. No Surprises

6. Sunshine Comes

7. Peaches and Cream

8. Rock and Roll Save My Life

9. Life Gets in the Way

10. Bowie in My Dreams

11. Shining Star

12. Stupid Dream

13. Getting By

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Australian take on Beatles and Big Star!, February 17, 2005

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D. Sloan (PORTLAND, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Downpayment on Future Glories (Audio CD)

Wow, this one took me by surprise. Thanks to a quick review in The Big Takeover (thanks again, Jack!) I picked up this 2004 release from Even, a compilation of their best moments from 1995 through 2003. I know, hundreds of bands are compared to the luminaries of chiming guitar rock - Beatles, Big Star, Byrds, etc - but this one is truly valid. This is joyous, rhythmic, sing-along great. The lyrics are a cut above the average. A lot of "power pop" gets (understandably) ignored because of trite lyrics or a sameness to the music that after a disc is over you can't remember what you just heard; it leaves no impression on the brain. But this one is different. It's really hard to explain why, but a lot of it has to do with truly memorably hooks and choruses, as well as quite nice singing. But the band's trump card, the one that gets them on my "repeat playlist," is those wonderful guitars just ringing and ringing away with propulsive rhythm that just doesn't let up. Cheer yourself up and check this disc out! If you're a power pop fan, or mid-60's Beatles fan, or just a guitar rock/pop fan, you won't regret it. If you hear it and don't agree, by all means come back to this review afterwards and click on the "this review was not helpful button." I can take it!