Dust Bunnies [Original recording reissued]

Bettie Serveert | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Matador Records
• ASIN: B00000JHAQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #368,702 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock pop, November 24, 1999

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Todd Scott (Royal Oak, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dust Bunnies (Audio CD)

I feel this is their most accessible CD. The songs have more hooks without losing the standard Bettie hard edge. Carol's voice is more varied than on previous albums. I bought this album shortly after seeing the band in concert. It was perhaps the first time I've heard a band's new material for the first time and enjoyed it as much as the older, classic material that I knew by heart.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album never fails to make me smile..., March 8, 2001

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jenefur (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dust Bunnies (Audio CD)

...from the beginning to the end, this record never fails to make me smile, and it is definitely worth checking out. it's just a really good rock record, and those are getting harder and harder to find these days.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Under the Bed, May 6, 2000

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Bruce Boehrer (Tallahassee, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dust Bunnies (Audio CD)

Bettie Serveert is perhaps the most underrated of the bands recruited in the early nineties by the much-touted Matador label. They've been repeatedly drubbed by critics for not being Liz Phair or Pavement, and this is a shame, for their work as a whole greatly surpasses the former's and--within its three-disc compass--equals the latter's. Here they're at their last and best. To focus on the title song alone: Carol van Dijk's lyrics to "Dust Bunny"--about a child hiding under the bed--are easily understood as metaphor (as van Dijk says on another album, "sometimes life/ makes you feel so scared"). The song's arrangement (vocals and muffled electric guitar) stands in stark contrast to those of the rest of the album, accentuating the eery isolation that the song is all about. Peter Visser's guitar-work, with its sixteenth-note patterns, works wonderful counterpart to van Dijk's vocals, suggesting the relentless mental activity that underlies the near-autism of the song's subject. As for overall structure: it would have been easy to drag this song out far too long, but the band knew better than that. At just over two minutes, "Dust Bunny" is a masterpiece in little, a fitting swan song for one of nineties-alt-rock's uncelebrated heroes. This song has haunted me for three years now, and it will assuredly do so for years to come.