Ear Candy

King's X | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wounded Bird Records
• ASIN: B000JVSWDM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,295 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Train

2. (Thinking and Wondering) What I'm Gonna Do

3. Sometime

4. A Box

5. Looking for Love

6. Mississippi Moon

7. 67

8. Lies in the Sand (The Ballad Of...)

9. Run

10. Fathers

11. American Cheese (Jerry's Pianto)

12. Picture

13. Life Goes By

Editorial Reviews

CD reissue of the 1996 album by Hard Rock trio King's X featuring Ty Tabor, Doug Pinnick and Jerry Gaskill. This album reached #105 on the Billboard Top 200 and #4 on the Contemporary Christian charts. Perhaps their most straightforward album to date, Ear Candy offers a delectable plate of swirling Psychedelic Hard Rock for your listening pleasure. 13 tracks. Wounded Bird. 2007.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite King's X albums!, June 5, 2002

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John Margaritis (Floral Park, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ear Candy (Audio CD)

Strong album from start to finish. The Texas trio hit the mark with this collection of 13 songs; each track is distinct and highly-crafted. One of my favorites is the Beatle-esque 'American Cheese', which features a rare lead vocal by Jerry Gaskill. Also, the hypnotic 'Mississippi Moon' seems to contrast nicely from the rest of the album, and is the first of three great songs which feature Ty Tabor on lead vocal. Some of the more straightforward songs that really shine are 'The Train', 'A Box', 'Looking For Love' and 'Picture'. The disc's final cut, 'Life Going By', has to be one of my favorite Ty Tabor songs; it features very melodic acoustic guitar work and a terrific lead vocal, combined with a nostaglic chorus. Doug Pinnick sings with such great emotion throughout the whole album and his 12-string bass thumps wonderfully on every cut. And as usual the vocal harmonies on this disc are complex and stay with you for days. I've seen these guys live and know that the harmonies are not studio-generated--they can sing their butts off live! Way to go, King's X.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Post-Dogman Exhale, June 18, 2011

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A Blues In Drag (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ear Candy (Audio CD)

In 1994, King's X unleashed their most unrepentantly heavy album to date, Dogman. It was a smouldering pile of angst, frustration and existential doubt, and played like a raw nerve ending set to music. It was an exhilarating venting of demons coming from a band who had, til then, been known for their championing of virtues like faith, hope and love. It could have been called Anger, Frustration and Disillusionment.

Their follow-up to Dogman, 1996's Ear Candy, sounds almost like an exhale by comparison. The band seem resigned to their fate, but in a wistful, philosophical sense rather than a bitter one. The music itself is as sharp as ever and there are some achingly beautiful songs on this album. Pinnick's "lost my faith" confessional "Looking for Love" is one of the most brutally honest things he's ever written. Meanwhile, "Picture"'s ode to forgiveness and reconciliation is surprisingly moving.

Ty gets some gems the mix: "Mississippi Moon" is nothing less than guitar pop perfection and "Life Going By" has all the delicacy and yearning, plangent beauty that makes King's X so much more than a mere hard rock band. Ear Candy is an inspired chapter in the group's story that finds the perennially overlooked band coming to terms with itself.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something For Everyone, January 9, 2011

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Timothy K. Schwader "@impalerspeaks" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ear Candy (Audio CD)

`Ear Candy' marked a significant shift in the King's X sound, leaving the proto-metal progginess of the 1st 4 albums and the riff-heavy attack of `Dogman' behind in favor of a 70s-inspired, Grand Funk Railroad style of psychedelic jam-rock that was at least half a decade before its time. From opener `The Train' to closer `Life Going By', this album presents what is arguably the most honest vision of the band's collective mindset to date. It is fairly stripped down and raw, with effects used to signify emotion rather than showcase out-of-this-world musical ability, and an overall lyrical approach that relies less on POV storytelling and more on cathartic expression. This is the King's X album for those who just can't seem to `get' King's X - and definitely not one to pass over for everyone who `gets' them just fine.