Easy Listening

Cobra Verde | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Muscle Tone
• ASIN: B00008ZHT2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,084 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From Muscletone Records and straight outta Cleveland...smart and funny lyrics, loud guitars, huge egos and tight pants - a recipe for disaster! Featuring guest guitar work by J. Mascis. 11 tracks of glammed-up sexual obsession & indie rock glitter. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Real Rock, September 9, 2003

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Lars Murray "Loudon Fast" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Listening (Audio CD)

This is the kind of release that you don't see much anymore. It's like a Kinks, or Stones, or Who, or even Replacements record, with Midwestern heavy rock set next to more thoughtful stuff. Great tunes straight through from the rollicking opener to the somber end.

What sets it apart from nouveau garage is that it's not willfully dumb (Hives, Sahara Hotnights) or conceptually self-conscious (the White Stripes, the Strokes, the Mooney Suzuki).

A perfect companion to that other recent piece of Clevelandiana, "American Splendor." And no, I've never even set foot in Cleveland.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner From Cobra Verde, September 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Listening (Audio CD)

Easy Listening is another winner from Cobra Verde. This band gets "it". What's "it"? I haven't the foggiest idea. But you know "it" when you hear "it" and "it" is here, (as it is on all the other CV albums and most of J.P.'s Death of Samantha" stuff as well). This Lp takes the best "glam" parts of their "Nightlife" Lp and mixes it with the harder rock crunch of their earlier releases, (Especially "Vive Le Muerte"). Big rock guitars, melody, hooks, lyrically astute...Easy Listening is a can't miss.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A modern classic!!, May 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Listening (Audio CD)

I usually don't write reviews, but this CD is so great I have to. I bought it up after reading about the band in Blender.I had not listened to them before ... and now I'm so glad I did! This CD is an instant classic, a brilliant mixing of glittery pop, post-punk and new wave. The lyrics, especially, are amazing (where else will you hear existentially poetic lines like "When you are down/I will look up to you" or twisted love lyrics like "Was it the tear gas, was it the perfume/That killed my senses when you crashed into the room?"). It's deep, but not too heavy. The songs are irresistibley catchy, especially "Riot Industry" and "My Name is Nobody." I can't get them out of my head - or CD player.