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Face To Face: Shoot The Moon

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If you watch the Ramones documentary End Of The Century you'll hear Rob Zombie comment on how the Ramones were a band that were "always there." They did their brand of music for so long, and so often, that you got used to seeing their name on the list of shows coming soon to your town, and once they called it quits you realized how much you kinda liked having them around. Face To Face long ago stopped getting any press, the kids all moved on, even the ones raised on that Epitaph/Fat glossy skatepunk sound, but Face To Face were always there, always consistent, always making good music.

As for this compilation, it's always interesting when a band anthologizes themselves which time periods they choose to play up and which to ignore. In this case, they did pretty well. The first 5 tracks (and technically track 15) are from their first release Don't Turn Away, which is basically a classic of the era, made at a time when albums like that weren't a dime a dozen. Tracks 6-9 are from Big Choice, great album, bad cover. Tracks 10-14 are from their self-titled album, likely their best, definitely their highest-selling, and a remarkable feat considering the general trends were moving away from music like this at the time. Tracks 16 & 17 are from Reactionary, novel at the time for letting fans choose the tracks for the album, good that they included Disappointed as it's a highly underrated F2F song. Tracks 18 & 19 are from their last proper album, also one of their best. The last 2 are technically new, a new track (NOT a Jethro Tull cover!) and a live Disconnected from their farewell tour (which i was fortunate enough to catch.)

The keen-eyed fan may notice NOT ONE SINGLE TRACK from Ignorance Is Bliss. Some fans regard it as a great out-of-character move from a band known to churn out a lifetime of same-sounding stuff (Bad Religion gets accused of such also) others call it Trever's attempt to cash in on the emo fad that was all the rage at the time. Either way you look at it, NOTHING is here from that album, so take that for what you will.

So they've rounded up a good sampling of the usual suspects, some live stuff for flavor, and pile on the songs so you get value. I'd expect nothing less from Face To Face. It was a great career, they helped define American punk in the 90's and brought it to a mass audience. One band that really did Walk The Walk.

If any band deserves an essential collection, it's Face to Face. They were punk rock pioneers who paved the way for many punk bands out there now. 21 tracks spanning their 12 year career all in chronological order (so you can hear their progression as the years went on, the tracks don't bounce around like other hits collections). Plus, they added a 2 bonus tracks, one studio track and one live track both recorded in 2004, the year they hung it up.

The liner notes are amazing as well. An introduction written by Trever Keith and notes from each band member on each track, I found, very interesting and informative. I have followed this band for many, many years and I learned a lot by the notes.

Whether you are like myself and own every Face to Face record or not, this CD is a must have. Vagrant, Antagonist Records and Trever Keith put together an amazing collection. Face to Face lives on....

Face To Face is one of the greatest punk bands ever. The album is a masterpiece of punk music, songs ranging from 1991 through 2003. Anyone that likes punk or thinking about listening to punk, pick up this album. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Face To Face and their music will always live on and I hope generations to come, will enjoy them as much as I do.

Everyone should get this DVD. Its their last release ever as a band. The review pretty much says all that is on there except for the track listing for the show. Here it is:

01 You've Done Nothing
02 Big Choice
03 Struggle
04 Bill of Goods
05 What's in a Name?
06 Disconnected
07 I Won't Lie Down
08 Disappointed
09 I'm Trying
10 Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
11 Pastel
12 You Could've Had Everything
13 I Want
14 Blind
15 Complicated
16 Nothing New
17 Walk the Walk
18 A-OK
19 Ordinary
20 1,000 X
21 Bikeage
22 It's Not Over

Great performance, setlist, camera angles, production. Buy It Now!

All true Face to Face fans have already bought this collection if they know it exists, and if they find out about it, they are guaranteed to buy it. For those that are not so hardcore in their love of Face to Face, there are still a couple reasons to pick this collection up.

Firstly, if you consider yourself an encyclopedia of punk music or music in general, you simply must buy this DVD. It is a sophistocated look at the story of Face to Face from start to finish, which spends quite a long time on the origins and not quite enough time on the latter half of their career, and it offers a rags to "riches" (the band never had a gold record) story of which most aspiring bands can relate.

Secondly, the DVD is a great value. If you're a minor Face to Face fan and you just want to see a complete live show by them on their farewell tour that screams (not literally) energy and excitement and think it would be cool if you could learn a little bit more about the band as an extra, then this is excellent for you. Once you watch the final live show, you will almost certainly want to watch the documentary, and then the live show will mean just that much more to you afterward. Even better, you can go back and watch all of their music videos whenever you feel like, though there are few that will ever know why Face to Face decided to make a music video for Debt rather than something like Pastel or Ordinary.

Face to Face is arguably the greatest band that no one has ever heard before, but there are six main albums, a covers album, and one live album around to firmly establish their legacy for the generations to come.

Wow. I remember seeing Face To Face's last ever show in New York City a few years ago and feeling genuinely sad when it was over. In addition to being one of my personal favorites, Face To Face could pull off what so many bands can't - the live show. And they were so f'ing good! Well, thankfully the last show was documented .. great set-list, incredible performance, perfect sound, and quality production. A perfect book-end to a fantastic career and a must have for punk fans. While the "documentary" veers a little into "for fans only" territory, it's well done and provides a peek behind the scenes of a band that deserved so much more than they got. Buy this today!

This DVD took FOREVER to be released but it was well worth the wait. The quality is top notch and they couldn't have done a better job. The final show along with a 75 minute story of the band and all their music videos is the perfect tribute. Any Face to Face fan needs this DVD in honor of the best punk rock band of all time.

Great quality show (last show), great setlist for the last show, interviews with all members, documentary with all new footage that wasn't on the first home video, all music videos. Great farewell to one of the best bands ever. Yup.

I have to start off by saying i heard Face to Face YEARS and YEARS ago on some comp cd, when i first got into hardcore and punk, and i just didn't dig the dudes voice. It was too whiny, and i was WAY too into more yelling type stuff.... So i basically filed this band under "ehhhhh" and never checked em out further - which ive done with A LOT of bands and come to find out years later that they, in fact, were awesome. Which is what ive done with FACE TO FACE. They are amazing, and i wish i didnt sleep on them.

With all this said now, i LOVE band documentaries. period. I could watch em ALL day. 24-7.

This 2 disc DVD starts off with an AMAZING documentary on Face to Face, with all past and present members and some others involved in there career. It also has live footage from there past through the 2004 "last show". I was thoroughly happy after watching this, and pumped to jam out some Face to Face cds instantly right after it. Then it has all there music videos they made. Then Disc 2 is the entire "last show" set from 2004.

If you like a band like this though, you don't need anyones review to tell you to buy something like this....you just buy it none the less, cause you HAVE to have ALL the bands stuff. But i recommend this completely - to punk dudes, music lovers, documentary nerds, hardcore dudes - TO ALL who have lent an ear to the music of Face to Face.

The title pretty much says it all. Shoot the Moon contains a good amount of Face to Face's catchiest and most memorable songs, especially the hit single "Disconnected." My favorite Face to Face material is still from their debut, Don't Turn Away, like the heart-racing "I Want." There are two exclusive songs to the release, the anguished "Thick as a Brick," and a live version of "Disconnected."

Usually I shy away from "best of" compilations, but this one is a keeper. Face to Face is a great guitar-driven punk-rock outfit, and you should already have most of their releases tucked away in your collection somewhere, but if not, Shoot the Moon is the perfect opportunity to get a taste of what you have been missing out on...high energized punk-rock.

"I don't know what you want from me / But it's probably already gone / I don't care what you think of me / Your opinion means nothing at all / Don't say I'm ok / I'm not ok."