Five Pillars of Soul

John Wilkes Booze | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• ASIN: B0001LYF0Y
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #819,918 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Posers., May 11, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Five Pillars of Soul (Audio CD)

Bought this disc after hearing a track on WFMU here in NYC. For a compilation of five mini-albums, it's quite uneven. The songs meander between 'one night with beer and a box of old records' to a 'day in daddy's garage'. They think they're referencing Mel van Peebles, Yoko etc. but after about 3 minutes...it just feels labored and, well, fake.

I don't mean to rag too much on them. It's impressive that they're trying hard to break from their midwestern mold. But at the end of the day, it's a bunch of white boys who heard about the civil rights movement through Tarantino, whose understanding of the Black Panthers is defined through their great cover art.

I can't help but feel that the bunch that makes up JWB hides behind a veil of bamboozled faux-homagery. If it were satire, it would be more interesting, but the album lacks that sense of self-deprecation. These guys want to be serious, and that's hard to buy.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bile, October 11, 2004

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Justin (Louisville) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Five Pillars of Soul (Audio CD)

The lead vocals on this album have to be the worst that I have ever, ever heard. Musical abortion that sounds about as fake as they come. It just kind of seems like a band that ripped things off from other people to make their own stuff, but they didn't realized that Insincerity is so obvious in an album. For the love of god, don't buy this tripe.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If only I could give this negative stars, October 7, 2004

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Durk Funk (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Five Pillars of Soul (Audio CD)

This album is so bad it is insulting. If you are in a situation where you may have to hear the album, please take my advice and get out of the room as fast as possible. The only good thing I can say is that I now know what the worst album ever made sounds like.