Garden Variety

Garden Variety, Garden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gern Blandsten
• ASIN: B000005AH5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,666 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars STOP AND KILL THE ROSES, June 14, 2005

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Guy De Federicis (east of here) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garden Variety (Audio CD)

With a band name more suggestive of a cheap packet of garden seeds, as opposed to anything Greenday may covet, Garden Variety's 1996 debut has 15 tracks, all sounding like an angrier Superchunk, and all nearly interchangable in their similiarity. This can be a bad thing for half-listening ears; the drone of these punkish songs may sound like the same song repeating, and a good thing for the attentive, who may find the exceptional hoarse garage vocals, constant guitar, and loud drums, pounding the same path in each song deceiving, as it leaves subtle progressions and changes to the sonic landscape, more revealing in it's totality, than the sum of it's parts, like a plot of bare earth becoming a garden with a little help from Miracle-Gro. Drummer Joe Gorelick created the cool street scene artwork on the CD front and back cover, looking like the work of an excited Van Gogh after an outing with Greenday.

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4.0 out of 5 stars a messy masterpiece!!!!, September 12, 2002

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david (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garden Variety (Audio CD)

...amazing guitars, brilliant drumming and scream/singing that could make you cry with happiness.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Get Your Facts Straight..., February 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Garden Variety (Audio CD)

Yes, Garden Variety were a good band, but I'd hardly call them emo, and yes they are from the tri-state area, but they are from Long Island, not from New Jersey.