Heat Miser [Original recording remastered]

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Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: What Are Records
• ASIN: B000001HZP
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #528,735 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Long Dedicated fan and UNI student of days gone by., November 21, 2009

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Youth Sponsor Dave (Iowa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat Miser (MP3 Download)

I regularly saw these guys perform live when I was a student at the University of Northern Iowa. I'm suprised they never really made it bigger than the midwestern scene, they are indie rock at it's finest. They had a different sound all togeather that grows on you. You have to see them live, they sound better live than on the albums. I can attest to that. Though the home club they played in has been since reduced to a pile of rubble saddly on College Hill, these albums remain a testiment to their musical prowess.

5.0 out of 5 stars Track Listing, May 4, 2008

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Dmitrirex (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat Miser (Audio Cassette)

1. Heat Miser 2:56
2. The Works 2:58
3. Lovely, But Deadly 3:18
4. I Know What I Like 4:34
5. Big Bag Of Dope 3:29
6. Oh Yeah (Yeah) 2:52
7. A Tower Bends 2:18
8. The Other Part 1:57
9. Death Buggy 2:30
10. Half-Breed

5.0 out of 5 stars This Is Really Good, June 23, 2006

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Jeffery S. Russell "spaceman" (Kalamazoo, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heat Miser (Audio CD)

HOLS is best descibed as Hick Indie Rock. The term 'Hick' isn't to be taken in a derogatory way. The 'Hicks' of this country have industrialized the world. Not a small feat by any means. At the same time the hicks are usually modest, straight-forward people with a good work ethic. They also invented the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) philosophy and HOLS embraces this approach. This is not over produced, over thought, over anything. It's honest, sincere and down-right rocking; a perfect balance of essential elements. This power trio dishes out some tasty grooves and they have a very infectious sound. If you let these songs in to your head you'll never get them out; it's not a bad thing though. Heat Miser is the follow-up album to their debut One Big Cake. Both of these albums are excellent, but Heat Miser has a bit more of any edge to it; it is the hard-line according to HOLS. The only way they could of made this a btter album would have been to put the song 'I Am My Own Grand Paw' on it - one of my all time faves that somehow never really managed to appear on any albums - better call Carl Mulden about this unexplained mystery. Buy this - you won't regret it - promise!