Customer Reviews

Hits & Exit Wounds

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This is a crazy group that is really entertaining. These people have mastered the american blues and funk and know their music, instruments and all of the songs are thoughtful and interesting. This is a keeper and I will listen to it for a long time. This went into the Thunderbird for listening with the top down.

I bought this after having got Exile on cold harbour lane a while back. Love hearing some songs I hadnt heard before and have played it to death since I got it a week ago! These guys are different but its soo easy to get into!

I read about this band in a fine article in the Austin American Statesman.
It's the same band that opened the Soppranos w/ "Woke Up This Morning".
However I find myself listening to the rest of the songs more than anything else.
This band is uniquely gifted , innovative and sweet wine to my ears and soul. I only wish they were as popular in the states as the UK. Proably do to some blunders from there label.
This is by far my favorite band and only hope they tour Texas ASAP, especially my home town of San Antonio.
They are known as one of the best live bands around. We got to get these guys on Austin City Limits.
They describe their music as Country/ Acid/ House. No _____. It fits.
Check out this link to learn more.
http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2008/07/0720alabama.html.
Garunteed salve to soothe the soul and butt rocking music to move the floor.
Open letter to Alabama 3, please bless Texas with a tour.

Texas Dave Love

HITS AND EXIT WOUNDS is the BEST CD in my collection. Alabama 3 is the best band that I know of. Hello...I'm Johnny Cash, How Can I Protect You, Monday Don't Mean Anything & Woody Guthrie are great songs that I didn't have.
EVERYONE SHOULD OWN THIS CD!!!

This best of compilation from One Little Indian's Alabama 3 is as at first glance representative of something ignorant. Anyone who names a song after Johnny Cash or Woody Guthrie is either ignorant or silly, and luckily Alabama 3 are the latter. Any chance of a London based acid house band staying true to musical Americana is slim to none, and if they tried, they would fail. Instead, they shamelessly bastardize it. The key to enjoying Alabama 3 is not taking them too seriously, because if you do, they will probably just anger you.

Alabama 3 are a dance group at heart, and their trick is that they dress up their dance beats with harmonicas, acoustic guitars, and growling country vocals. But less impressive than their style is their biting sense of humor. Throughout the course of this Alabama 3 retrospective, the band openly toys with the ideas of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and macho militant sloganeers, and the state of modern music through dirty lyrics and vocal samples. This sense of humor does little to interfere with the band's dance sensibilities.

Most of the time, they are in full on ass swinging mode. In particular, Hypo Full of Love, Woke Up This Morning, Mao Tse Tung Said, and Monday Don't Mean Anything are particularly memorable not because of what they have to say, but because of how danceable they are. But the collection isn't without its acoustic ballads as well. These two modes of play are fairly interchangable, and some of the bands more tender moments might be dressed up in catchy beats. I don't know how much I can say for the album as a collection because I am not really familiar with the bands discography, but what is here is fun for what it is, and fans of dance music or anyone with a sense of humor about American styled music should check it out for sure.

...but unfortunately it just comes across cheesey. The gospel aspects were really overdone, and just about anyone who is a fan of gospel, would of course not be a fan of this. Woke Up This Morning was definitely their catch, but even that could have been greatly improved upon. I think what they need is someone to give them some direction, as it is all over the place. I know they are just trying to be diverse, but I think a little focus and less cheeseyness could have made this band great. Unfortunately they missed the mark.

Retailer sent me the wrong CD. Ordered Alabama 3 - "Hits and Exit Wounds"...was shipped "Schoolhouse Rock" instead.