If You Only Knew

Acetone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 5, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vernon Yard Records
• ASIN: B000000A3V
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,443 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. If You Only Knew

2. I Don't Really Care

3. In The Light

4. I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand

5. The Final Say

6. When You're Gone

7. Hound Dog

8. 99

9. What I See

10. Nothing At All

11. Esque

12. Always Late

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quiet Ambience and Rumbling Rock, October 5, 2001

By 

musicburgler "genegreen" (DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If You Only Knew (Audio CD)

This album is very quiet even for Acetone. The subtle groove is great though and "The Final Say" rocks out. My favorite is "..All I can Stand" The repeated groove is excellent and the lyrics are cool too. Over half the record was recorded in Nashville and you can detect the country twang. Of course this is very far from country music. Overall it makes you feel good perfect for quiet moments or headphones.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great shag record, August 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: If You Only Knew (Audio CD)

Acetone often get unfairly lumped into the "slocore" category with crap bands like Codeine and Low, for example. Those two bands, however, are just...too...slow. They strum their guitars, wait about twenty seconds, whisper-coo something precious, the strum again, wait twenty seconds, ad nauseum. The music of Acetone is quiet, but very much alive. Bassist Richie Lee and guitarist Mark Lightcap (wait, he might be the drummer; well, anyway) sing great lilting harmonies. They sound like the Beach Boys on smack. The lead guitar work is also magnificent, always rising, falling, or floating in circular patterns. The music has movement: things never get meditative or still, despite the constant quiet and consistent midetempo jazz drumming. And songs like "When You're Gone" are absolutely perfect: the falsetto melodies reach Brian Wilsonesque longing proportions as Lee sings "please say that you wanna, please don't say no." Lee knows how to keep lyrics stripped yet substantive. Which differs from idiots like John Popper of Blues Traveler or Greg Graffin of Bad Religion, who seemingly pick random words out of dictionaries then find their even longer synonym brothers. Actually, that's more Graffin than Popper. Popper's just a windbag. Even when he sings he blows so much hot air I think he's wailing on that little harmonica. But back to Acetone. Their music also achieves a sort of "what decade is this from?" magic. The kind that makes one go out and buy a record player to hear it on vinyl. It embodies the best of old country, soul, and garage rock (frighteningly, the band can tear through a song with ease as well). In other words, don't get scared off from buying Acetone music because you got burnt when buying the Radar Bros. or Codeine's "The White Birch." Acetone are the real deal. Buy this album and file it next to Barry White when you're looking for music to get busy to; I look forward to using it should I ever get action. In the meantime I just get drunk to it. It's great for that, too.

5.0 out of 5 stars a fine example of incredible musical chemistry, August 14, 2003

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kelley (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If You Only Knew (Audio CD)

These guys are a brilliant example of what can happen when you get three musicians with practically perfect chemistry together...there should be a new symbol in the periodic table of elemets for their sound. I am serious! I am a big Acetone fan, and this is my favorite album of theirs. It is also the quietest. You just will never get tired of hearing this album the whole way through...