Impossibles

Impossibles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fueled By Ramen
• ASIN: B000005CUW
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,317 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #85 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Ska

Track Listings

1. Eightball

2. Widowmaker

3. Always Have, Always Will

4. Erin With An 'E'

5. So Much

6. Priorities Intact

7. Descriptive Essay, 100 Words

8. Everyday

9. Leave No Man Behind

10. Fat Boy

11. The Week Of August 1st

12. Something Fierce

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars music that's like putting on an old pair of shoes..., August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Impossibles (Audio CD)

One of my all-time favorite albums - between their unpretentious lyrics and not too rude backbeat...If you can't relate completely to at least one of these songs, what do you think you're doing calling yourself a human being? I can't even articulate the greatness of these boys...Listening to the Impossibles is like putting on an old pair of shoes, the kind you learn inside and out...The day they broke up, I felt like I was loosing my best friend.

5.0 out of 5 stars An album to grow up with, October 8, 2006

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Zachary Turpin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Impossibles (Audio CD)

Nine years ago, I didn't know what ska was, I didn't know what punk was, and I most definitely did not know what good music was. I even knew all the lyrics to Huey Lewis' "Hip to Be a Sqaure." Pathetic. So, when a close friend popped this CD into the stereo, my musical education began. Ever since then, "Impossibles" has been there for me, a good all-purpose musical statement, a reassurance that I wasn't the only comics-and-model-airplanes kid on Earth, and the perfect vade mecum for late-1990s Austin, TX. "Impossibles" is creative, energetic, and always fresh.

Coincidentally, Weezer's blue album was (like most of the reviewers here say of themselves) my other great awakening. Weird. I never thought Impossibles and Weezer sounded all that alike, but I can see it. Similar outlook, similar grinding guitars, but the Impossibles are tinged with ska: tight guitar, dueling vocals, and loads of back beat.

This album has to be heard to be believed.

5.0 out of 5 stars Impossible to top!, December 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Impossibles (Audio CD)

the Impossibles are a great band, and this is a great work, full of romance-related angst that everyone can relate to. and yet somehow, upbeat. ya gotta get it, and ya gotta sing along ;)