Just Add Ice

V-Roys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: E Squared
• ASIN: B000003QCX
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,215 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Guess I Know I'm Right

2. No Regrets

3. Pounding Heart

4. Sooner or Later

5. Wind Down

6. Goodnight Loser

7. Cry

8. What's She Found

9. Lie I Believe

10. Around You

11. Kick Me Around

12. Cold Beer Hello

Editorial Reviews

Audio CD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Miss These Guys, June 23, 2003

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James Carragher (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Just Add Ice (Audio CD)

Steve Earle was on to something when he signed the V-Roys. Too bad they are no more, although one of their creative forces, Scott Miller, released an excellent solo album (Thus Always to Tyrants) and has another on the way, I understand. The V-Roys delivered consistent, intelligent, and listenable twang with 'tude. No complicated arrangements, no array of instrumentation; this was a guitars, bass, percussion, and vocals band, probably best heard in a smoke-filled bar. The CD is all about winning and losing, but never mutually satisfying, relationships. The best songs are No Regrets ("in the time it takes to crush this cigarette/I have no regrets about leaving you" -- not!), Pounding Heart (the dangerous temptation of commitment), What She's Found ("now I've got her so don't even bother to try and get back somehow"), and Lie I Believe (self-deception as art form). Cold Beer Hello is where you raucously wind up at the end of the affair and the CD, the beer more faithful than you or she have been. Only loser cut is Wind Down. Nothing timeless here, but worth having for its energy and witty writing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is easily the best cd of 1996, June 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Just Add Ice (Audio CD)

Do yourself or a loved one a favor and buy this album. In fact buy two, this album will surely become either worn out or stolen in no time. In our mad rush to label everything we have done ourselves a disservice and the v-roys are an example. Rock fans, these boys rock as loud as nirvana or the replacements. Country fans, these boys have got all the twang that the mainstream country acts lack. This album is tightly written from beginning to end. NO FILLER SONGS. I know we are all probably so jaded that we cannot concieve of such an album actually being written in an era in which an album is considered a solid buy if two or three songs therein are of quality. A full dozen songs and any one of which is vastly superior to the shoddy product which seems to flow like the Tennessee river out of Nashville.

5.0 out of 5 stars cult classic, July 11, 2008

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blunderboy "bschoen47" (louisville, ky USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Add Ice (Audio CD)

Saw these guys tour behind this album at Lynagh's in Lexington KY opening up for Ryan Adams' band Whiskeytown on their first tour. These guys came on stage all dressed in suits and blew Whiskeytown away. Like a harder-rocking version of Uncle Tupelo, these guys were alt-country royalty whose marvelous harmonies were doomed by infighting. This is the best of their three recordings.