Matt Mays + El Torpedo (includes Bonus DVD)

Matt Mays | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Lunaticworks Inc
• ASIN: B000H30BVS
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,692 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stand Down at Sundown

2. Travellin'

3. Cocaine Cowgirl

4. The Plan

5. Aint So Heavy

6. Move Your Mind

7. What Are We Gonna Do Come the Month of September?

8. Good People

9. Lost Souls

10. It Don't Matter

11. On the Hood

12. Time of Your Life ('Til You're Dead)

13. Wicked Come Winter

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Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Meat & Potatoes Hard Rock Served Up Canadian Style, June 21, 2007

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Peter Walenta "flying parsons" (Long Island, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Matt Mays + El Torpedo (includes Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

Ah, well it may not be exactly new in Canada, but with the release in america on 00:02:59 Records (gotta love that name for a record label), we here south of the border finally can get to enjoy Matt Mays + El Torpedo! This guy rocks and one can hear very strong Full Moon Fever era Tom Petty and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere era Neil Young influences. The cd's neat illustrated cover with the blonde in the car beckons one to get in for a ride down hard rock lane. "Cocaine Cowgirl" and "On the Hood" are stand out tunes in which Mays and band cruise through stories about young rebels and kids just out for a good time. Mays revs up the tempo considerably and to good effect on "Time of Your Life (Til Your're Dead)". This is a modern day classic hard rock album in an era when they seldom make listenable full length albums anymore. By all means if you haven't checked out Canadian rocker Matt Mays, for heavens sake get out there and buy his records!

My only complaint about the record is that Mays needs to develop his vocal delivery so that he sounds more like himself (meaning stretch out a bit) and less like Ryan Adams and the raspy-voiced pack of latter day rockers who pattern their singing after The Replacements' lead singer, Paul Westerberg. For better or worse as great an '80's rock band as the Mats were, Paul Westerberg could not sing his way out of a paper bag, and unfortunately his vocals ultimately detracted from so many truly great Replacements' post-punk and hard rock performances. Sloppy, raspy and flat vocals have a certain charm when singing about being wasted but they don't hold up for an entire album, and Mays does not possess that distinctive Southern nasally drawl that makes Tom Petty's performances so endearing. But such complaints are minor when the guitar playing and the songs are this good. If you like hard rock with lots of guitars drenched in fuzz tone, wah-wah, and reverb, get Matt Mays + El Torpedo. The U.S. release contains an added dvd with videos of three songs from the record including a blistering live version of "Time of Your Life (Til Your're Dead)", plus the acoustic tune "Downtown"...a nice package priced much less than the import version.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Canadian Rock, February 15, 2011

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Lee W. Young "[e-mail]" (Central Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Matt Mays + El Torpedo (includes Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

Most, if not all are keepers. I can only hear maybe one bad track, imho.

Pick it up! You won't be disappointed. In fact, I'd recommend all his cds except for Angels. Not sure what happened on that one.

4.0 out of 5 stars Matt Mays knows his stuff!, March 9, 2009

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Stone (Calgary, Alberta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Matt Mays + El Torpedo (includes Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

Simply amazing. 2006 was a good year for rock-Pete Yorn, Sam Roberts, and Matt Mays. Standout tracks are "Cocaine Cowgirl", "Travelin'", and "Ain't So Heavy". But all of the tracks are good! "The Good People" is growing on me.