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Moldy Peaches

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The Moldy Peaches are one of the most avant-garde, inspiring bands I have come across. At anytime throughout the day if you are ever feeling sad, lonely, or maybe your just taking everything way too seriously. Then just put in the cd and let the music give you something real to feel. Their music is a very raw, solid feel. You know that they actually have talent and haven't been sold out by the mindless media. I always get a genuine happiness when I listen to their music. But above it all, I believe that Adam and Kimya have the most beautiful collaboration of singing voices. When they sing together they have such a strong energy. I have never heard any other duo that can sing different verses at the same time so graceful and beautiful as them. Their voices were meant to be together. So bottom line is if you have an imagination and don't want yourself to be sold then get this CD somehow, somewhere, someway.

direct from the loonybin here's the moldy peaches! imagine if two sexually confused, drug abusing mental patients (boy & girl) got together and formed a rock band. this cd might be what you'd get. too nuts to be a put on, it's very funny, catchy and touching in a (seemingly) naive childlike way. if you're openminded and want something different, look no further. this cd is it. 4 and 1/2 stars.

The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green and Kimya Dawson, make a joyous, sophomoric noise. These 19 nursery rhymes, by turns funny and heartbreaking, are the essence of lo-fi indie sensibilities in a funhouse mirror. They can be grating and rudimentary - I can imagine how a listener could really hate them - but their childish glee (and cruelty) is infectious. This is in part because they turn their tough humor inward a lot, partly because their infantile surrealism verges on the border of terror. But mostly it's because this is the sound of a strong friendship being formed, and bonded, without fear, without censorship, and - most beautiful of all, without limits.

insightful, sweet, naive, innocent, fun, hilarious, thought-provoking. If you're accusing the peaches of hanging on the coat-tails of other NY bands like the Strokes you're missing the point. There's an eery simplicity in their songs that's spine-chilling; they're two friends that are making music because they enjoy it. They laugh on almost all the tracks. Adam is invariably flat. The lyrics are childish. But if you take yourself seriously enough to be put off by the superficialities of the performance then I'd rather you weren't listening to the same music as me anyway :D The fact is this is the first album I've ever had that I don't skip songs on. There is not a single one I'm not that keen on. I love them all. Little Bunny Foo Foo Foo is amazing...Nothing Came Out is the sweetest love song I ever heard...the end of Jorge Regula actually made me cry :*) If you're open minded buy it.

Years from now people are gonna look back and say this was the mad note. So good. There is nothing else like this. I'm gonna go cry now.

I read several reviews of this that talked about people buying into the 'hype'; one who even said this is the kind of album where 1 'cool kid' heard it and liked it, and told his friends, so they all decided to like it too'. I have to disagree.

I had never heard of this band before. At 42, I'm considerably older than their 'target' audience perhaps. But from the first song, I was hooked. There's something so wistful and sweet about several of the songs. Basically, if you like music that has some feeling in it, aren't hung up on technical proficiency (and I do NOT mean that as an insult) and can dig on some lo'fi, interesting music, you'll like this.

You know, this album is really outstanding.

I'm a brit living in the US and this was a recommendation made to me while back in London visting my friend Paul. I had never heard of the Moldy Peaches but when back in CA I ran out and purchased the album...such a good decision.

These clever people take their NY smarty-pants, faux-innocence to such an extreme that their songs emerge grounded, natural and even touching. Of course this twisted confessional gels wonderfully with their truly low-fi recording style. The language is unsuitable for church gatherings but is in no way excessive or forced. As other reviewers have noted this is the kind or recording that really allows one to rise above depressed moods and embrace the joyful absurdity of life.

Sample lyric: "Withot 40oz of social skills, I'm the ass in the crack of humanity. I'm just a huge manatee"

Just Wonderful...purchase immediately.

I was going to a show at the Paramount in seattle washington, to see the wonderful TENACIOUS D!, and they bombarded the crowd with a band none of us had ever heard of... Moldy Peaches. At first we D fans were like "what the hell, bring on the D!" and we were wondering if this was a joke or what. But pretty soon the melodic tunes of the Moldy Peaches was stuck in all of our heads, and they were a hit. Before their performance was over, the Moldy Peaches CD, which they were selling in the lobby, was out, as were the Moldy Peaches shirts. Although the [bad] sounds of the Lo-fi style are irratating at first, they can get to you, and such soon to be classics as "On Top" "Whos got the Crack" and "anyone else but you" were in my head far longer than even the those of Tenacious D. From someone who has seen them live, and didn't have them associated with any other bands (suchas the Hives) the Moldy Peaches were a refreshingly GOOD LISTEN. If you like LO-FI music that will make you laugh at first, and think later, buy this CD...(although I burned it myself, sparing my wallet this pain)

i honestly cannot get enough of this album. i've had it for about two years and tend to forget about it until i get really bored with all music. then i find it, and it makes me smile and think the world has not sold out. it's a cross between really amazing music and the band we all tried to start in college. the fuzzy, blown-out, 4-trackyness of this album only adds to its greatness and its pleasure to listen to. i forget which song it is, but the song ends with the words 'flawless victory' from mortal kombat and then goes into this funny little electronic clarinet, oboe ditti that is just one of the finest moments in recent music. basically, every time i rediscover this album, it lives in my cd player for weeks...

Amazingly simple and astoundingly comlex all at once. And when people say it's a litle weird, they don't mean that it's chaotic and hard to lisen to (like say, some of the crazy feedback chaos songs you might find on Beck's Mellow Gold), because it's definitely melodic. I think they just are referring to the intentionally unsophisticated production. The singing isn't Whitney Houston, the instruments aren't Jimi Hendrix, and the sing-a-longs are a little out of pace with each other, but they capture a raw intensity and innocense that bands like The White Stripes would pay money for. It'll make you feel like a kid again. ...a kid with a really good record collection.