New West Motel

Walkabouts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B0008GIUDU
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #705,849 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic American band, August 6, 1999

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"[e-mail]" (Carrboro, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New West Motel (Audio CD)

The Walkabouts are the best straight-ahead rock group I've heard in the 90's -- no, they're one of the best I've ever heard. They're very popular in Europe, and it's a shame they aren't better known in the US. Incredible guitar anthems and ballads. This album and "Setting the Woods on Fire" are equally excellent. Carla, the female singer, beats anybody out of Nashville for grit and pathos. The lyrics are like a good anthology of American short fiction. "Classic" rock in the best sense of the word.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Subpop is Stupid, August 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: New West Motel (Audio CD)

The Walkabouts owe nothing to Mudhoney. They were peers, coming up through indie music together, sharing ideas and the occasional stage. The boys at Subpop were incredibly, classicly stupid for never giving the Walkabouts the support they needed to bring the money home. It's fitting that the Walkabouts have outlasted that surly little label's popularity.

This CD is one of the best. Their cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Snake Mountain Blues" and "Grand Theft Auto" will restore your faith in the power of the electric guitar.

4.0 out of 5 stars intense song-poems., February 12, 2007

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fluffy, the human being. (forest lake, mn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New West Motel (Audio CD)

these are the songs of storytellers. poems standing in as songs, woven in intense, heavily layered music, full of rhythmic drive. the band sports two lead singers: one female (carla torgerson), one male (chris eckman), and a whole host of instruments on this recording: guitars, lap steel, accordian, mandolin, vibes, piano, organ, bass, drums, violins, cello, and even viola. standout tunes for me are: the powerful rock song "glad nation's death song," "long time here," which is a haunting vocal by carla torgerson, "findlay's motel," a great ballad, and perhaps my favorite "murdering stone," which is a beautiful mid-tempo tune with eckman and torgerson harmonizing on an oddly poetic lyric. all in all, an outstanding piece of work.