No Tellin' Lies/3.V

Zebra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 29, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: American Beat
• ASIN: B000P46PCS
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #209,955 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wait Until the Summers Gone

2. I Don't Like It

3. Bears

4. I Don't Care

5. Lullaby

6. No Tellin' Lies

7. Takin' a Stance

8. But No More

9. Little Things

10. Drive Me Crazy

11. Can't Live Without

12. He's Making You the Fool

13. Time

14. Your Mind's Open

15. Better Not Call

16. You'll Never Know

17. About to Make the Time

18. You're Only Losing Your Heart

19. Hard Living Without You

20. Isn't That the Way

Editorial Reviews

2 LP's on one CD, No Tellin' Lies (1984) and 3.V (1986).The New Orleans rock trio Randy Jackson, Felix Hanemann andGuy Gelso. There are 20 tracks on this CD. Remastered. Standard jewelcase. 2001 release. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Probably worth it, July 7, 2003

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Music Fan "Music Lover" (TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Tellin Lies / 3.V (Audio CD)

3.v is probably Zebra's best album, although it's hard to go wrong with their first album. What's wrong with this collection is the 2nd album, No Tellin' Lies. Mostly made up of older material, it's not a great album. There are 2 or 3 good tracks on No Tellin' Lies. The best one is Bears.

That said, 3.V is practically flawless. While the first album was a nice hard rock (probably heavy metal at the time) with nice hooks, and the 2nd was an ok hard rock album with few hooks, 3.v is Zebra reborn as a hard rocking pop outfit.

The album went absolutely nowhere, but after 16 years, the album holds up very nicely.

Given the price of this set, it's well worth the purchase, though you might want to rip it, and remove some of NTL's weaker tracks.

4.5 stars for 3.v
2.5 stars for NTL

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Had to counteract that 1 star review..., July 1, 2004

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D. Jones "DJ" (State College, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Tellin Lies / 3.V (Audio CD)

I don't usually rate these things but this product is being unfairly moved down by the 1-star rater. It's true that "No Tellin Lies" is an average album, but "3.V" is simply perfect, and one of the most overlooked creations of the 80's. Anyone who likes hard, melodic rock would find it essential.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love These Two-For's!, July 3, 2007

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Steven Swan (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Tellin' Lies/3.V (Audio CD)

This one that features their 2nd and 3rd albums, and the price is nice, and it was smart to leave them at a low price, I can't see the average person taking a chance if this was 20 bucks, can you? And I can get the song again "You're Only Losing Your Heart" (on 3.V), I used to have the cassette of 3.V, but it is long gone. I do have "In Black and White", and many of the songs here are on that one also, along with quite a few from the debut, but Zebra doesn't have a huge official catalog; so it's not really that difficult with the price of these to be a completist for the bands music in this case.

The band has always intrigued me in the style of the singer, his high pitched sound, along with a hard rock sound and melody also seems to be the late 70's meeting an early 80's alternative rock sound. It may not be an complex and progressive as a band like Rush, or Yes, but they seemed to have carved out a niche in the rock world over the years. You don't hear alot of people say that Zebra is one of their favorite bands, but perhaps they need to take another listen to this classic stuff and rethink it?

Zebra is a band to me that really I like just about every one of their songs. Probably the only song I don't like and skip each time is the "La-La Song", and it still bothers me that that one is on the greatest hits instead of "You're Only Losing Your Heart".