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The Pathetic Aesthetic

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Think weezer, pixies, nirvana, green day, guided by voices, built to spill and elvis costello all locked up in joey ramone's garage with one guitar, bass, drum set, two mics and a mountain of speed. they've been given one week to write the worlds best pop record. they don't get any nookie until it's complete with a stamp of apporval from mr. ronnie spector himself. one week elapses and out rolls a giagantic 22 headed rock beast hurling the best pop hooks, original melodies, classic harmonies, and sassy lyrics you could possibly imagine. the rock world will never be the same. buy this CD or suffer the consequences. the beast knows where you live and has his eye on your little sister.

After the second time through this album, I was possessed to play this album as much as possible. But to not too much, I don't want the magic to go! In under thirty minutes, The Librarians mix straight ahead pre-hardcore punk with clever lyrics which are about all the standard stuff (booze, girls, & being a rockstar). The sheer undercooked and amateur feel (make no mistake these guys know what they are doing) of the songs totally clicks with what it is about obscure rock that makes it so special. It just makes me smile with its clever smartass lyric meets rock hook formula. The Hives just imagine they are this good! So what does it sound like? Strip down the presidents to their raw core and graft early costello to the engine. Highlights? "Peace and Quiet" with its athemic lambasting of "squares", "Rockstar" with its snide groupie comments and inciteful chorus, "Thank you for ...me" with its sarastic and cynical take on collegiate love and "... On Your Party" for its nearly Ween-like crudeness and compassion about relationships in collapse. Singer Ryan also finds great vocal counterpoint guitarist Damon Larson at various points in the album that shows they could do the standard boring indierock thing. One more note has to be made about the unlisted track. Simply hilarious! It takes the whole band up break-up thing and boils it down to pure comedy. This band is not as simplistic as they like to make themselves to be. What a refreshing change! Better any number of pop-punk bands you could trot out.

saw these guys the other day with someone called "extreme elvis". I must tell you, he was extreem. However, no one seems to be able to top the Librarians live. Not even the King himself, now in extreme form, can touch the raw energy these guys put out. I wish there were more bands like this and I hope they all stay slightly below the radar of the masses.

Not only does this album get better with every listen, it actually gets better through the album. Thank You For Me is simply incredible! I once listened to this album for three hours in a row on a late night interstate drive. It kept me both awake and rocking!

I'm a local of the California Bay Area and am constantly on the lookout for new musical talent as I often do freelance work for local magazines and papers. Though not as commercially polished as some acts I've seen come out of the Bay in the last ten years, the Librarians have some of the best energy and certainly put on one of the best live show I've seen in a while.

There first CD effort shows the bands talent as well as some room for improvement. It walks a fine line between sounding produced in a studio, a garage and a live venue without an audience. Surprisingly, this works very well for the band as the listener is able to clearly make out the band's much lauded lyrics while still getting the feel from the music that this is not just another major label backed soon-to-be media juggernaut.

If you like be ahead of the curve or don't mind loving something no one has heard of, this might just be the band for you.

For those of you have never had the experience of listening to one of the best unknown indie-pop bands around I highly recommend picking up this CD. Better would be to get the CD and see one of the most energetic live shows around.

On first listen you will become instantly aware of just how catchy this album is. Further listening and possibly a view of the liner notes will reveal lyrics of a much higher caliber than most of us are used to.

Do yourself a favor and give them a try.

As catchy, rocking and simply impressive for a first album this is I can't give it a full five stars. But let's remeber this isn't olympic diving and a four is pretty darn good. I can say that this is one of the rare occasions where the reviews of the album were pretty dead on.

When I visited America last year my friends keep telling me about a great new band. I went to see them too times and had a great time!!! They did not have CD at time and I am very happy to see it here now...Very good music that is fast and fun!

I purchased this album due to some of the hype they were getting on here and must say I'm not dissappointed. The band is catchy as all hell backed up by great lyrics, which is rare anymore.

On first listen, you will become instantly aware of just how catchy this album is. Further listening and possibly a view of the liner notes will reveal lyrics of a much higher caliber than most of us are used to.

Do yourself a favor and give them a try.