Performance and Cocktails

Stereophonics | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: FONTANA HIP-O
• ASIN: B00000ILO7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

V2 Records, Inc., VVR1004492, 1999 13 Track

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stomp Rock Brit/Welsh Style At Its Best, November 30, 2001

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Paul Allaer (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Performance & Cocktails (Audio CD)

The Sterophonics' second album offers a refreshing offering of Brit Stomp Rock (except they are Welsh). What a great album, full of great guitar hooks and band leader Kelly Jones' personal views of life and relationships.

The album starts of with a rousing "Roll Up and Shine", as good an album opener as you will find. The next track "The Bartender and The Thief" (one of the album's highly succesful singles in the UK) is an up-uptempo rocker, just great. "Hurry Up and Wait" (another of the singles) is an accoustic-based slower song, contemplating the question of why we wanna hurry up all the time. "Half The Lies" is one of the album's best tracks, another stomp-along tracks, and the same can be said for the ironically titled "Is Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", demonstrating Kelly Jones' smart lyrics. "I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" (another single) stems from a dream Kelly had about "Ringo Starr and George Harrison singing in front of my parents' house", and while originally intended to be sung by drummer Stuart Cable (in the vein of Ringo Starr), in the end Kelly has lead vocals on this one.

This album was the break-through for the Stereophonics in the UK and it's easy to see why: great melodies, great guitar hooks, and interesting themes. The band has made some headway in the US this year (most recently opening for U2), but they deserve much better. BUY IT!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars it's okay, but what's the big deal?, May 17, 2000

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J. Palmer "jeffron-x" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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It's good, but I just didn't find this album very original. It's okay for what it is, some basic rock and roll, but after the first three tracks all the songs sound the same.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stereophonics brilliant follow up album to Word Gets Around., March 5, 2000

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Matt Vint (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Performance & Cocktails (Audio CD)

Stereophomics once again produce a fantastic record. Following Word Gets Around with its catchy tunes such as More Life In A Tramps vest & A Thousand Trees which proved very popular the new album opens with the fantastic Roll up and Shine and continues the brilliance all the way through to I Stopped To Fill My Car Up. The singles Pick A Part , Just Lookin', Bartender And The Thief and Hurry Up And Wait are all great aswell as the accoustic I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio. The remaining tracks, especially T-Shirt Suntan and Is Yesterday Tommorrow Today?, are superb and the Rod Stewart-esque A Minute Longer is one of this album's highlights. Buy This Album, especially if you've only heard the singles.