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Picture of Health

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I love it when I seen a band play live and it sounds just like the CD. That's exactly the case with Picture of Health. Lead singer Hugh Dillon's snarl and ferocity come through completely intact on this album. The music is dark, sad, fast and very agressive. The cover of Tweeter and the Monkeyman is fantastic. This is one of the hardest working bands in Canada and it shows in their albums and in their live shows.

This is the debut CD of (I feel) Canada's premier Rock Band. They're a band that can ROCK, but after you listen to their music, you catch yourself thinking about the lyrics. I know, I know, the words thinking and rock band don't usually belong in the same sentence, but these guys are the exception to that rule. Hugh Dillon is a lyric writing genius. He's also a neurosis filled, authority hating, terminally depressed rebel that we'd all like to be in our rock and roll dreams. Buy this CD, listen to "When Something stands for Nothing" and "Cemetary" and pretend you're on that stage...all your dreams will come true.

Simply one of the best, if not the best CD I've ever bought. I'd also recommend their cd Smile and Wave, or the Greatest Fits cd. One of the best, or in my view the best Canadian band that ever existed.

The headstones are a good, but not great band. If it wasn't for the lead singer, Hugh Dillon, I don't think I'd own any own their CD's. As it is, I have all three. This is their best. While most have heard "Something Stands for Nothing", a solid song in its own right, the landmark cut from the album has to be their cover of the Travelling Wilbury's "Tweeter and the Monkey Man". If you are interested in this band, start with this album over the others.

The Headstones are a very tight band. If you like good old rock & roll, and a little melody than you best pick up this album. With great tunes as: Three angels, It's all over, & Cemetery. You will want to "crank it up" trust me. Also check out Smile & wave & Teeth & Tissue.

I came to The Headstones by decidedly strange means, or what seemed odd to me. I'm a big fan of `Left 4 Dead 2', a zombie shooter made by Valve software. I usually play as a character named Nick in the game, who tends to have a rather cynical attitude towards just about everything. I'm a trivia nut, so I tend to seek out what the voice talent for various media if they're not big names to see what else they've done. In taking a look for who voices Nick, I came across a Canadian talk show where they interviewed Hugh Dillon about a TV show he's currently in. During that interview, they mentioned his band called The Headstones. The short clips sounded good, so I checked out this album.

Turned out to be a fantastic move on my part, as I was completely eaten alive by the greatness of the record. This was put out in 1994, which was when I had formed some of my long lasting musical attachments so it's no surprise, really. The band sounded a lot like a southern Stone Temple Pilots to me, but as so many have mentioned it's Dillon's voice that seals the deal. That's not to discount the music, it's solid throughout and really any of these tracks could have been singles to my ears.

In the States there's a tendency to laugh at anything Canadian, but time again you find something like this and it dispels that nonsense immediately. How I never heard of this group is beyond me, since it's right within the scene I used to listen to, but better late than never. A fantastic album.

Only for the actual presance of a guitar this bads sounds like a ripoff of tragically HIp with the same dying goat vocals. Call this album Tribute to the HIP: Revenge Of The Goat.