Customer Reviews

Pop Has Freed Us (CD & Dvd)

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This is a great collection of hits that should have been and b-sides that should have been great album tracks. The other reviewers are missing what pAPAS fRITaS Is ABOUT- AND THAT IS writing great pop songs. Look at all the other indie bands that ripped off the Papas Fritas sound!
I was turned onto this band from the Dentyne Ice commercial that uses the great song "Way You Walk" and the rest, as they say, is history. This was a great band and it's too bad they broke up. BUY IT AND ENJOY!

After Papas Fritas' "Buidings and Grounds" CD proved to be one of the best 'happy pop' CD's of the year, I was thrilled to get this new release. Sure, it only has 9 new tracks, but I figured they had to be worth the price. Wrong! Maybe 2 of the new tracks are really satisfying, the rest sound like leftovers that weren't good enough to make it onto earlier albums. This CD is just a mish-mash of good and not-so-good tracks from other Papas releases, with some mediocre unreleased tracks (including an extremely lame cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Book of Love") thrown in. Definitely not a labor of love!

So if you don't know the band, buy their 2000 release "Buidings and Grounds." And then do yourself a favor and buy Komeda's "What Makes It Go." And The Sugarplastic's "Bang! The Earth is Round." And Jon Brion's "Meaningless." Then you'll really be happy.

YUCK!!!
I'm so dissapointed with this haphazard collection of half-baked songs.
I love PF, but these are songs that weren't released for a reason.
They only have three albums in the first place, so there's really not that much material to sift through!
I recommend just buying the albums.
The DVD is Passable (only 3 videos), but the cd is so bad that I cannot give it any better than one star.