Receiving Transmission [Import]

One Dollar Shot | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 19, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: MSI:FESTIVAL
• ASIN: B0002HMSVK
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #824,645 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Some Assembly Required

2. Mayakovsky Had a Gun

3. Headlights

4. Seven Colours

5. Note to Self...

6. Broken/Fixed

7. Taste of Romance

8. Astronauts Journal

9. Engines Failed

10. Goodbye (Is Not Enough)

11. We Are Not Science

Editorial Reviews

Australian band One Dollar Short return with the follow up to their 2002 Top 10 debut 'Eight Days Away'. This Australia exclusive limited edition pressing comes with a bonus disc featuring 11 B-sides, 'Keepsake Outro - 2', 'Silverspoons', 'Here I Am', 'Ke

Customer Reviews

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2.0 out of 5 stars Receiving Transmission, July 10, 2004

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Luke (Victoria, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Receiving Transmission (Audio CD)

No brave new direction for One Dollar Short on this one. The group continues it's love affair with the Ataris' sound, and their lyrics still revolve around losing everything that there is to lose. The fist single, `Some Assembly Required', isn't bad, it's fast and heavy enough to hold my attention, as are `Mayakovsky had a gun' and `Engines Failed', but the rest is so slow and similar that it gets very old very quickly. The intros to most of the songs actually sound quite promising, but somehow all is lost by about the middle of the song, where the band usually bursts into a slow emotional chorus. One selling point is that Receiving Transmission comes with a limited bonus disc containing some b-sides from past releases. This bonus disc is actually quite listenable due to the fact that there is more variation in the songs, the highlight being a Me First and the Gimme Gimmes style cover of Casey Chambers' `Am I not pretty enough?' Though in some parts Receiving Transmission is a little more up-beat, and perhaps slightly heavier than One Dollar Short's past releases, ultimately it seems that there is just not enough progression in their music to gain any new fans, or even to hold old ones. This is a real shame too, as the band is so great live. My advice is to forget the CD and spend your money on a ticket to one of their shows.