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Mock Orange | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 1, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lobster
• ASIN: B00004VVXU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,987 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Brake Lights On

2. She Runs the Ride

3. Slow Song

4. In Even Time

5. Twelve O'Clock Call

6. Nothing to Write

7. One Way Letters

8. 3 O'Clock

9. The City Call

10. Touch Tone Bell

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars title of review, June 11, 2003

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pancake_repairman "pancake_repairman" (gfjdhgfjhgj) - See all my reviews

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This album is what you'd get if you asked some hypothetical supercomputer to create the most perfect indie-emo record. It is basically flawless, but at the same time it does feel maybe a bit too smooth and perhaps a little inorganic.

5.0 out of 5 stars Indie Emo Punk At It's Finest, August 16, 2011

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default_gamer (Valrico, FL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Record Play (Audio CD)

Don't know what you call the genre- maybe "emo" is a cuss word to you and "punk" brings about ideas of overdone and cliched packed venues full of screaming, shirtless idiots wearing ripped jeans and listening to music as common as student fund-raising car washes. Shoot, maybe indie makes you cringe at a stereotypical "hipster" label that's popular with the kids these days. Okay just screw genres! Whatever you call bands like Braid, The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, etc. doesn't matter, because they all have this incredible and almost ethereal ability to conjure up great emotions of nostalgia, bleakness, and more that I can't define. That's not to say the music's bleak- hell no! And this Mock Orange album is just about as perfectly full of feeling as you can get!

Lyrics- smart and highly interpretable to your own situation. Drumming- straight up, the drummer is one of the most talented ones out there and he's hiding out in this relatively unknown band even today when they moved on to more northwestern indie inspired music. The guitars are chunky and intense, and the bass is skillfully played. To sum, a very talented group of dudes making intelligent music. Best songs? Well, you're not going to download any singles. That's just disrespectful. The whole album is a wholesome, powerful experience. Get the whole thing. better yet, buy the CD to support the band more directly.

"Emo-Punk-Indie" bands all hit me hard with ruminations of the past in emotional drownings. I've found that this album in particular smashes me down right at the end of summer vacation, before you have to go back to school and realize you just wasted your time doing absolutely nothing productive all alone bored as crap, yet you want that to last as long as possible. The aimless, destination free bike riding, throwing sticks in flooded retention fields, trying to think of a way to get shoes down from power lines, and freezing wasps for five minutes to tie a string to their leg and a weight on the other end so they unfreeze and miraculously still live and try to fly away. Ah, my bleak little summers at the ripe old age of 18. It's like these days just drip away into the hot windy breezes like a receipt for new Chuck Taylors. You just don't want them to go even though you ain't returning those sick sneakers! And I'm at that point right now, exactly a week until vacation's over. There's nothing I'd rather listen to in order to absorb a summer gone by. Loneliness is bleak, heaven hits me hard. Damn it, Mock Orange, you're just what the doctor ordered! Now let's go on the swing sets at the abandoned park for no reason and get those stupid shoes off the line by the sidewalk down the road!

4.0 out of 5 stars Marquette Radio loves Mock Orange, September 27, 2000

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Elizabeth Schroeter (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Record Play (Audio CD)

I can immediately tell that this album was produced by Mark Trombino who also produced No Knife's albums. There is a definate similarity. Vocally it is a mix between the vocals of Chris Broach and Bob Nanna (both x-Braid). So if you miss Braid and like bands like the Get Up Kids, No Knife, and Jimmy Eat World--this cd is right along those lines.