Customer Reviews

Revolt

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I came upon this purely by chance. I thought of a guy's name. "John Smith." . Straight out of the air. One thought led to another, which led me to this album on Rhapsody. I listened. I liked. Sweet synchronicity? Or new path towards the white, back buckled jacket and a nice, padded room? You be the judge!

I just like the wall of sound, the biting lyrics and the heavy dissonant effect of these full frontal assault tunes. Makes U2 sound platitudinous, in contrast. Fresh, lively, vivid stuff here.

"Calling to the Outside" is probably the signature song. Relentless rock. a la The Cure.

In fact, if I were to compare this band it would be half Cure/ half Sonic Youth. If you can fathom up that amalgam, you can probably talk yourself into at least listening to the Amazon samples of this group. I'd suggest listening to and purchasing the whole CD though. The more I listen, the more I'm convinced these guys might actually be rock stars!

Edited to mention that this is the best new rock band I've listened to in the past ten years. These dudes SLUG! Please, anyone who reads or mildly peruses my reviews, do check this band out!!

Beatles calibre? Pretty damned close!

BK

BK

Great album. If your expecting the same punk-rock as the amazing Pure, then your expectations are wrong. Instead you get strong guitar ryths, along with great vocals. If your aq metal-rock fan, this is for you. Opening with the classic, Paralyse, a song of pure metal brilliance, the album goes on from there. The only weak point, in my opinion, is the single ' beutiful day', which just does not seem like 3 Colours Red. Apart from that, Paranoid People and Be Myself are the finest songs 3 Colours Red have Done. Enjoy!

More inspired by heavy metal than the punk riot of their debut Pure, this album's core sound is exemplified by the awesome Paralyse, chugging guitar riffs punding with a rollicking vocal there too. Calling To the Outside and Age Of Madness may be the sprightliest things here, the former featuring a fantastic momentary pause before the chorus, where you can feel the life being sucked in and prepared for unleashal. Not all the tracks are of the same calibre. Other than Beautiful Day, and Pirouette's melodic pop-rock to an extent, the slow songs fail to reach the same standards, and things like Song On the radio and Be Myself are basically inferior replications fo the likes of AC/DC and Iron Maiden.

These guys broke up, too bad cuz they rock. I love the energy and lyrics on this disc. If you like punk/rock/indie.you need to buy this CD today. These guys were one of the biggest secrets in the world. Now theyre gone. Both of their CDs are amazing.

(It's actually more like 4.5.) 3CR is a NWOBHMish band led by ex-Diamond Head bassist Pete Vuckovic. The music is fast and loud, driven by Chris McCormack & Ben Harding's aggressive guitar riffs and Pete Vuckovic's angry shouting. While this band gets classifiend in the same category as "punk" bands like The Offspring or Green Day, they're actually (IMNSHO) a "power metal" band like Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Accept, Metallica, etc. The songs on this album are all good, but the best ones are "Paralyse," "Intermission," & "Calling to the Outside."

After this highly anticipated and great record this band had to split ... That's a shame .

This is the UK's second best band, right behind Terrorvision, and they don't have a bad song on either of their 2 albums. Revolt has it all, soft melodic gut wrenchers like "this is my time" and the achingly beautiful "Beautiful Day" to the punk riotness of "Age Of Madness" and "Paralyse". My favorite album of the year.

call me a twit, but i haven't listened to any other part of this album except for beautiful day and this song is p-e-r-f-e-c-t.

Essentially what you have here; is another in a long cavalcade of superb British rock bands (Manics, The Wildharts, Terrorvision, Feeder ect). Bands, that have tried, but failed at carving out a considerably large chunk of commercial landscape in the States for themselves. 3 Colours Red don't exactly turn the banal into the sublime on "Revolt"; with the basic Guitars, Bass, and Drums/Percussion setup. What they do accomplish here is some occationally pensive songs, with, more often than not, soaring choruses juxtaposed. Totally slaughtering more than half of the unremarkable, vacant, self-lobotomizing, subhuman dreck polluting MTV and popular radio as we speak in every category. So, you won't find "Pretty fly for a White Guy" or any other severely mentally retarded tracks here. Faves are: "calling out to the outside and "pirouette." A stark contrast to most of the guitar driven stuff today, in intelligence and dynamics. That's the main reason why it won't appeal to the superficial American audience that will dub it "Brit Pop."

Since the Manics have degenrerated since Richey's disapearance, and Nicky thinks he is Richey the second without the brain, a punk band has been much sought for. 3 colours red has filled this void, with the endless talent of Chris Macormack and the supberb voice of Pete. This album is not to be discharged if you are a serious hard core punk fan.