Slick Shoes & Cooter

Various Artists - Alternative - Punk, Slick Shoes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fueled By Ramen
• ASIN: B00004TDXQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #522,588 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Crooked

2. Hope Against Hope

3. Ten Ways to Stay Out Debt

4. Work It

5. Clockwork

6. The Silver Star

7. Pin the Tail on the Donkey

8. Spring Training

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Kind of Disappointing, December 7, 2000

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Aaron Wasielewski (Alhambra, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slick Shoes & Cooter (Audio CD)

I'm a Slick Shoes fan, and was excited about this CD, but when I finally got it, I was disappointed. The Slick Shoes songs, although not terrible, are the worst I have heard from them - they just sound kind of sloppy and not that well written. The biggest problem I have though is that the production sucks. The vocals are WAY too loud and everything else is muffled and wet sounding. Not what I expected from Slick Shoes.

The Cooter songs, on the other hand, are very good - very catchy. All though I had never heard Cooter before I bought this CD, they are the reason I don't regret buying it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars slick all the way, June 11, 2000

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Chris Rivero (Downey ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slick Shoes & Cooter (Audio CD)

this cd brings out the punk and if you like hard punk music then this cd is for you Slikc shoes rock man

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Eh., May 27, 2002

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Scott Heisel (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slick Shoes & Cooter (Audio CD)

The split CD can be a blessing or a curse. If you are a relatively unknown band and are able to snag one with a popular act [i.e. Useless I.D. and The Ataris], it can do wonders for your career. Conversely, on a split CD, you might put your best material on the CD, but the other band can still blow you out of the water, which makes you look foolish. That is the case here. Slick Shoes is a strong melodic punk band. They remind me a lot of Unwritten Law, especially the vocals, which need to come WAY down in the mix. The singer drowns out the band a decent amount of time in their first 3 songs on the CD. Their fourth song is a stupid outtakes song, with random retarded soundbites thrown in. Skip it. Slick Shoes had definite potential, I would stay on the lookout for them. We then move on to Cooter, who once again are able to crank out more catchy punk rock than yo ucan shake a stick at. Yes, people call them unoriginal, but I disagree. Their vocals to me seem to have more of a pleading aspect to them, and a definite sense of urgency. You feel bad if you put this CD on and forget to listen to the singing. And yes, the guitar parts and drum parts would fit into the Fat Wreck camp, but what can one expect? There's not much territory left to be covered by punk rock within itself, so you're best off looking for the best imitators of the best bands to get you through the day. Cooter is not a NOFX or a Lagwagon, and probably never will be, but that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy them. So, the final tally on this CD is one great band, and one band with a lot of promise. Not a bad purchase.