The Things We Make

Six By Seven | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Interscope Records
• ASIN: B00000DCZN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,160 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Beautiful Shape

2. European Me

3. Candlelight

4. For You

5. Spy Song

6. Something Wild

7. Brilliantly Cute

8. Oh! Dear

9. 88-92-96

10. Come Down

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Divide and multiply, March 30, 2000

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Toby Huntington (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Things We Make (Audio CD)

Any band who can carry a singer with as bad a voice as Chris Olley have to be pretty impressive - that Six By Seven manage not only to do this, but even make his blocked-nose delivery surprisingly emotional have some kind of rare talent. Not that it shows all the time - the first five songs are good, and Brilliantly Cute is a cathartic masterpiece of guitar abuse, but towards the end of the album there is a distinct lack of innovation and enthusiasm. In European Me and Spy Song they demonstrate that they can take a song and build it up to great effect; in Something Wild they need only four minutes to prove they can be a poor pub-rock band. Funny that the grand gestures should be the ones that come off well, while the short stuff lets them down badly.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!! It justs gets better, February 10, 1999

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[e-mail], Steven Williams (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Things We Make (Audio CD)

Every time I listen to this album, from Nottingham's finest, I get truly blown away with the emotion encapsulated in it. Its truly amazing, and gets better with every listen. To some it mind sound ordinary and dull, but if you look a bit deeper, you will find an album of beauty, Chris Olley's Voice is amazing, the guitaring out of this world. I saw them live last year, and they were fantastic, the guitarist played the guitar with a drum stick for the first three songs!!!! (how cool is that) This album is a must buy, for everyone If you are fed up with all the meloncholy rubbish thats around at the moment buy this, it will blow you away (not in a Metallica, kind of way though, thankfully) in an emotional way. The only way to experience this emotion, is by buying this album yourselves. At $11 its a must buy bargain, for any music fan In my view one the albums of the 90's

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good start to their career, April 14, 2004

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alexliamw (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Things We Make (Audio CD)

Six By Seven are one of the best indie bands in the UK, and command a strong following despite a lack of mainstream success. Their debut has longer and more epic songs than the two albums which have followed since, with very 90s, slightly underproduced production, and a wall of sound. A bit like Stone Roses meets My Bloody Valentine perhaps. 'Candlelight' has a baggy groove and a catchy tune, 'European Me' is a haunting, slightly gothic number and 'Oh! Dear' is a building, swirling symphony of noise. In between there are some less successful efforts: the slightly one-dimensional 'Something Wild' and 'Brilliantly Cute', the latter verging into punk-influenced territory without the confidence of later efforts like the explosive 'Speed Is In/Speed Is Out' off their 3rd album. '88-92-96' is a little directionless.

Its actually less heavy than some of the stuff that followed: third album 'The Way I Feel Today' is more varied and has more focus and clarity in the sound. The last 5 songs are noticably less good than the first 5, with the exception of 'Oh! Dear'. The first 5 have more memorable guitar shapes and tunes. Overall, though, this is a good album worth owning, if not as great as later efforts.