Thirty Degrees Everywhere

The Promise Ring | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 1996)
• Original Release Date: September 9, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jade Tree
• ASIN: B000003GCF
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,001 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Everywhere In Denver

2. Red Paint

3. Heart Of A Broken Story

4. Scenes From France

5. Anne You Will Sing

6. My firetower Flame

7. Between Pacific Coasts

8. A Picture Postcard

9. Somebody's Done for

10. The Sea Of Cortez

11. Run Down The Waterfall

12. We Don't Like Romance (Instr.)

Editorial Reviews

Debut album from The Promise Ring.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I do not uderstand how somebody could not love this album., August 20, 2005

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Jordan S. "Purist" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thirty Degrees Everywhere (Audio CD)

I, like most independent music fans take much pleasure from the warm, surrounding sound of analog tape. I don't know if The Promise Ring officially use magnetic tape as their standard, but the warmth and comfort this recording brings is surpased by none. Some people (you know who you are) shun anything The Promise Ring has done since Nothing Feels Good. I think the band has just elvolved and become a much more complex group with interesting melodies and lyrics. Stand out tracks; "A Picture Postcard" and "Heart of a Broken Story." 30 Degrees from Everywhere is most deffinatly an album that is best when listened from start to end in one sitting. That is my review.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best albums I own. Period., July 11, 2003

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anna (Washington DC, the city of mean punks.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thirty Degrees Everywhere (Audio CD)

The first time I listened to this CD, I melted. And I listened to it almost continuously for about two months. This is one of the most heart-rending-yet-strangely-catchy collections of semi-poppy post-emo indie ever made. However, there's a disclaimer. If you're reading this and thinking "Hey, emo. Yeah, I love Dashboard and Weezer and the Ataris." Stop right here, because you're going to freaking hate this album.

My favorite part of it is the total absence of any refinement. Yeah, that sounds awful, but the riffs and vocals maintain a refreshing rawness that was kind of lost in later TPR albums. The vocals are a little off-key, scratchy, crack occasionally... perfect. And it's here where you'll see the prime example of the build-up-to-a-scream song. They do this genre like no one else I've ever heard, except maybe SDRE on diary.

While I noticed that this got a lot of comparisons to that album, and I agree that they'll probably appeal to the same people, "30 degrees" isn't quite so... dark. It's summertime music. It'll make you happy, but not so happy that you'll stop being a brooding angsty emo kid. So go on out and purchase this. It'll stay in your CD player for at least a couple of weeks.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All there, July 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Thirty Degrees Everywhere (Audio CD)

regardless of the previous reviews, i thought it was a great example of emo. i think they did awesome on this record, and i couldnt ask for anything more. this is what emo is all about.