Customer Reviews

Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Four years ago, I heard Freak Power while visiting my brother in Geneva. I liked it so much he made me a tape that listened to ceaselessly. Unfortunately, upon returning to the U.S. and desperately wanting to own the CD, I found that not a single store owned a copy of either album these guys put out ("More of everything...For everybody," and ""Drive-Thru Boot"). I even checked music stores in Vancouver and Toronto during a cross-country trip throughout North America, to no avail. To make a long and boring story short, I finally found copies of both albums (imports, which I generally try avoid due to their inexplicably outlandish price) and gorged myself on Freak Power's power.

Just so you know, the only reason I gave this album, which is a best-song amalgam of the two, a four is because their sound is now a little outdated (as can insinuated by a mere reference to the fact that Fat Boy Slim USED to produce their work, and that they are often mistaken for the Getaway People and G-Love). Despite these trivialities, Freak Power has a sound and style that will always lift a lover of funky, optimistic beats and lyrics to a place where people dance, sing-long, or just sit down and chill out with a smile drawn lazily across their faces. All the tracks on this album refuse to stray far from the boundries of quality, inevitable making the album consistently enjoyable and skip-ahead-free.

If, like me, you want an album overlooked by the masses, yet capable of being enjoyed by all, then consider yourself lucky enough to have read this and buy it. You don't even have to leave the country.

This is an upbeat albumn that really sets its own funk rhythm. With lyrics refering to the book "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" (by Tom Wolfe), each song has a beat and a story of its own. If you want something fun, light and downright FUNKY to listen to - this is the albumn for you!

This CD is hot! It is awesome music that puts you in a good mood automatically with its upbeat tempo and smooth sounds. Many of the sounds and lyrics are different than American stuff so it's fun to have some variety in a music collection. It's also fun to rock out and sing along with the songs. I recommend this CD to anyone who wants to put some groove in thier step.

This is unexciting but inoffensive music that in some situations would be quite appropriate, like, say, a cocktail party of middle-aged people in the burbs who think they'd be pretty cool if only they weren't saddled with the car payments, the kids ..... The band loses a star for implying they're freaks when they're obviously not. C'mon guys, you missed that boat by 20 years, you were either there or you weren't. Accept it and move on.