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The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows
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  • Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
  • Original Release Date: February 27, 2001
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Hollywood Records
  • ASIN: B000059RVX
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,967 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Great News Around You - The Minus 5
2. Got You - The Minus 5
3. Ghost Tarts of Stockholm - The Minus 5
4. Rifleman - The Minus 5
5. You Don't Mean It - The Minus 5
6. Thousand Years Away - The Minus 5
7. Amazing Dolphin Boy - The Minus 5
8. Thirsty Bird - The Minus 5
9. One Bar at a Time - The Minus 5
10. John Barleycorn Must Live - The Minus 5
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Disc: 2
1. Barky's Spiritual Store - The Young Fresh Fellows
2. Lonely Spartanburg Flower Stall - The Young Fresh Fellows
3. I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - The Young Fresh Fellows
4. For the Love of a Girl - The Young Fresh Fellows
5. Fuselage - The Young Fresh Fellows
6. My Drum Set - The Young Fresh Fellows
7. Worthless - The Young Fresh Fellows
8. She's a Book - The Young Fresh Fellows
9. Good Times Rock 'N' Roll - The Young Fresh Fellows
10. Little Bell - The Young Fresh Fellows
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Scott McCaughey's two bands here deliver a bargain package of a full-length CD each. Given their enjoyably shambling live shows, the Minus 5 are hardly the first outfit you'd expect to turn in an album as magnificently crafted as Let the War Against Music Begin. McCaughey and a cast including Peter Buck, Posies Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer, and Robyn Hitchcock render perfectly wistful widescreen pop loaded with direct lyrics, loving vocal harmonies, vintage electronic-keyboard sounds, and a Spector-esque propulsion. A winner that recalls and betters McCaughey's beloved Beach Boys discs So Tough and Holland, its counterpart finds the Young Fresh Fellows returning to the studio for the first time in several years. Unsurprisingly more haphazard than the Minus 5 record, Because We Hate You nonetheless has its share of lyrical moments ("Worthless," "Summerland") mixed in with the gleeful dork-rock mini-epic "My Drum Set," an amped-up cover of Boyce & Hart's "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite," and the speaks-for-itself "Mamie Dunn, Employee of the Month." --Rickey Wright

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A hidden gem, July 8, 2001
By foobar (Palo Alto) - See all my reviews
I picked up this CD after hearing a brief review of it on NPR. I wasn't expecting much, but I was completely blown away. The two CD concept is quite clever, and each album has some really great tunes. Most of the lyrics are too smart for mainstream radio these days, but the combination of wit and excellent melody lines make this set a steal.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lost greatness, November 17, 2004
By Howlinw (California, USA) - See all my reviews
I cannot believe that this is out of print when so many lousy albums are in print. It is an injustice to the world when two of the best albums I have heard in recent years, packaged together no less, are not available through amazon.com. Well, lucky me, a local indie record shop had this in their used department in mint condition. From the moment I stuck disc one (Minus 5 was what I went to first) in my car stereo I was hooked. This is some classic pop in line with the Beach Boys, the Ramones, and 80s "college rock." Tuneful to the extreme, lots of real soul, and the freedom to goof around that comes of low commercial expectations. The songs are smart, funny, uplifting and insightful. In an alternate reality it would be a big, big hit with everyone. It would be blasting from loudspeakers in the streets. But here we are in 2004 America where no one cares enough even to keep it in print. Evrybody has lost out without even knowing it.

-HW
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Fellows are back and moldier than ever!, March 1, 2001
By Frank S Branda (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
Finally, after years of waiting, Young Fresh Fellows fans get another helping of tasty morsels. But what's special about this package is it includes a second disc of frontman Scott McCaughey side band (or is it now his primary band?) The Minus Five. So we need to have two reviews of this molecular infusion of music to give a proper perspective on just how good this collections to ditties really is. Because We Hate You is the Fellow's champ in the corner and packs the kind of punch that doesn't sting until possibly the morning after when you wake up all black and blue. Like a good poem, it brings more meaning each time you listen to it. The infection grows and you're hooked, needing an swift kick in the pants, if you are to have any hope to stop grooving. Instant hits are For The Love of a Girl, I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight, Fuselage, and Little Bell. Any of these songs would be appropriate for radio play should the general public regain some sense of fine music taste again and get off the boy band kick. Other songs require some sense of humor and if you have been following the Fellows for any length of time you should get the jokes with relative ease. A fine time indeed!

But wait.. there's even more! The Minus Five featuring Scotty McOi (that's Scott MaCaughy to you smart guy), Ken Stringfellow of the once defunct, now resurrected, band The Posies, some guest vibes from Robyn Hitchcock, who performs well in storefronts, and some new guy on the scene, Peter Buck from some band called REM. Your first thoughts might very well be Pet Sounds when the vibrations of the notes hits your ears, and you'd be correct in thinking so. Great News Around You is a wonderful song, full of rich melodies, and great instrumentation. Other stand outs are The Rifleman with it's Big Star ending, You Don't Mean, It which could have easily been the song used in that Tom Hanks film That Thing You Do, and would have been a better suited title. There's a bit of honky tonk found within One Bar at a Time, and John Barleycorn Must Live is a must for any Wilco fan out there. And even though I peppered several big names throughout the descriptions of some of the songs, the record is all Minus Five, and that's not all bad.

I admit I haven't gotten much sleep since I first cracked open this CD because my dreams are filled with a different song every hour. Just try getting some sleep with She's A Book playing in the background! So all in all a wonderful collection of music has been crafted by Scott and his cast of thousands for your listening enjoyment. Don't wait a minute longer and buy this CD right now and feel the blessings of YFF and Minus 5.

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