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I was actually going to cancel this order because I didn’t think it was legit due to the obscurity of this album and shipping time. I’m so glad I didn’t. Came almost a week early and is exactly what I was looking for. Recommend this seller!
After listening to a couple tracks uploaded on YouTube for roughly three years, mostly "Blue Flame Ford" and "If You Don't Let It Die", I finally got around to purchasing this album two months ago, and I can truly report it does not disappoint. Both the album and the band truly belong in the pantheon of other household names - Electric Ladyland (Jimi Hendrix Experience), Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles). Of course your opinion may differ from mine, especially if you are old enough to remember when those albums first came out, but still I truly agree with what a lot of the other reviewers here have written about this one being a classic. If not alongside those other artists I mentioned, these guys truly should have been at least as big as other Seattle bands, namely Soundgarden and Screaming Trees, the groups that previously employed Truly's rhythm section Hiro Yamamoto (bass) and Mark Pickerel (drums). In addition to the two songs I already mentioned, there is a whole plethora of other standout songs off this album: "Four Girls", "Hot Summer 1991", "Blue Lights", "Leslie's Coughing Up Blood", "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)", "Strangling", etc. My favorite right now would have to be "Virtually" whose lyrics were highlighted by another reviewer here on Amazon. That song on first listen reminded me so much of "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths. It is also fair to compare it along with a lot of the other material off this album, namely "Hurricane Dance", to The Cure, another favorite band of mine. Speaking of which, I have it on good authority that Truly singer/guitarist/songwriter Robert Roth was also a big fan of The Cure when he was a teenager. Anyway, if you are disgusted as I am with all the garbage that kids these days call music polluting the airwaves, I highly recommend this album to those of you who yearn for the good old days when the music industry actually had talent. It's got everything you could hope to find off those other classic albums I highlighted at the start of this review: epic guitar riffs, heavy bass lines, intricate drum beats, deep lyrics, and amazing vocals. It truly is criminal that these guys did not get the promo they so richly deserved back in the day but I also have it on good authority that they have gotten back together as of late and have something new in the works that they hope to release some time this year. Can't wait!
If you were take R.E.M., place them in a room along with Nirvana and Soundgarden (Superunknown era), and then pump them full of LSD and Blotter acid, and finally have them collaborate on an album, this is what would result. A calming, epic, and surreal blend of grunge and original psychedelic rock that takes it's sounds from the 13th Floor Elevators and Jefferson Airplane, Fast Stories... From Kid Coma is in itself is a underapreciated classic of modern psychedelic rock, painfully and sadly ignored by the world. There's plenty to be liked on this record; "Blue Flame Ford" and "Hot Summer 1991" are wonderfully mellow dirty pop songs and "So Strange" has that with an R&B type twist. "Strangling" is a nice heavy and dirty rocker, and "Hurricane Dance" gleefully and suddenly jumps back and forth from grunge to psychedelics. The album is spotted with melting guitars and Robert Roth's dry Kurt Cobain-Like scream. This sweepingly epic and surreal interpretation of grunge well worth shelling out a couple of bucks for.
This is a crucial slice of bad-ass classic grunge. Definitely underrated. It's only crime was being released 2-3 years too late, or else they would have had a much more massive audience and album sales. Oh well, at least I didn't have to share this band with legions of posers like I did with Nirvana.
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2003
I was in 8th grade when I read a review of this CD in the Dallas Morning News by Thor Christenson--borrowed the money from my parents and begged them to take me over to Bill's Records. My feeble little mind was blown away as soon as I listened to it; of course that does not say much, because that is the same age when Brittany Spears is mind blowing. But even now at 22, it continues to be my favorite album, not just for familiarity's sake or the fact that I've always felt thismuch better than everyone else for discovering such a gem, but it is a genuinely awesome group of songs that should have gotten album of the year. Who's heard of Robert Roth, though? Hiro Yamamoto, yes. Mark Pickeral, yes. But I swear I am so obsessed with Robert Roth, I am eagerly awaiting his solo album coming out this year, hopefully. He is an absolute genius--I've never heard any music like his before. His lyrics go with the style--a love song is not just a love song, it's a summary of an entire group of contrasting feelings. I never skip over anything in this album, I know every song by heart. Each song has depth and drama and is like like a miniature opera. I guess to describe the music itself, I'd have to use such mundane words as mesmerizing, flowing, decadent, trance-like, delerious, perpetual, drowning. I think it is totally worth a blind buy--that's what I did back in 95, and look what a raving lunatic I have become.