Achilles Heel: Pedro the Lion: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Bands With Managers

2. Foregone Conclusions

3. The Fleecing

4. Discretion

5. Arizona

6. Keep Swinging

7. Transcontinental

8. I Do

9. A Simple Plan

10. Start Without Me

11. The Poison

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pedro the Lion's "Achilles Heel", July 10 2004

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sam (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Achilles Heel (Audio CD)

Achilles was a mighty Greek who fought in the Trojan War, and was the hero of Homer's Iliad. Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid Thetis. Achilles fate is well-known and he died after being wounded by an arrow to his heel. To me "Achilles Heel" is the work of talented musicians, who worked to produce an album unencumbered with fancy production or superfluous effects. It represents a return to the basics that Pedro the Lion has always preferred. While I don't know what the title of the album means of David Bazan and TW Walsh, for me it is a statement about what other musicians are doing wrong. The Achilles heel of many contemporary musicians is computers, synthesizers and over-production in my opinion. Music doesn't need to be refined to a state of perfection to be good. Pedro the Lion's "Achilles Heel" is clearly evident of that fact. Self-produced, engineered and mixed (with help from Chris Colbert), this album has an energy and vibrancy that will keep you pressing repeat on your player. I picked up a copy of this album at a show the other night and had David and the band autographed my booklet. This is definitely an album I will treasure and appreciate for years to come. Despite what others might write about how different this album is from past releases it is the same ole', excellent Pedro the Lion friends! My favorite tracks at the moment include, "The Fleecing" and "A Simple Plan." So act now, buy the album, and catch Pedro the Lion live during their summer tour.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Progression and Comparisson in Pedro the Lion, July 6 2004

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"seannyff" (orlando, fl usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Achilles Heel (Audio CD)

hardcore Pedro fans are engaged in deabte over the validity of Achilles Heel because it's just so different from Control. sneaky Mr. Bazan had us all thinking we were getting the next chapter in the concept album saga, but read the bio page on pedrothelion.com. Dave himself says he intended a less novelistic approach, and that he wanted people to hear how much fun the record was to make.

see, Control is an album of zero hope, complete dispair, and impossible escape so well done that it attaches itself to you and gets too far inside your head (as a result it's still one of my favorite albums ever). Achilles Heel is in many ways better because it doesn't force itself upon the listener. you don't have to listen to all 11 songs start to finish to get the full effect of what Bazan is communicating. this has some fans scoffing as if there was something wrong with the lyrics or the music was bland.

the secret to enjoying Achilles Heel is not expecting it to be another Control, or Winners Never Quit, or anything else you've heard before. take it for what it is: the album of Bazan's career.

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5.0 out of 5 stars i really wanted to give it five stars, but..., July 2 2004

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Erik D. Nance (high point, north carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Achilles Heel (Audio CD)

here's the thing. david, with this album, seems to finally be breaking new ground musically. though the album's opener - "bands with managers" - sounds like what one would expect from pedro the lion, the rest of the album goes in a completely different direction. just listen to "keep swinging," which sounds much like its subject material (a night in the life of a drunk). "i do" is also comparitively different than anything i've heard on any pedro the lion album (and trust me, i own all albums except the progress ep). though i'm still getting used to the "new sound" of this cd, i would still give it 5 stars for a job - very - well done.

the reason i give this cd only four stars is because of its lyrical content. yes, i am a christian; however, my four star review isn't because of his use of the [swear] words (...). i'm not that unfair. my problem with the lyrical content is that the album doesn't fit together lyrically like david's past efforts. please understand that i realize that each song is a story in itself. i do think that the lyrics have a lot of weak spots, but i'm willing to overlook that for all of its stronger points.

cough. as i was thinking about this album, i decided .. why not give it five stars? it doesn't matter that the entire album doesn't "flow" lyrically. each song is a story in itself, and though i'm frustrated because i want to know the entire story, it only shows david's genius as a songwriter that i do.

oh, and as a final thought .. david, don't give up on jesus. he's the only source of true fulfillment. but you probably know that. that's it.

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Published on Jun 30 2004 by petey_boy

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