4.0 out of 5 stars
hello, July 31 2004
This review is from: Just One More (Audio CD)
I think it's the best Mad Caddies record with Ducks and Covers. I'll just review it song by song.
1. Drinking for 11 : Slow reggae song. I habitually don't like reggae but this one is sooo good. I like the horns in it. 10/10
2. Contraband : A fast punk-rock song. It's not long but still good and is not pop. Exactly what I like. 8/10
3. Villains : One of the best song on the record. The horn intro is one of the best I ever hear. After starts a fast punk song than the horns and the ska part come again. It's so good. Again, it's not pop. 10/10
4. Silence : One of the best song again. It's a real cool ska song (style of The Joust or Medium Unwell on DAC) with an heavy chorus punk-core style with screamings. It's different but excellent. 10/10
5. Just One More : Very different from what they habitually do. A kind of reggae mixed with latin music and a punk-horn ending. It's strange to explain buit it sound damn good! 9/10
6. Day By Day : A simple punk song with some element of pop in it, but not too much, so it's ok. I like it, it's not excellent, but still great. 8/10
7. Leavin : Another very good song. The horn part is really cool and entertaining and the lyrics are cool even if they are not poetry with big metaphors in it. 10/10
8. Rockupation : Probably the worst song on the record. It's a king of pop-punk song. Yeah, you probably discovered while reading my review that I hate pop-punk. Well it's true. But the lyrics are very good, I like the subject. 6/10
9. Last Breath : One of my favorite song. Don't know how to call that style but it's real cool. The chorus make you want to jump everywhere. 10/10
10. Spare Change? : A good reggae song. Not the best they've done but still great. 8/10
11. Riot : A good fast punk-rock song about politics. Well, the lyrics are not real good but the music is. It's good, because we can see that they can come to poppier style without losing their more "hardcore" style. 8/10
12. 10 West : A CLASSIC! An excellent ska song. It is really happy with excellent horn parts. Even if it was the only song on the record, I would've buy it. 10/10
13. Good Intentions : I don't really care about this one. It's not as bad as Rockupation but it juste didn't catche my attention. 7/10
14. Wet Dog : Very different. The guitar riff is really good and with the horns on the chorus, it's just superb. 10/10
15. Game Show : A simple ska song for the ending. Definately not a classic, but still real good and entertaining. 8/10
Well, this record would be more 4.5/5 but I can't so I put 4/5 because it doesn't deserve perfect score cause of some not real good songs such as Rockupation and Good Intentions. But I'm not telling it's a bad album. You must be a little bit more open-minded than juste "punk-ska" because there is muche more here and some people don't like that. But, it is, in my opinion, a chef d'oeuvre.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Mad Caddies Album...best Album...Period, Feb 19 2004
This review is from: Just One More (Audio CD)
This is by far the best album I own. From the opener Drinking For Eleven to Just One More to Track 15 every song seems to flow together. This is one of the only CDs I can listen to without skipping through a single track. Mad Caddies musical genius is shown through how they can mix ska, punk, reggae, and Latin music into one album and make it sound like a brand new musical genre. Buy this album and you will bring it everywhere with you...you won't be without it.
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