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| | Make Your Mama Proud | | | Music Artist : | | Fastball | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Hollywood Records | | Release Date : | | 1996-06-11 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Human Torch
2. She Come 'Round
3. Make Your Mama Proud
4. Back Door
5. Are You Ready for the Fallout?
6. Nothing
7. Boomerang
8. Eater
9. Knock It Down
10. Lender
11. Altamont
12. Emily
13. Seattle
14. Telephone Calls
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Please Do Not Support Fastball
Submitted on: 2009-08-02 |
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| This EXTREMELY talented band is unfortunately one of many that contributed to a CD called Stop Handgun Violence, a benefit album for a "charity" group of the same name. One of the avowed purposes of the organization is to infringe upon the rights and freedoms of the American people. Please do not support any band that works to make the American people less safe and less free. |
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 A band that later becomes great, early in their journey
Submitted on: 2009-07-13 |
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On this album you have a band with emerging talent and a lot of energy, but still trying to find themselves. At least one songs sounds like Foo Fighters, another sounds like Soul Asylum, etc. There IS some good writing on this album, and some of it grows on you over time, but for the most part it is not Fastball doing what they do best. This is them thinking they had to ROCK most of the time, and that is just not their strong point. They're excellent when they calm down a bit (not saying ballads, though they have some fine ones) and write and sing great songs with great hooks and harmonies. I would love to hear them re-cut some of these songs with their knowledge of arrangements and recording techniques.
If you are new to Fastball and like the Beatles and other great power pop I would save this album for last in filling out your collection. You should start with "Little White Lies" or "All the Pain Money Can Buy" instead. If, however, you're young and full of hormonal energy or just prefer it loud and fast, with often hard-to-hear vocals, "Make Your Mama Proud" IS the place to start for you. |
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 Wait, is this fastball? WHY IN THE HELL DOES NOONE KNOW ABOUT THIS ALBUM?
Submitted on: 2006-10-28 |
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I'm in love. Let me start this off by saying this album has blown me away, and the songs are better than any of the experimental crap of "All the Pain Money Can Buy" and beyond.
I bought All the... when it came out when I was 14 in 1998, as I fell head over heels with the song "The Way", yet I eventually became tired with the cd as there was nothing as flat out catchy and fun as that song (In other words, I got to the point where I viewed them as a one hit wonder and gave up on them).
So when I read reviews of this cd, their debut, for a few years I only heard that everyone told them they had to put more hooks and catchiness into their sound after their boring debut, so I avoided this album completely until this year...but boy was I wrong.
I'm a guy who loves british invasion, grunge, and 70s punk equally, so to hear an album that combines the british invasion ("Are You Ready For The Fallout") and replacements style ballads and punk("Altamont" and "Telephone Calls" respectively) with...dare I say an unholy cross between Solcial Distortion-punk and a Foo Fighters chorus on "Make Your Mama Proud", is just heaven for me.
While the later cds showed them as a slower more "experimental" album that just ended up boring me in the long run, unlike the later cds that value musical style over substance, the songwriting and the music in this cd are just incredible. "Knock it down" alone will make you wonder how a band so vital became so boring to have to collaborate with the likes Sheryl Crow and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne) on their new album, when neither of them have ever written music as good as this.
So for anyone who thought "The Way" was amazing but almost everything else on All The Pain Money Can Buy was pretty boring, buy this album and hear the band when they had more of an edge, because while the later albums might be more "varied" and "experimental", I honestly don't give a crap about that stuff anyway, and this freaking rocks!! |
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Gadzooks this is Great
Submitted on: 2004-08-14 |
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I bought this albun for one song and fell in love with it for all of the rest. It's raw. It's fresh. It rocks out loud!!
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Wonderful!
Submitted on: 2004-08-02 |
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| So you've probably heard of "The Way" on Fastball's second cd, but what about their music before it all. Make Your Mama Proud really goes back to the roots of the band and although some songs may not strike your fancy, overall it comes together as one BEAUTIFUL work of art! Yes, this is more punkish than their other albums, and yes there is a little foul language. However, I am not a very "punkish" person and I still think that this is one of their best cds. Buy it! It's worth it! What's not to like? |
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