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| | As Good as Dead | | | Music Artist : | | Local H | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Fontana Island | | Release Date : | | 1996-04-16 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Manifest Density, Pt. 1
2. High-Fiving MF
3. Bound for the Floor
4. Lovey Dovey
5. I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are
6. No Problem
7. Nothing Special
8. Eddie Vedder
9. Back in the Day
10. Freeze-Dried (F)lies
11. Fritz's Corner
12. O.K.
13. Manifest Density, Pt. 2
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 great cd by an underrated band
Submitted on: 2009-07-18 |
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This cd is one of my favorites. The songs are catchy and intelligent. It's one of the few cds you can listen to all the way through. Local H is now definitely one of my favorite bands that are still around today.
PS Their other albums are great too! |
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High-fivin' Rock-n-Roll
Submitted on: 2008-09-26 |
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I was drivin' in my car in downtown Cicago when they played High Fivin' MFer on the radio back in 1996. I was blown away. I remember thinking, "What the heck was that?! and I gotta find it on CD."
A few hours later I had the CD and was blowing it through my home speakers. Edgy, ripping, funny. Going through the CD, I was impressed with many of the other tracks. Eddie Vedder (the song) caught my ear and eventually the I had the whole album absorbed. Bound For the Floor came out and became popular as the (Copacetic Song). Good tune, but is not representative of the whole album. Many that bought the CD for that song may have been disappointed.
I still have this album on high rotation 12 years later on my iPod. It's grungy and more than a little self-loathing, but still edgy, clever and has a sound that is more "hook-y" than Nirvana. I almost think these guys compare more favorably to The Offspring than to Nirvana that everyone lumps them in with. Tehy aren't as dark as Nirvana. They have a sense of humor about themselves and their world. The are grungy where Offspring are more punky. Bot that you can go wrong comparing them to either of these great bands.
I like all their albums, but recommend this one, Pack up the Cats, and Here Comes the Zoo a little above the others. |
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 Debut of the Nirvana clone fails to impress
Submitted on: 2008-01-14 |
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As much as I love the band's effort, I'd advise people to pass over this album by Local H, one of the first of many Nirvana wanabees. Some songs are sheer genius--"Fritz's Corner" has the best mix of loud guitars and screaming I've ever heard in a grunge song. "Bound for the Floor" is also a great single.
However, singles cannot carry an album alone. All the rest of the songs should be just as good, and this album is filled with slow plodding tracks. Some of the songs have long interludes with acoustic guitar followed by loud electric power chords. There are very few dynamics in these filler tracks. Unlike the Smashing Pumpkins' album "Siamese Dream," the boring parts just continue on end.
It's a shame because the singles are just awesome. If you really like the singles on this album, get it. Otherwise, just buy Nirvana's album "Nevermind." |
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Awesome
Submitted on: 2007-03-07 |
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| If you like alternative music, then you'll love this band. If you like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Deftones, or the likes, then give them a try... Despite being seen as an one hit wonder band, every song is as enjoyable as any other. I never skip any song while listening to them. |
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Nirvanabees with a catchy single
Submitted on: 2006-04-19 |
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| "Bound for the floor" got steady radio play on the late, lamented WDRE in 1996, and why shouldn't it have? The fragmented guitar chords are very catchy and distinctive. Musically, these guys seem to fit somewhere between Slverchair and Failure in the school of Nirvana soundalikes. This isn't a bad album by any stretch, it's just a very nondescript...generic if you'd like...document of where indie rock was at post-Cobain, yet before godawful stuff like Limp Bizkit and MTV buried it as far as the mainstream is concerned. No one would ever accuse me of being anywhere on the radar, what with Metal Machine Music and the Conet Project being staples in my household. Maybe that's why Local H doesn't really do it for me...it's not weird enough, they were aiming at the radio and those fifteen year old girls with the peace frogs. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, but will anyone be listening to this album in 30 years? 20? |
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