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so. will the rather fine new album propel these guys into the media glare or will it fall by the wayside ? i like it. a lot. glad to see Arena Rock back on track as that Carlsonics album just didn't do anything for me.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 5 February 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

terrible label.
terrible band.

bonus:
the guy that runs the label is a deuche bag.

― ddb, Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked Games at High Speeds for about five (noncontiguous) minutes. Unless this new one is a LOT better, I'll pass.

I had a weird cover art/album title connection moment when I looked it up on AllMusic:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg100/g177/g17796e9yd5.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg000/g075/g07587p4g2p.jpg

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

One of a very few bands positioned to make the big leap. I'm all for it. They're playing a number of songs in concert that are better than much of Get Saved, and "Downstate" is infinitely better live, but the title track is better than any rock song I've heard on the radio since The Strokes' heyday (a comparison owing solely to the fact that both are trad guitar rock acts). "Barrio Superstario" is the first single, they're shooting a video sometime soon.

One of my favorite songs of the last year wound up a bit deflated here. Always seems to happen with songs that lived too long before making it to tape. What I said last April: "It's hugely appropriate that these beltbuckled Brooklyn-burg brawlers have signed to Arena Rock: "The Product" - available from the band's website in perfectly good "demo" form - heralds their graduation from stop-time math beats and dance parts to the simpler, overdriven anthems their label cheekily namechecks."

A set designer put a Games at High Speeds poster on the walls of a Law & Order: SVU college dorm room last month, and they were on page 50 of the last issue of Details. They already have most of the follow-up written, really catchy stuff. If this one does well enough to move them up to a major, there's nobody I'd rather see on MTV.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 5 February 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not awake yet, excuse three instances of "better" in one sentence...

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 5 February 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

is it my imagination .. but this band seems to have fallen off the planet?

as has the label it appears much to ddb's glee i suspect.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Apparently they're playing Maxwell's on the 25th: Myspace page. No idea where their real website went.

― gooblar (gooblar), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

ta for the pointer

.. the blog indicates all didn't go too well doesn't it (debt more debt and a chunk of lazines)

still looks like they have come out to play recently.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

bloody hell.

11 years on, and i still enjoy this bands very limited catalogue.

― mark e, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:35 (ten years ago)

So do I. Just good tunes, innit? Apparently they released an album back in 2012 which barely made a ripple then disappeared again. Ah well.

― meaty, desperate, and honest about the world we live in (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 13:31 (ten years ago)

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