Before The Robots Music Cd

Better Than Ezra - Before The Robots

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Before the Robots      Artist : Better Than Ezra      List Price : $16.98 USD        Your Price : $16.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2005-05-31      Studio : Artemis Records      Label : Artemis Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (68 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Before The Robots      Thank you      Rating:      I have had this cd for almost two years and it is still a strong player in my rotation. This is an excellent example of when a band leaves their label to do their own thing. The results are, in this case, brilliant. I've been following this band for about 15 years now and they always ranked decent on my top list, but this is the disc that put them into the prime time. A lifetime (retolled from the groggy Closer version) is that song you can't help but scream at the top of your lungs and go back to a place when you didn't have to pay a morgage and summers were full of friends and good tunes. Better than Ezra captures this emotion better then any other band. That youthful angst full of memories. It will almost bring tears to your eyes. Add to this such amazing tracks as "American Dream", "Hollow", "Daylight", "Burned", the heartwrenching "Our Last Night" and the highly dancable "Juicy" and you have a cd worthy of this review. Better than Ezra?....Well definately the best of some and better than most.     Customer Reviews for Before The Robots Cd      Great stuff!      Rating:      I'm a huge fan of BTE and this is the best album they have put out yet. Kevin's lyrics are poetry and don't disappoint! Editorial Reviews for Before The Robots Audio Cd      Amazon.com      As of May 2005, it's been 10 years since Better than Ezra bounded up the charts with the unsinkable hit "Good," which is just about long enough for modern rock fans--especially the ones who picked up 2001's crummy Closer--to mentally file the band in a "moment has passed" category. With the release of Before the Robots, though, comes the need to reshuffle the played-out deck. The first single, a re-done "Lifetime," effectively rescues a really good story-song from potential oblivion by sending in an un-soupy acoustic guitar and Kevin Griffin's more inspired vocal; "A Southern Thang" tips a straw hat to the Louisiana swamps the band emerged from with a rip-it-up riff; and the aptly titled "Juicy" chugs along a funkified track that veers daringly close to disco. For a threesome on the brink of been-there-done-that, Before the Robots represents a bold but pleasingly poppy rebound. --Tammy La Gorce