Track Listings (16) - Disc #1| All Artists: Makers Title: Rock Star God Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sub Pop Original Release Date: 4/18/2000 Release Date: 4/18/2000 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Hardcore & Punk, Indie & Lo-Fi, Oldies Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 098787048728 |
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Rock Star God is the latest chapter in the manifest destiny of this high-octane garage band from the hinterlands of Eastern Washington. Driven by short attention spans and a clear desire to explore new territory, the Maker... more » |
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Amazon.com Rock Star God is the latest chapter in the manifest destiny of this high-octane garage band from the hinterlands of Eastern Washington. Driven by short attention spans and a clear desire to explore new territory, the Makers are constantly redefining and expanding their sound along with their wardrobes. In this ode to the glory days of album rock, the group navigates waters previously explored by such artists as the Who, the Kinks, and David Bowie. Their 55-minute opus is a concept album in the loosest possible terms. Sure, there is a running theme (the joys and horrors associated with stardom and the rock & roll lifestyle), but the songs are not so closely tethered as to make them unable to stand on their own. The album represents something like a quantum leap for the band in the songwriting department. Tough rabble-rousers like "A Better Way Down" and "I'm a Concrete Wall" are tempered by some of the most beautiful and affecting ballads--"Texture of a Girl" immediately comes to mind--the Makers have ever written. Whatever art-rock pretenses the band may secretly harbor, this music is still filtered through the same blood-and-guts ethic that crowned the Makers the lords of the modern thrash-punk kingdom in the first place. So don't fret, dear old fans, Rock Star God isn't some downward spiral into '70s prog-rock. Rest assured, the ghosts of the MC5, Questionmark and the Mysterians, and the New York Dolls still have considerable influence on this quartet. And there's plenty of swagger, attitude, and raw nerve here for everyone. --Mike Corrigan Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsWhy isn't this band huge? Tom | Chapel Hill, NC United States | 01/25/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Here's an admittedly bold statement: "Rock Star God" is the best rock album of 2000, and I am simply stunned that it didn't make this band huge, or at least make them a bigger underground presence.Ignore the spurned fans who complain that their old stuff was better: it wasn't. Their old stuff is fun, yes, in a punky, three chords, scream-yourself-hoarse-for-120-seconds kind of way, but this is their finest hour (literally - it's a long album, and I might have cut one song, but who's complaining? A generation ago this would have been considered a double album, and a FINE one).Michael's lyrics are brilliantly fun and often hilarious. "Better Way Down" is the greatest anti-suicide dirge ever; rather than sounding eminently make-fun-of-able by whining "don't kill yourselves," they simply point out how trite, cliched, and lame suicide is ("just remember/ try to look good/ have fun with it/ it's the last cool thing you'll ever do"). "Looking For A Supergirl" is about every man's quest to fall in love with, yes, an actual female superhero (the song is wonderfully filled with comic book references, as Michael yearns to give her "my human torch"), and as for the deliciously hair-bandish "Sex Is Good Food," the name says it all. But just because the songs are sometimes funny doesn't mean this is a gimmick album; these guys are direly serious about what they do, which is: rock, and hard, and well, and thank God for it.Also, this is one of the rare 4-man rock albums that is able to throw in occasional organs, strings, bongos, electric pianos, and female backing singers in ways that actually make the songs better, rather than smaltzy or cluttered.This is a fun, smart, soulful, badly needed album. It would be a shame if this one just fades into obscurity - these boys deserve a big, fat, loudly miked podium from which to announce themselves to the entire world. I just heard that their next album is due out in spring 2002. Bring it on." Base your life around this album! K. Christians | United States | 01/30/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "The Makers rock. Don't believe all the "self-indulgent" review crap you read about these guys - they are the best band out there, and have been for years. Anyone who seriously listens to them can see how this is the REAL Makers. This album shows the true song-writing and musical talent that each member has. I own plenty of albums, and this ranks up with the "classics"." Rock-n-Roll Lives!! sddingman | St. Louis MO | 01/03/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Finally, after years of regurgitating Eddie Vedder (yawn) sound-alike tripe, Seattle offers up real rock-n-roll. Call it glam, call it punk, call it late 60's psychedelic, WHAT EVER! This is the genuine article. They have the guts to roll out a bump and grind rhythm in Metro and have the brains to explore other musical instruments through the album. The irony in Better Way Down is sharp while Give me Back Yesterday is an honest ballad. These guys are the heirs to the throne of the Ramones.Long Live Rock-n-Roll!!"
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