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Built on Squares
Starlight Mints
Built on Squares
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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All Artists: Starlight Mints
Title: Built on Squares
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Play It Again Sam
Original Release Date: 1/1/2003
Re-Release Date: 5/20/2003
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 805551012126, 9332727003783

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Timothy P. from SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Reviewed on 3/4/2011...
Great CD. I personally liked their previous CD better (The dream that stuff that dreams was made of) better, but this is a good follow-up.

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Best pain ever
Meds | California, USA | 08/05/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was amazed by the album. The sounds were so different from what I was used to. I first heard "Brass Digger" on a complication CD, and I expected more songs like it on "Built on Squares." Well, it turns out their usual sound is not much like "Brass Digger." It's better. It all works in a wonderful discordant way. My favorites are "Black Cat," "Goldstar," and "Irene."



This is one of the two CDs that regularily hijacks my creativity. It's impossible to disengage my mind from it. I have no choice but to sit and listen in awe."
New and Improved Music
Meds | 12/09/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I hardly know where to begin on this review. My 18-year old daughter brought home the cd after hearing them in concert as an opening act for the Flaming Lips. I was immediately taken with it and them and found myself compelled to play it over and over. Partly because it was so good and partly because I couldn't get over how innovative and different it was. "Built On Squares" has made it difficult to go back to straight pop songs with straight lyrics, for I am inexplicably drawn to their quirky and contagious sounds.



I will have to go out and buy my own copy because I am tired of waiting my turn to borrow hers. And I am going to have to buy several copies because I keep thinking of friends who would love this but might not hear about it through their regular sources. I am even sending one to a friend in France. We have the advantage of having them be from our area, although that doesn't mean they play here often. I'd not even heard of them until recently. And now I can't get them out of my head.



I don't know the names of all the songs to write in much detail, but "Pages" is one of my favorites. I always have to get up and move when it comes on. Now I have to go out and buy their first cd and I look forward to seeing what else they come up with. A great band, with an outstanding cd and a potentially phenomenal future.



UPDATE - Still listening to this cd as of April 2006. After buying several copies for friends, I did give one to my French friend when visiting him last month in Paris. He and his amis loved it as well and played it constantly during my visit. (And I'd brought them 5 new cd's.) Just to put it in perspective, every year I choose one upbeat, remarkable, innovative cd to buy in bulk and give away as gifts to family and friends that might not otherwise glom onto its existence. This was the give-away cd of that year.



Looking forward to their newest cd and their continuted success.

BigSis26

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