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It's Still Artastic
The Styrenes
It's Still Artastic
Genres: Alternative Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
 
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This is the genuine article? more convincing & more daring?playing host to modern day re-makes & copycats. Although The Hives (The Saints), Strokes (Velvet Underground) & White Stripes (too many to name) are l...  more »

     
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All Artists: The Styrenes
Title: It's Still Artastic
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Label: ROIR
Original Release Date: 7/29/2002
Release Date: 7/29/2002
Genres: Alternative Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Style: Hardcore & Punk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 053436827628

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This is the genuine article? more convincing & more daring?playing host to modern day re-makes & copycats. Although The Hives (The Saints), Strokes (Velvet Underground) & White Stripes (too many to name) are loved for their retro-sound, and are quite good at it, they risk nothing. The Styrenes, on the other hand, experiment with almost every song. The result is indescribable, chaotic, often catchy, and always on-edge. Adventurous and exciting- punk/agro-jazz w/ a tinge of hostility that can only be described as genius. The music on It?s Still Artastic sounds just as idiosyncratic now as it did then, and just as prescient. The rest of the world has yet to catch up. The Cleveland landscape is coming under the microscope again; Pere Ubu, The Electric Eels, & Amoeba (raft boy) (feat. members of the Styrenes) all recently released new albums, Rocket From The Tombs? newest re-issue is selling very well, and Cheetah Chrome is packing the house in Nashville. The time is ripe. "It?s Still Artastic" contains 10 new tracks & 2 new versions of classics. So, even if you already have It?s Artastic (1991) this is in fact an album worth purchasing. Tracks are culled from 1975 all the way through 1998? a wide & varied landscape of The Styrenes? distinctive musical action. Including "Drano In Your Veins" (truly one of the best songs you?ll hear, and one of the most joyously violent songs of all time.), "Girl Crazy," "Jaguar Ride," "Radial Arm Saws," It?s Still Artastic could possibly be the quintessential Cleveland 70s anthem you need in your collection.

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Michael Broach | NYC | 01/16/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"As far as the CLE scene goes, these guys are the most f*@ked up musically--and that is a complement. This is the definitive document of their earlier material. It contains singles, live and unreleased material all the way up through recent stuff (I highly recommend their 1998 album "We care so you don't have to" as the definitive document of their later stuff). The liner notes say that apart from the Paul Marotta (the band's leader) Jim Jones of Pere Ubu, John Morton of the Electric Eels, Anton Fier of the Lounge Lizards, Jaime Klimek of the Mirrors, and of course Mike Hudson of the Pagans all play on this album, which adds even more clout to how wonderfully strange it already is."It's Still Artastic" is worth buying for "Drano in your veins" alone. This song is so joyously violent it should have been on the soundtrack to Fight Club (go to Clepunk.com and read John Morton's interview to learn about the violence)."
Just great!!!
stipe | Croatia | 10/22/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Very important&impressive band!Featuring John Morton(later of Electric EEls,Rocket From The Tombs&Johnny and The Dicks)who was one of the wildest and tallented rock musicians of all times.
If you don't buy this cd,you'll never show this!!!"