Search - Papas Fritas :: Pop Has Freed Us (CD & Dvd)

Save Your Money!!!

Kevin | 10/01/2003

(2 out of 5 stars)

"After Papas Fritas' "Buidings and Grounds" CD proved to be one of the best 'happy pop' CD's of the year, I was thrilled to get this new release. Sure, it only has 9 new tracks, but I figured they had to be worth the price. Wrong! Maybe 2 of the new tracks are really satisfying, the rest sound like leftovers that weren't good enough to make it onto earlier albums. This CD is just a mish-mash of good and not-so-good tracks from other Papas releases, with some mediocre unreleased tracks (including an extremely lame cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Book of Love") thrown in. Definitely not a labor of love!So if you don't know the band, buy their 2000 release "Buidings and Grounds." And then do yourself a favor and buy Komeda's "What Makes It Go." And The Sugarplastic's "Bang! The Earth is Round." And Jon Brion's "Meaningless." Then you'll really be happy."

Stale French Fries

goldenfeelings | Connecticut | 11/18/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"YUCK!!!
I'm so dissapointed with this haphazard collection of half-baked songs.
I love PF, but these are songs that weren't released for a reason.
They only have three albums in the first place, so there's really not that much material to sift through!
I recommend just buying the albums.
The DVD is Passable (only 3 videos), but the cd is so bad that I cannot give it any better than one star."