Search - Takeovers :: Bad Football

Takeovers
Bad Football
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. You're at It
2. Little Green Onion Man
3. Father's Favorite Temperature
4. Molly & Zack
5. Pretty Not Bad
6. Smokestack Bellowing Stars
7. I Can See My Dog
8. The Jester of Helpmeat
9. Kicks at the Gym
10. Music for Us
11. The Year Nobody Died
12. My Will

CD Details

All Artists: Takeovers
Title: Bad Football
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Off Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 6/12/2007
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 656605809328

Synopsis

Album Description

Welcome to the second dose of The Takeovers, courtesy of two members of Guided By Voices: The legendary Robert Pollard and the less so Chris Slusarenko. The newest release, Bad Football, finds the boys collaborating again and coming up with a slightly more song-oriented album every bit as perverse as 2006's Turn to Red. Calling on likeminded bedfellows like Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Tad Doyle (Tad), John Moen (The Decemberists) and Dan Peters (Mudhoney) to help follow their tuneful and psychedelic hearts, the Takeovers waste no time pushing aside the sophomore curse. In fact, if you like John, Paul, the bass player from Wire and/or Guided By Voices, you're in good hands with Bad Football.

CD Reviews

More accessible, more tuneful

Brian Conley | Hebron, KY USA | 06/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"More accessible than the first album, just as experimental in spots, this "Takeovers" album hits all the right notes. The first half of the album hits us with some amazing pop-and-rock songs, the second half finds Pollard's sense of humor and the Takeovers sensibility for experimentalism taking center stage for numbers like "Kicks as the Gym" and "Music for Us". The album closer "My Will" brings to mind songs from GBV circa the early-90s with it's powerful hook and noisy production values. Great record!"