Search - Whipsaws :: 60 Watt Avenue

Greetings from Alaska

hans-eric | Seattle, WA | 02/14/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Select records have an unpredictable way of becoming a good friend sometimes. 60 Watt Avenue by The Whipsaws might be an album like that. Here's why I think so...



Track 2, "Jessi Jane," echoes Replacements-inspired twang served up with rollicking, crunchy guitars, punchy backing vocals and lyrics like "Jessi your love is like the wind. I couldn't keep you from the bottle, couldn't keep you from the sin."



Tracks 3, 4, 6 and 13 ("Coming Home", "Stick Around", "Lonesome Joe" & "Seven Long Years") trade ringing guitars for lap steel, strings and keys-driven love and friendship songs equal parts Uncle Tupelo and Some Girls era Rolling Stones.



"There are mysteries that surround you that I don't want to solve" - from Stick Around



"You gotta walk the talk and follow your heart. Take what you need girl and finish what you start." - from Seven Long Years



Track 7, "The War, " arguably the record's high point, unfolds with waves of fuzzed out wah wah guitar blanketing sing-along lyrics of a young person's date with the armed forces.



"When you turn 18 you better join the war. You can find a good team. You can settle the score of who's killing who. And who's taking lives. For democracy. For a President's pride."



The Whipsaws play music like they mean it. If this record doesn't become a good friend it no doubt will remind you of records that may already have.



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Kick A** ROCKnROLL, ALASKA-STYLE

M. Trask | ALASKA | 02/01/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Live it up w/ The Whipsaws, you will not be let down.

Simply great tunes...buy it now...don't wait!!

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