We Ragazzi - The Ache

Title: The Ache Artist: We Ragazzi Release Date: 11/5/2002 Re-Released On: 11/19/2002 Label: Self-Starter UPC: 687474060022 Genre: Rock Styles: Psychedelic, Garage Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock Moods: Energetic, Freewheeling, Raucous, Boisterous, Confident, Fun, Playful, Aggressive, Fiery, Irreverent, Rousing, Uncompromising, Quirky Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. I Want You 2 Love Me So Much I Can't Stand Up
2. Forever Surrender 2 U
3. The Ache
4. The Cure
5. Sickest Thoughts I Ever Had
6. Burn 4 U
7. Forever in the First Stages of Love
8. A Lonesome 2 Nite
9. I Was So Goddamned

Year Type Label Catalog # 2002 CD Self-Starter 25

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The Ache is the follow-up to the 1997 album Suicide Sound System, a fuzzy little thing of much popularity in We Ragazzi's hometown Chicago no wave scene. Since then the band has broken up, re-formed with a new drummer (Timothy McConville), and set about on a more moody, late-Blonde Redhead-informed sound. The Ache also owes something to the New York City's 2002 electro revival with driving keyboards, sneering vocals, and utterly danceable beats. Lead singer Tony Rolando's nasal Jagger is overbearing on songs like "Forever Surrender 2 U" and "The Ache," where gallop drums and a churned piano try hard, but fail to compete. Later in the album, with "Sickest Thoughts I Ever Had" and "Burn 4 U," the fuzzed-out keys form a thicker support for Rolando and the whole thing rocks together with the power of a band making exactly the music it ought to be. If the keys weren't so over-simplified and Rolando would let off a bit of mojo, We Ragazzi could be darlings once again. ~ Daphne Carr, All Music Guide

Name Credits Colleen Burke Synthesizer, Vocals (Background), Piano Jeff Boyd Engineer Michael Lenzi Vocals (Background) Mike Hagler Mastering Sue Roth Vocals (Background) Tony Rolando Vocals, Mixing, Guitar, Engineer, Synthesizer We Ragazzi Producer