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The enhanced portion of this release contains "making of" video.
The bowler-hatted, three-piece-suit-wearing figure on the cover of Alkaline Trio's CRIMSON seems emblematic. The edgy, emo-tinged pop-punk group is dressed up a bit here, sporting a wherewithal and sophistication that distinguishes this 2005 release from its previous efforts. In part, this is thanks to producer Jerry Finn (of Green Day and Blink 182 fame), who gives the album an impeccable razor-like sheen, but the clincher on CRIMSON is the quality of the tunes.
Nearly every cut here teems with memorable pop hooks integrated into tight song structures. But while sing-along choruses ring out for miles, harmonies chime, and bright guitar lines color the spaces in between, the band never sacrifices its trademark thunder. Alkaline Trio rocks plenty hard on CRIMSON: "The Poison" is a direct, punk-inspired tune, and a nu-metal riff crunches between the verses of "Time to Waste" before opening into a melodic chorus. And though "Burn," with its slow, spacious melody, recalls Love & Rockets-era post-punk, there is plenty of the familiar Alkaline Trio sound on songs like "Dethbed" and "Fall Victim." CRIMSON is the mark of a group underscoring its strengths by pushing forward in directions both familiar and new.
Alkaline Trio: Matt Skiba (vocals, guitar); Daniel Andriano (vocals, bass guitar); Derek Grant (vocals, drums).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Rolling Stone (No. 975, p.74) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[CRIMSON] finds these Chicago boys delivering action-packed guitar grooves and hooky, harmonized choruses... "
Spin (p.105) - "[T]he real attraction here is the music, which sounds as dramatic as the imagery." - Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly (No. 821/822, pp.136-9) - "[CRIMSON makes] more room for spooky keyboard ooze and swinging rhythms than [the pop-punk band's] previous full-lengths..." - Grade: B+
CMJ (No. 914, p.6) - "Producer Jerry Finn...helps blend the gloomy atmospherics with the band's trademark emo-pop hooks." Alkaline Trio Crimson Songs Crimson Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Good Cd
Alkaline Trio brings us a little softer version of what there about. Still haunting lyrics just a slower than what i expected. Still an amazing CD, but Good Mourning the one berfore is still my fav.
Submitted by MAsterp2124 (Jupiter)
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Wow...
Such a unique sound, this album is great... best songs are 'burn' and 'dethbed' but all the songs are quality.
Submitted by shaun (london)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. AMAZING!
DON'T THINK JUST BUY NOW!
Submitted by SHARC (TACOMA, WA) 
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produced by the man,jerry finn ,this album is a little different but everyone should check it out even if you are not a fan. it is brilliant
Submitted by rancidpunx3 (kv, missouri, usa)
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The Best In A While
The lyrics are heart felt, loved by alk3 and they can't go wrong.
Take the time to listen.
Submitted by tizmekw (Perth, W.A, Aus)
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Purchase Crimson CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Alkaline Trio From Here To Infirmary CD (2001)
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This three-piece punk outfit comes out with all guns blazing on FROM HERE TO INFIRMARY. Throughout the album, the Alkaline Trio maintains a blazing, three-chord barrage whose stylistic pedigree runs through Green Day all the way back to first-generation punks like the Buzzcocks.
For an accurate picture of the Trio's approach, picture the hard-hitting hooks of a Blink 182 mated with intelligent lyrics (a rare enough commodity in heavy rock to begin with) that ...
| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo "When the Stars Go Blue," and a great, leering rendition of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine."
Somewhat more mysteriously, Rolling Stone Ron Wood also turns up on what sounds dangerously close to a lounge version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing," but this minor faux pas is redeemed by the Irish folk medley "Joy of Life/Trout in the Bath" which arguably features more full-on Irishness than ...
| | Alkaline Trio Good Mourning CD (2003)
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Though most of the songs on the Alkaline Trio's GOOD MOURNING don't seem to be literally about death, titles like "Fatally Yours" and "All On Black" (not to mention the pictures of crosses and white lilies that adorn the disc's packaging) suggest a rather fatalistic listening experience. In this case, first impressions are only partly accurate. Over the course of a half-dozen solid albums, the Alkaline Trio has positioned itself as a kind of anti-Blink 182; sonically, the band deals in the same stripped-down vocal harmony-laden pop-punk, but trades the lyrical frat boy frivolity for stark, serious ...
| | Rise Against Siren Song Of The Counter Culture CD (2004)
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For its third full-length, Rise Against side steps the pop-punk breakup music saturating the scene in 2004. Instead, the Chicago ...
| | Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil CD (2005)
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Even though Avenged Sevenfold's first two albums clearly got them lumped into the emo camp, the California quintet always hinted at the heavy metal influence of bands like Iron Maiden. With their major-label debut CITY OF EVIL, not only have they fleshed out these tendencies via the intricate riffing of dual guitarists Zacky Vengeance and Synyster Gates, but they've begun to dabble with more intricate, prog-like song structures. And with singer M. Shadows recovering from vocal chord surgery, he employs a considerably more melodic approach.
The first half of CITY cleaves to what longtime fans have come to expect: dive-bombing call-and-response riffing and furious double-bass-drum attacks, peppering cuts like the soaring "Burn It Down" and the equally ferocious "Blinded in Chains." Following the power-ballad tendencies of "Seize the Day," with its subtle piano accompaniment and Shadow's full-bodied crooning, things get really interesting. Song lengths start to hover around the seven-to-nine-minute mark, and intriguing nuances come into play, like the boys' choir and 14-piece ...
| | Buckcherry 15 CD (2006)
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| | Christmas Live At Massey Hall CD (1999) (Import) Import; Canada
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Recorded live at Massey Hall in Toronto on September 23, 1971, this album features a set by the Oshawa-based band Christmas. The album contains two songs from the Heritage album, "Point Blank" and "Blues on an Iceberg"; one 18-minute, 36-second piece entitled "Beyond the Fields We Know" ...
| | Malcolm Middleton 5:14 Fluxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine CD (2003)
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Arab Strap's Malcolm Middleton steps in front of the mike for this collection, which casts the usual Strap themes -- depression, self-loathing, loneliness -- over brittle stabs of acoustic guitar accentuated with swirls of atmospheric keyboards and the occasional female harmony (courtesy of Eva's Jenny Reave; the album also features contributions from Mogwai guy Barry Burns). According to the folks at Chemikal Underground, 5: 14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine began as a Middleton home recording project before its fleshing out. But even with gentle percussion or the aforementioned synth squiggles, the album is still intensely personal -- Middleton's accented mumble is almost an aside to himself that listeners just happen to overhear. Sometimes, it's personal to the point of awkwardness. "Where are you tonight?" he wonders in the fragile "Cold Winter." ...
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| | Turquoise Further Adventures Of Flossie Fillett-The Complete Recordings CD (2006) (Import) United Kingdom
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A quick listen to Turquoise with no knowledge of their background will surely bring two names immediately to mind: the Kinks and the Who. So, it should be no surprise that Turquoise were not only influenced by their British peers but were close associates, friends of Ray and Dave Davies, produced by Dave for their first demos -- when the band was still known as "the Brood" -- and produced by Keith Moon and John Entwistle for their second round of pre-professional recordings. Turquoise released two singles for Decca in 1968 before disbanding and those two singles, like much British pop-psych, earned them a cult of some size, eventually leading to Rev-Ola's 2006 release of The Further Adventures of Flossie Fillett: The Complete Recordings which collects both sides of those two singles -- "53 Summer Street"/"The Tales of Flossie Fillett" and "Woodstock"/"Saynia" -- along with all the other demos, unreleased cuts and alternate takes the group left behind. More than any other band from the late '60s, Turquoise modeled themselves after mid-period Kinks, circa Something Else and Village Green Preservation Society to the extent that singer/songwriter Jeff Peters (who wrote almost all of the band's recorded work, usually in collaboration with Ewan Stephens) even penned his own tune called "Village Green." Like the Kinks, Turquoise were distinctly, defiantly British in subject matter and approach -- among their unreleased items is a knees-up stomp-along called "Sunday Best" reminiscent of the Small Faces (and oddly prescient of Blur's "Sunday Sunday") -- often sounding fey and campy yet managing to stay away from being overtly twee, and even if their melodies could sigh and swirl in psychedelic colors, they never were that trippy: they were grounded by acoustic guitars that jangled like Ray Davies' on Something Else and they had ragged harmonies and a pop sense reminiscent of the brothers Davies. And when Turquoise broke free of the Kinks -- as on the absolutely terrific "Woodstock" which barrels forward on a moddish Motown beat and has a wicked Dylan impression on the chorus -- they're quite terrific, ...
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