Gigantic [CD-single]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Reissue of the classic 1988 EP from the hugely influential indie act. Featuring re-workings of 2 of the band's favorite tracks whose original versions appeared on their landmark 1988 debut album 'Surfer Rosa'. Includes live versions of 'Vamos' and 'Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)'. Slimline jewel case.

Forts
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • What's the matter with the world?
  • Wunderkammer!
 Forts
The Boggs
Manufacturer: Gigantic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000OHZK18
Release Date: 2007-05-08

Tracks:

  1. Forts
  2. Remember the Orphans
  3. Little Windows
  4. One Year On
  5. Arm in Arm
  6. Bookends
  7. After the Day
  8. Passage
  9. So I So You
  10. Melanie in the White Coat
  11. If We Want (We Can)
  12. Poor Things
  13. Holiday

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What's the matter with the world?.......2007-07-19

That the Boggs aren't mega-gigantuant superstars makes me a little sad.
This is some of the most inventive music out there.
I'm so very sad.

5 out of 5 stars Wunderkammer!.......2007-06-13

We're fort-uitous enough to have a new album from The Boggs! Ugh, sorry. Anyway Forts is a glorious, diverse collection of songs. There's a playful twee sweetness on the surface that'll pique any Beat Happening fan's interest, but it's balanced with a certain sense of gravity. And that gravity is in turn balanced by recklessness. There's drifting away and rocking out...there's tight, catchy songwriting embedded in a ramshackle, throw-it-all-togetherness...there's guitar and violin and feedback and probably people banging on various sizes of trash cans. There is a lot going on in this record, to say the least, but before you write it off as just a cluttered and confused wonder-closet of styles and sounds like some foolish reviewers may do, think about the title: a fort can be both a child's backyard play project and a serious place of refuge in an adult world. The Boggs are building up and tearing down all kinds of forts here, forts appropriate for kiddie daydreams, for punk teenage rebelliousness, for sober adult wisdom. So while each of these songs feels like an individual project--the best of which could spawn albums and albums around themselves (I'm partial to the gorgeous "One Year On" and the awesomely noisy "Melanie in the White Coat")--the final collective product succeeds wildly, too. It's new. It's different. It's worthy of many conversations.
This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • great beginning
  • Rock Solid Album
  • there when it began...
  • An old geezer digs it
  • just plain awesome
 This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic
Minus the Bear
Manufacturer: Suicide Squeeze
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005QDG8
Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

  1. Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked
  2. Lemurs, Man, Lemurs
  3. Just Kickin' It Like A Wild Donkey
  4. Potato Juice & Liquid Bread
  5. Pantsuit... Uggghhh
  6. Untitled
  7. Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars great beginning.......2007-03-17

The band definitely made progress after this ep, but it is very much Minus the Bear and there are a lot of similarities between this and Highly Refined Pirates. As usual they cannot be placed in any one genre (try indie, dance, electronic, ambient, etc.) which is the reason their sound is celebrated as being fresh and original. Dave Knudson is by far one of the most influential guitar players in indie/pop music today.

5 out of 5 stars Rock Solid Album.......2006-12-08

The first time I ever heard minus the bear was when I was working at our college radio station during undergrad. I immediately fell in love with their catchy tunes, clever track titles, and unique style.

Some of my favorite tracks include:
"Hey wanna throw up? Get me naked"
"Just kickin' it like a wild donkey"

One of the styles that truly differentiates Minus the Bear from the rest of the indie rock scene is their creative use of "tapping", which is a technique used to produce notes on a guitar or other string instrument by deftly pressing the fingering you wish on the fretboard. [......] explains it better. The bottom line is that it's a great sound, and you won't hear it anywhere else in the indie world.

5 out of 5 stars there when it began..........2005-07-27

WOW!! What a blast from the past. I was there when Minus the Bear played the Bellevue (WA) kids club...or something like that. Bunch of 13 & 14 year-olds jammed into a small house rockin' to my buddy cory (basist). They've come along way. And no at this point they didn't take themselves serious. They had no label, no manager, no money, but they were having a lot of fun.

5 out of 5 stars An old geezer digs it.......2004-07-01

I'm an older music listener who prefers the prog-rock of the 70's, psychedelia of the 60's and classic/bebop jazz of the 40's & 50's over most other styles of music. I loathe commercial radio and the cookie cutter trash that's passed off as good music. But, sadly, it's always been that way. Most folks actually believe that just because it's popular, it's good. No, no, no.
I'll also add that the whole emo thing bored me immediately so I didn't bother to listen, but, this band here, whoa, this band, on first listen might be misconstrued as a boring emo band, but no. Upon further listening, these young cats rock. MTB may very well, with their ethereal twists and turns and bullet sharp aim at a shaky target be on the verge of starting the next phase of modern progressive rock. Yes, it's modern, and I never thought I'd find myself liking anything modern, but I'm captured. Good news is, these guys are too good to be played on crummy product-pop radio and that, although they won't get rich, will keep them creative and intense. I hope they stay together and continue to progress. (Refering to this album and Highly Refined Pirates)
Long live Minus The Bear!

5 out of 5 stars just plain awesome.......2004-03-15

This is one of the most creative cd I have ever heard. This is an awesome chill out/driving cd (or at least, i listen to it while im driving). I picked up Minus the Bear on a reccomendation from a friend and its been in my cd player since. My personal faviorte track off of "This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic" is the last track, although I like the entire thing really as it flows together.

On another note, I like how this band doesnt take themselves to seriously (just look at their song titles) and yet manages too make some awesome music in the process
The Cloud Room
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Return Of The Thin White Duke
  • Not bad, not great
  • A Few Words
  • A step above The Killers, a step below Arcade Fire
  • Finally Another Group To Get Excited About
 The Cloud Room
The Cloud Room
Manufacturer: Gigantic
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0007ZSHBW
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

  1. Hey Now Now
  2. Waterfall
  3. Blackout!
  4. Devoured in Peace
  5. Sunlight Song
  6. Beautiful Mess
  7. The Hunger
  8. O My Love
  9. Blue Jean
  10. Sunlight Reprise
  11. We Sleep in the Ocean

Album Description

The swagger of Gainsbourg, the pulse and melancholy of New Order, a voice that sounds like Peter Murphy trying to sing like David Bowie, The Cloud Room is a young Brooklyn based band striving to write songs that will go toe to toe with your record collection, toe to toe with your heart and toe to toe with your hips.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Return Of The Thin White Duke.......2006-09-22

I saw this group open for Muse in New York and I never heard of them before but was knocked off my chair. They had a terrific combination of my favorite NY groups like The Strokes, Clap Your Hands and say Yeah and Interpol and there frontman sounded reminiscent of the man sitting right across from me in the balcony. Yep. David Bowie himself was there watching The Cloud Room! I picked up the CD and have not stopped humming it; to the chagrin of my girlfriend. I consider it revenge for the months she hummed "Time Is Running Out".

3 out of 5 stars Not bad, not great.......2006-04-09

After the first few songs the cd does lose spirit and like another review said toward the end you really feel the filler factor. Had a chance to see them with Film School at the Mercury in NY but after I got the CD I passed.

4 out of 5 stars A Few Words.......2006-02-19

This is what Bloc Party would sound like if they were good.

4 out of 5 stars A step above The Killers, a step below Arcade Fire.......2006-01-27

I learned about this band through a friend at work. Found them incredibly interesting at first, when I heard a demo of "Sunlight Song". The track came across as relatively dark, slightly reminding of the neo-psychodelic and shoegazing sounds of the early nineties. But the rest of the album turned out to be more along the lines of the neo-punk pop sound that became so popular during 2004 and 2005. It wore out after a while, the good thing being that it's just over 30 minutes long, so you almost don't notice it. Overall it's pretty good, largely due to the singer's voice, which is surrounded by a mysterious halo of sorts. Their music lies a step above The Killers and Franz Ferdinand, but a step below The Arcade Fire. I give the album 4 stars as a whole.

4 out of 5 stars Finally Another Group To Get Excited About.......2005-09-28

Something that the other reviewers haven't touched on is the best part of this cd. The emotional punch. This is the first cd to come close to the emotional high that had everyone falling in love with Arcade Fire. On the whole The Coud Room's cd isn't as good, but 5 or 6 songs are. I find the dancey ones to be limp, so many bands do that so much better. Hopefully they'll dump that side for their next cd, but finally another group to get excited about!
The String Quartet Tribute to Pixies
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • better than expected
  • Perfect for people who like the pixies and string quartets
 The String Quartet Tribute to Pixies

Manufacturer: Vitamin Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002Y4TRY
Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

  1. Monkey Gone To Heaven
  2. Where Is My Mind?
  3. Gigantic
  4. Cactus
  5. Debaser
  6. Here Comes Your Man
  7. Wave Of Mutilation
  8. Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons
  9. Caribou
  10. Velouria
  11. Gouge Away
  12. Burned For Good

Product Description

1. Monkey Gone To Heaven
2. Where Is My Mind
3. Gigantic
4. Cactus
5. Debaser
6. Here Comes Your Man
7. Wave Of Mutilation
8. Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons
9. Caribou
10. Velouria

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars better than expected .......2005-02-20

Before this album, I had never bought a String Quartet tribute album and tended to overlook them as I normally do with tribute albums. I had been familiar with them through their full album tribute of Radiohead's OK Computer which I've heard and was very impressed by. However I still never bought anything by them as from observation they seemed to pay tribute to both some of the best artists in this generation (The Smiths, The Cure, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and Elliott Smith for example), yet also some of the worst (Simple Plan, Godsmack, P.O.D., Linkin Park, etc. etc. etc.) and that made me feel less able to judge them as a whole.

However when I saw this album in a store how the Pixies being my favorite band, I bought it without giving it a second's thought and I listened to it immeditely when I got home. After my initial listen I found the album to be very interesting and enjoyable. The songs they selected (mostly from Surfer Rosa and Doolittle) are for the majority all are the best known Pixies songs that you'd find on either on of the best of compilations or hear at one of the reunion shows. The only expection to that is the presence of "Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons" from Trompe le Monde which will stick out jarringly in the track listing to any non casual listener of the Pixies. However, it transforms very well into a classical piece and I would include it along with "Debaser", "Where is My Mind?", and "Velouria" as the best covers on the album.

On the opposite, this album does have it's share of negatives, and it's unfortunate that most of them are from sloppy errors not within the music, but on the packaging. First off the track listing displayed on the back cover and 2 times in the booklet is wrong. I assume this has to do with a last minute change to the track listing after the packaging has been printed. Whatever the case may be (being too cheap to reprint it?), this error is very unprofessional. Also on the back cover the album description states "as virtuous string players cut to the edgy essence of 'Bone Machine'" when Bone Machine isn't even on the album. Besides those frusturating unforgivable errors, my only complaint musically is that the original track by the quartet on this album "Burned for Good" while good in it's own right simply doesn't fit in here and lessens the feeling of the album as a whole. These "original compositions" appear to be on every quartet release, so I guess it's just something that the band enjoys to do regardless of the result. Another semi-complaint is that there isn't more songs from albums besides Surfer Rosa and Doolittle or songs that are lesser known but favorites of devoted fans. "Levitate Me" would have been great in my opinion in this classical form. As well as "Is She Weird?", "No. 13 Baby", and "Into the White". So in summary I say that no matter if you're a new or casual Pixies fan whom the Wave of Mutilation compilation was your first Pixies release, or a hardcore Pixies fan and you don't completely hate classical music, I think you will enjoy this album.

Here's the correct track listing...
1. Here Comes Your Man [Doolittle]
2. Gigantic [Surfer Rosa]
3. Caribou [Come on Pilgrim]
4. Debaser [Doolittle]
5. Cactus [Surfer Rosa]
6. Velouria [Bossanova]
7. Gouge Away [Doolittle]
8. Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons [Trompe le Monde]
9. Wave of Mutilation [Doolittle]
10. Monkey Gone to Heaven [Doolittle]
11. Where is my Mind? [Surfer Rosa]
12. Burned for Good (original composition)

4 out of 5 stars Perfect for people who like the pixies and string quartets.......2005-01-25

I heard this on KCRW the other day - it was the arrangement for 'Here comes you man' and it was great fun. This album has lots of swell possibilities.
Gaame
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Wake Up and Drum
  • LISTEN TO IT, ADORE IT, AND SEE IT LIVE!!!!
  • Incredible!
 Gaame
Aa
Manufacturer: Gigantic
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ASIN: B000NOK0SU
Release Date: 2007-04-24

Tracks:

  1. Deathmask
  2. Best of Seven
  3. Flag Day
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  7. Thirteen
  8. Walk Again
  9. Time In
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wake Up and Drum.......2007-06-08

This is the kind of frenetic, heart-and-mind-pounding newness that just might save our sad-sack post-slacker selves. Aa teases with pulsing, yelping, bleeping, blooping...tap-tap-tapping....then actually follows through with pounding pounding screaming release! This album is what music requires of us today: challenging, exciting, awakening. Just when things start to get beautiful, they get vitally noisy again. GAame nearly captures the frenzy of the live shows that've made Aa such a demolishing Brooklyn force: it's an important record, and it's more important to go see these dudes. According to Thurston Moore: "the kindsa sounds that young people should be making and enjoying in bistros from here to Kalamazoo" -ok Thurs, but let's listen to it while we form our first faint cries of revolution, too. WAKE UP and drum, young people!

5 out of 5 stars LISTEN TO IT, ADORE IT, AND SEE IT LIVE!!!!.......2007-05-03

Short and sweet, Gaame has a wonderful atmosphere, with amazing, pounding & chant driven moments, alongside lush, keyboard and feedback filled noise-gasms..... I am amazed that this album posseses the energy that they deliver in live performance (a very hard feat, if you have ever seen them.) AND THE DVD IS INCREDIBLE!!! Supplying a music video for every song and tons .... TONS of live footage, these guys are truly giving the fans everything they could ask for. BUYITBUYITBUYIT!!!!

5 out of 5 stars Incredible!.......2007-05-01

Live, this band is absolutely incredible, fresh & exciting. This disc captures that impact. However I'd hope you can enjoy it either way, with or without the live experience. 3 drummers, 1 keyboardist and semi-gutteral chanting. Tribal, psychedelic, heavy, raw, hardcore, high energy, high impact, original. I personally listened to it 7 times today during my work commute. Recommended!
The Band That Sucked the Life Out of Rock 'n Roll and Killed Itself in the Process
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    Some Action
    Manufacturer: Gigantic
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    ASIN: B000HCPSWQ
    Release Date: 2006-10-03

    Tracks:

    1. Live and Learn
    2. Take Your Medicine
    3. Out of Here
    4. Done with You
    5. STAB
    6. What's It Gonna Take
    7. Give It Back to the Animals
    8. Don't You Look for Me
    9. Double Cross My Heart
    10. In the Shit
    11. Fine China

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    Broken Bottles, broken instruments, broken bones, broken hearts - the only thing Some Action might ever fix is rock and roll. "This is what a real punk rock band should sound like" - Maximum Rock n Roll
    Stand Out
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Looks Like Prince, Sounds Like Hendrix...
    • great!
    • is not trash!
    		 Stand Out
    Ladell McLin
    Manufacturer: Gigantic
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    ASIN: B0009S2TBQ
    Release Date: 2005-07-12

    Tracks:

    1. Rich Man's Lounge
    2. Hooked
    3. Stand Out
    4. House I Built
    5. Mona Lisa
    6. Comin' At Ya
    7. Play The Blues 4 U
    8. TNT
    9. Cold In China
    10. Universe

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Looks Like Prince, Sounds Like Hendrix..........2005-08-18

    ...not a bad thing in either respect, but I am hopeful that Ladell steps out a bit more on future releases.

    Guitarwise, McLin is fantastic...an amazing tone, and there's some real power in his playing...vocally, he sounds way too much like Hendrix, in his inflection and his propensity to talk his way through songs.

    Good cover of Albert King's "I'll Play the Blues 4U," and while he got the chops down fine on "TNT," give me AC/DC's rendering over it.

    "Rich Man's Lounge" is a good track, and in fact they're all well done, and I dig the power trio thing McLin's got going.

    I expect we'll hear a whole lot more from this one.

    5 out of 5 stars great!.......2005-08-13

    This album rocks! I am not going to pick it apart and detail every song. Buy the album, play it, and enjoy. 'nuf said

    5 out of 5 stars is not trash!.......2005-08-06

    The first track says it all, Ladell is an awesome guitar slinger. I am very happy with it. His guitar work is blistering when needed and full of emotion. HE is the real deal. Way to go McLin!
    All Songs Written by: Human Television
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Indie Pop that delivers in the catchy department
    • A Rose By Any Other Name
    		 All Songs Written by: Human Television
    Human Television
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    ASIN: B0002VEQW0
    Release Date: 2004-09-21

    Tracks:

    1. Saw You Walking By
    2. Tell Me What You Want
    3. I Forgot
    4. Yeah Right
    5. Automoblie
    6. Cars Are Weird
    7. Sick With Redundancy Check

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Indie Pop that delivers in the catchy department.......2006-07-04

    These songs are really catchy. It takes me back to a lot of my favorite indie pop of the 80's and 90's. I hear early REM, The Feelies, The Barnabys, The Wedding Present, The Connells, The Bats, The Chills and other great bands when I hear this album, but Human Television really makes the sound their own at the same time. Jangly guitar is prevalent, but they also can rock. The vocals aren't very unique but are just sour enough to complement the poppiness of their songs perfectly.

    4 out of 5 stars A Rose By Any Other Name.......2005-02-06

    With a name like Human Television, you might think this Philly-by-way-of-Gainsville quartet sounds like the Human League or Television. But what's in a name anyway? On their debut EP, they sound more like REM--minus Michael Stipe's vocals--or the Wedding Present--minus (some of) the speed. If you like jangle: they're the band for you. At times, they even remind me of New Zealand's Chills, one of the best jangle bands of all time. That said, I think I prefer their harder-edged material to the soft. Here's hoping their first full-length has more songs like the driving "Sick With Redundancy Check" than poppy "Saw You Walking By."
    Look at Who You're Talking To
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Taking less is more to the extreme
    • College radio, circa 1985, revisited
    • Near Perfect Pop
    		 Look at Who You're Talking To
    Human Television
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    ASIN: B000F1HGQA
    Release Date: 2006-05-02

    Tracks:

    1. I'm Moving On
    2. Ten Minutes
    3. Mars Red Rust
    4. On and On
    5. I Laughed
    6. People Talking
    7. Tonight's the Night
    8. Such a Trip
    9. Inconsistent
    10. In Front of the House

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Taking less is more to the extreme.......2006-07-10

    Though it isn't an epic masterpiece by any standards, this sure is one beautifully crafted slab of 80s tinged Jangle Pop (and without any cheesy 80s drum sound!). Full of really catchy melodies and a very dreamlike atmosphere. Granted, a few people are likely to complain about the cretin simplicity behind the lyrics/vocals, But within the context of the music, they give the album a very down to earth, honest feeling. Lastly, I'd like to praise the album on it's relatively short length, since it seems to end right before it grows tiresone.

    Overall, It's 39 minutes of high quatlity ear candy. Nothing more. Nothing less.

    3 out of 5 stars College radio, circa 1985, revisited .......2006-06-09

    This reminds me on most of its tracks not of REM (to whom they've been compared) so much as lesser-known bands from the Athens GA art-postpunk-jangle scene of the mid-80s, who combined winsome vocals and chiming guitars with uneasy arrangements and a penchant for experimenting with the three-minute folk-pop-college radio, vaguely 60s-inspired, standard form. Two songs join REM's pep to the Feelies' propulsion quite winningly. They stand out.

    The others, however, drift into territory more hazy, such as Rain Parade, Swimming Pool Qs, or the Reivers (Zeitgeist) all toyed with in their smaller regional heydays two decades ago. That is, unassuming vocals--which here unfortunately hold back the potential in the band's music, as the voices are too hesitant and untutored--join to mid-tempo beats mixed with diffused texture that blurs the delivery of words and music. Human Television is a bit too hesitant here. For the album to stick, it needs more assertion and depth than the vocalists give the music here. Not that lack of technical perfection's always a handicap in indie rock; you need a sense of attitude or emotion, however, that this band's not yet mastered. The singing needs to be more memorable.

    If the band can project a more forceful vocal presence, they should go farther in maximizing the talent that their songs reveal. As they're just warming up their career, I hope they will add a bit more character to their singing, and stick around for awhile--these are inviting songs that will welcome you back.

    4 out of 5 stars Near Perfect Pop.......2006-05-18

    Melodic perfection. They play rickenbackers, love the Violent Femmes and the Smiths, are barely out of high school and, they are one of the most important bands in the USA.
    Wanda Sa com Joao Donato
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • Buy this for Donato...
    		 Wanda Sa com Joao Donato
    Wanda Sa , and Joao Donato
    Manufacturer: Gigantic Entertainment
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00029CV8I
    Release Date: 2004-08-23

    Tracks:

    1. Minha Saudade
    2. Nao Tem Nada, Nao
    3. Perdido/Samba Torto
    4. Falta de Ar
    5. Cartao de Visita
    6. There Will Never Be Another You
    7. Receita de Samba
    8. Sambou, Sambou
    9. O Que E Amar
    10. Ra
    11. But Not for Me
    12. Daquele Amor, Nem Me Fale
    13. E Com Esse Que Eu Vou
    14. Quem Diz Que Sabe

    Album Details

    Guests: Joao Donato (Piano and Arrangements), Robertinho Silva(Drums and Percussion), J.t.meirelles( Sax-tenor and Flute),jamil Joans(Bass) and Kazuo Yoshida(Percussion).

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Buy this for Donato..........2007-03-25

    Wanda's okay -- goes a little flat sometimes -- not the greatest voice in the world either, but Joao Donato (GET HIS OTHER ALBUMS!!!!!) does mighty good stuff backing her.

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