Banter

Track Listings

1. Scansion

2. Enmeshed

3. Banter

4. Select the Beam

5. Here, Say

6. Porous

7. Taut

8. Chatter Wasn't

9. Crane Grove and Dark

Tracks:

What I Make Myself Believe
Crossing Over
Broken Moon
Someone Like You
Pendulum
Avalanche
Weight Of The World
When The Lights Go Down
Just To See You
Constant As The Night
All Is Quiet
Until The Well Runs Dry
Rapt In You
Nobody Knows
Waltzing The Shadows

Album Description

Collected from four shows on Roz & Howard Larman's FolkScene radio program in Los Angeles, these warm and stirring performances were aired as you hear them here. No re-takes or re-mixing. Includes the previously unreleased "Waltzing the Shadows" and such Lowen & Navarro classics as "Just To See You", "Until The Well Runs Dry" and "Broken Moon".

Customer Reviews:

These Guys Should Be Superstars.......2006-02-22

I have now purchased all of their albums, and I can't pick a favorite - each is excellent: thoughtful lyrics and wonderful harmonies. Dan Navarro's voice is so smoothe and Eric Lowen's high harmonies just fit perfectly. I've been lucky to see them in small venues three times in the last six months - and can not believe they don't command more of a following. They joke about being a non-profit organization (not by design). If you have a chance to see them live - don't miss it: the music is wonderful, they are both witty and intelligent and they have a real connection to the audience. If you can't make their show, this disc is the next best thing. Next, you will want to buy "All the Time In the World" and then "Walking On a Wire." Then, you will be like me, saying "Why the hell aren't these guys SUPERSTARS!!!"

Lowen and Navarro at their best.......2003-11-19

L&N combine terrific harmonies with an accoustical backdrop. The quality of the album demonstrates their strength as musicians and singers, capture the qualities of a live show with nearly the production values of a studio recording. Their music touches the heart and appeals to people young and old.

Fantastic.......2002-09-30

I feel like I've been missing something for many years. Heard L&N on NPR this past summer and then ordered Live Radio on line. I can't get enough of this CD. Usually after a while the newness fades but with this gem there is something different to hear all the time. Their songwriting is superb, the playing totally clean, the harmonies powerful, and the production on this CD perhaps the best I've ever heard. Hard to imagine it wasn't done in a studio with numerous takes. These guys must be fabulous live and I'm looking for them to come anywhere near here. Can't recommend this CD enough. It's 6+ stars.

Wow!.......2002-08-30

I first heard about these two very talented songwriters/singers during an interview on NPR's Morning Edition. I thought I'd buy the CD after they played two of the tracks from it. I haven't been disappointed. In fact, I listen to it every day at work and plan to purchase the rest of their CD's. They are so good that it is hard to believe that these recordings are live performances. Great lyrics, amazing harmony, solid tunes.

The Live Record: Witless Banter & 25 Mildly Antagonistic Songs About Love

Average customer rating:

Just as good as if you were seeing them in concert!!!
Not a great beginner's CD
wow...just wow
Better Live than recorded, best DHC CD
Dance Hall Crashers... What else is there to say??

The Live Record: Witless Banter & 25 Mildly Antagonistic Songs About Love
Dance Hall Crashers
Manufacturer: Fat Wreck Chords
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Blue Plate Special [ENHANCED CD]
The Old Record (1989-1992)
Purr
Modified
It Means Everything

ASIN: B00004SQYD
Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

'Go
Make Her Purr
Mr Blue
She's Trying
Next To You
Triple Track
Enough
My Problem
We Owe
Remember To Breathe
The Real You
Shelley
American Girl
Cat Fight
Good For Nothing
Othello
Won't Be The Same
Queen For A Day
Don't Wanna Behave
Lost Again
Cricket
Sticky
He Wants Me Back
The Truth About Me
D.H.C.

Customer Reviews:

Just as good as if you were seeing them in concert!!!.......2005-07-17

I just bought this CD and absolutely LOVE it!! I saw DHC in concert about 8 years ago in Hawaii and it was one of my all time favorites! This CD really brings back great memories of how GREAT they sound live! It's so upbeat and catchy!

Not a great beginner's CD.......2004-01-06

This is my first intro to DHC. I am a big fan of groups with intelligent or interesting lyrics (TMBG, Barenaked Ladies, Nerfherder) and used the Amazon recommendation to look into them. I figured this would hit their better songs and let me decide if I want to pursue them further.

The problem with a live album is that it is harder to understand the lyrics so I am not sure if I would like a studio album since I am such a lyrics fan. They seem like a fun band with lots of energy and would be a good live show. However, I don't like how they drop the F-bomb a lot.

Overall, it is likely a very good album for DHC fans but maybe not a good starter's album.

wow...just wow.......2003-06-12

To anyone reading this review, BUY THIS CD! I bought it after not knowing many DHC songs and it knocked me off of my feet. The CD was instantly on the list as one of my all time favorite CD's. There isn't one song on here not worth listening to. Trust me, it's the kind of CD you listen to in your car and decide to keep driving around, just so you can keep listening to..alright maybe I'm the only one that happened to, but trust me, there is not one song on here that you won't want to listen to. SO BUY IT ALREADY!

Better Live than recorded, best DHC CD.......2002-10-18

If you're only going to own one DHC CD, it should be this one. It is a bit of a greatest hit compilation (though I miss Pick Up Lines and Setting Sun and some others) and many of the songs are better than on the studio recordings. I'll probably never get to see them live, but obviously they are meant to be heard that way.

If you can sit still through this CD, then something is wrong, because its mostly fast with many great lyrics.

Word of caution: DHC and the Ska sound is not everyone's cup of tea. But that is their loss.

Enjoy.

Dance Hall Crashers... What else is there to say??.......2002-08-05

This CD proves that even after 11 years in the recording industry, DHC STILL is alive and rockin'! This happens to be my favorite DHC CD because of the fact that it features songs from ALL of there wicked albums (which I encourage you to buy if you don't have them already). The Live Record makes you feel as though you're at the concert, screaming and rockin' out with all the other fans! This is a MUST HAVE CD for any ska/pop/punk fan! So why are you still reading this??? Go and get this amazing record right now!!!!

Average customer rating:

Nicknames and Natives
The Antiques
Manufacturer: Banter Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N3DLCI

Average customer rating:

Molded Truths
The Sixth Chamber
Manufacturer: Novokkane Noise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0001K5ODC
Release Date: 2003-06-24

Tracks:

Possessed
Shameful Divide
Circus Faustus
Charred Gavel
Princess Doe
Mesmera's Gaze
Molded Truths
Delusions of Persecution
Two-Legged Parasites
Verbezen Gungstaeter

Average customer rating:

To Go
Grams & Bronsdon Kearney
Manufacturer: Vitalegacy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000667F7
Release Date: 2002-04-09

Tracks:

Thus Spake Zarathustra
This Can't Be Love
Yum, Yum, Yum
There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Something Better Happen Soon
I've Got Eyes
Gimme That Wine
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
I'm In Love With You
Nostalgia In Times Square
Big Ten-Inch Record
I Dream Of Jeannie
Do Me A Favor
Forbidden Fruit

Album Description

Kearney, Grams and Bronsdon's debut album "Nine Waters, No Tip" entertained Lindy Hoppers and club owners alike with it's tongue-in-cheek title track and what have become favorites on the dance floor, like "Stop Boogie Woogie" and the instrumental "Blues for Pete." Their new CD, "To Go," promises to become another underground classic of the swing renaissance. The live recording is the first release on drummer Kyle Bronsdon's new Vitalegacy label.

The title of the album has bittersweet implications for fans of the band they've nick-named the "KGB Trio." Bronsdon and pianist Brenden Kearney are splitting up the group to pursue solo careers. The drummer is recording a new collection of all-original swing music. "I'm a jazzer," he says, "and I couldn't ask for more in the music I perform for people. It's jazz, there's a lot of humor in the material, it's accessible and it's danceable. And that's what I want to do, bring jazz back to the street -- and keep it there."

Bronsdon sees that national interest in neo-swing has faded, but not so, he says, for the authentic small-combo swing that KGB performs. "With all these born-again patriots lately," he muses, "you'd think that America's original music, and greatest cultural contribution to the world, that everybody would be doing Lindy Hop. Fortunately," he adds with a smile, "we have a small yet mighty niche of people with impeccable taste."

Sonic Documentation of Exhibition and Banter
Average customer rating:

Great Live CD

Dead?

Dead, but still alive!

There are no equals!

THE BEST BLUE MEANIES CD EVER!!!

Sonic Documentation of Exhibition and Banter
Blue Meanies
Manufacturer: Asian Man
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Ska Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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Blue Meanies Pigs

ASIN: B000009YOT
Release Date: 1998-09-08

Tracks:

Send Help
Smash The Magnavox
Acceleration 5000
Polka In The Eye
The Devil Came To The Ninth Ward
The Noise Of Democracy
The Infidelity Song
I'm A Have Not
Tread
The Great Peacemaker
The Shitfuck Man
Vote No
An Average American Superhero
Mr. Function
Smother Me
The Fourth Of July
Johnny Mortgage
Pave The World
F.O.R.D.
Grandma Shampoo
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Customer Reviews:

Great Live CD.......2005-06-16

Idont know why they broke up but this cd is great and great for being live

Dead?.......2005-06-05

Despite the bands breakup, they did play a show late 2004 with Mu330 at the Chicago metro. I had never hear of them or Mu330 when my friends asked me to go to the show, but I do love ska. They were both spectacular. The each have a very different sound but should each be given a chance. Their anthem like "Pave the World" is a great show of how a band can move someone.

Dead, but still alive!.......2002-10-11

Blue Meanies is dead. The band separated on May 2002. But this album will remain one of the psychiest ever. Ska? Punk? Core?
Prog? Maybe it's all this together,but with a big accent of that ska sound that they give themselves. Kinda circus that have turned to carnage, their lyrics talks about american life,mostly.
Not for sweet ears. Even not for Mu330 fans who thinks that if they played together live so many times, they play the same kind of music.Not at all. For all Mr.Bungle,Primus,Naked City, and Aquabats fans.

There are no equals!.......2000-10-19

in a world where ska and punk fusion bands continue to sound like jeffries fan club rip-offs, this is the one band which truly stands out. this is the most energetic c.d. i have ever listened to, It's crazy. There is no modern ska/punk/jazz/polka?/metal band that you can even mention in the presence of these musicians. one of my favorite c.d.'s of all time... if i could only remember where I lost it...

THE BEST BLUE MEANIES CD EVER!!!.......1999-06-18

This is my favorite blue meanies cd ever. Anyone who loves these guys must own it, anyone who doesn't love these guys must own it, anyone how has never heard them, BUY IT!!!

Simply an amazing display of talent, i must listen to the entire cd at least twice a day, i picked it up at one of there shows a few months back, and haven't stopped listening yet.