Hurricane Bar

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Borrowing the Beatles' haircuts, the Kinks' mod guitar riffs and the Small Faces' ecstatic tambourine-shaking choruses, Mando Diao isn't exactly making the kind of great artistic strides one might expect from the likes of Bloc Party or the Arcade Fire. In fact, listening to the Swedish quartet's second album it's often hard to tell 2005 from 1965. But Mando Diao plies the well-worn maximum R&B formula on Hurricane Bar with so much excitement and enthusiasm, its creative shortcomings are easy to forgive. Singers Bjorn Dixgard and Gustaf Noren make great counterparts, especially on tracks like "God Knows" and "If I Leave You," where their vocals ricochet off each other and the rolling organs and punchy British Invasion rhythms. Credit also goes to producer Richard Rainey (U2's All That You Can't Keep Behind) for making the songs crackle. With the Libertines having fallen apart and Oasis nodding off, the time for Mando Diao's retro rock just might be now. --Aidin Vaziri

Product Description
Highly anticipated sophomore album from these dapper young Swedes. This U.S. version will include a slightly different track listing with exclusive material as well as 3 bonus videos. Look for North America dates in April.

Hurricane Bar

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Hurricane Bar

Average customer rating: highly recommended! Great Shit Sweden's (The World's) Absolute Finest! This album changed my life Impressive

Hurricane Bar Mando Diao Manufacturer: Mute U.S. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Swedish Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bring 'Em In Ode to Ochrasy Ode to Ochrasy Favourite Worst Nightmare Costello Music ASIN: B0007LXOGO Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

1. Cut The Rope
2. God Knows
3. Clean Town
4. Down In The Past
5. You Can't Steal My Love
6. Added Family
7. Annie's Angle
8. If I Leave You
9. Ringing Bells
10. This Dream Is Over
11. White Wall
12. All My Senses
13. Kingdom & Glory
14. Next To Be Lowered
15. Clean Town - video
16. God Knows - video
17. Down In The Past - video

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Borrowing the Beatles' haircuts, the Kinks' mod guitar riffs and the Small Faces' ecstatic tambourine-shaking choruses, Mando Diao isn't exactly making the kind of great artistic strides one might expect from the likes of Bloc Party or the Arcade Fire. In fact, listening to the Swedish quartet's second album it's often hard to tell 2005 from 1965. But Mando Diao plies the well-worn maximum R&B formula on Hurricane Bar with so much excitement and enthusiasm, its creative shortcomings are easy to forgive. Singers Bjorn Dixgard and Gustaf Noren make great counterparts, especially on tracks like "God Knows" and "If I Leave You," where their vocals ricochet off each other and the rolling organs and punchy British Invasion rhythms. Credit also goes to producer Richard Rainey (U2's All That You Can't Keep Behind) for making the songs crackle. With the Libertines having fallen apart and Oasis nodding off, the time for Mando Diao's retro rock just might be now. --Aidin Vaziri

Album Description

Highly anticipated sophomore album from these dapper young Swedes. This U.S. version will include a slightly different track listing with exclusive material as well as 3 bonus videos. Look for North America dates in April.

Customer Reviews:

highly recommended! .......2007-04-22

Great album from a great Swedish rock group! Very catchy tunes and great vocals. It's definitely worth buying!

Great Shit.......2006-02-01

If you're looking for some new stuff to get into, this is definitely the CD to buy. It's really good and full of awesome songs. You'll be the coolest kid on the block and people will ask you "Hey what you are listenin' to?" and you'll say "Mando Diao." and then they'll say "Never heard of them, but they're really good. Can you burn me a copy?" It's that good. Can't Steal My Love and Down in the Past are my favorite songs. Definitely check them out.

Sweden's (The World's) Absolute Finest!.......2006-01-25

Mando Diao should be today's Beatles. However, too many people just have crappy taste in music and Mando Diao just do not get the adoration they deserve. They are rock geniuses, writing perfect melodies and lyrics.

Out of five stars, this album is a ten

Having two singers in the band with distinctly different styles of singing are even more reminiscent of The Beatles. They deserve to have the red carpet rolled out wherever they go.

Hurricane Bar and their previous album Bring 'Em In are just amazing.

Mando Diao lovers should also try to find their B-side songs, which are some of the greatest songs but unfortunately are rare and most are unheard of.

This album changed my life.......2005-12-09

The Editorial Review (provided by Amazon above) is EXTREMELY misleading when it chides Mando Diao for lacking creativity. As a musician, a music enthusiast, and a music fan, I have to say this album (and it's predacessor) have convinced me that a few bands are still in the business of making beautiful music for fun. Perhaps the overdriven Gibson through an old vox amp reminds some people of other bands...but to assert that Mando Diao are copying the Kinks is a joke and shows an amateur bent for appreciating good music. The Kinks could learn quite a bit from Mando Diao. Words don't do this album justice. Have a listen!

Impressive.......2005-11-06

How did such ostensibly nice Swedish working-class lads come up with a name like Mando Diao? To an English-speaking-skewed mind like my own, it's a bit misleading, and before listening, I figured them for a Portuguese pop act, or a Brazilian rock band. Well, it'll be a cold day in hell before these guys warm up for the Gypsy Kings, and if they ever do, I hope that a few ambulances are at hand, because they will leave the crowd shell-shocked. Mando Diao are the latest (and one of the best) bands in the recent onslaught of fresh, pure rock and roll coming from the outposts of Europe. I don't want to compare them to the Strokes, the Hives, or Jet, although the temptation is strong. There's a bit of the Clash meets Generation X about their sound, more than a touch of Oasis about their pub-based image, and even a hint of the Beatles in their one/two punch of dual singer/songwriters. Too many new bands determine their posture before they develop a sound, but Mando Diao sound as if they are doing what comes naturally, and having some fun while doing it.
Hurricane Bar progresses with a wild abandon that suits the album title. The sound is youthful energy, slightly naïve but also self-aware. The lyrics are almost totally indecipherable - and even the lyric sheet doesn't help much, since the words rarely make much literal sense - but there are substantial hooks all over the record, and melodies that suck you in and don't let go. I don't know what song will be chosen, but "Clean Town" ought to be the first single, since it fires on all cylinders and does the best job of summing up the band's unique way of making a train wreck sound melodic and fun. Pardon my filthy mind, but "Down in the Past" (one of the few tunes where I could discern some meaning to the words) could (and should) do just as well, provided conservative radio stations don't pick up the same sexual allusions that I do.
Although most of the CD rocks like a garage band on steroids, there are moments of genuine diversity that proves them to be more than a one trick pony. "Added Family" is a moody tune that suggests vintage Robyn Hitchcock, while "All My Senses" features an organ break that makes cheeky reference to the Doors' "Light My Fire". There's even a charming acoustic tune called `Ringing Bells" which helps to pace the record quite nicely.
Today's pop charts might indicate that the glory days of rock and roll are long over, but the current upsurge in talented, hard-hitting bands indicates otherwise. At present, the movement is limited to those with `alternative' tastes, but bands like Mando Diao sound destined for fame and fortune. Who knows, maybe this Swedish band with a Portuguese-sounding name might be the next in line to prove, once again, that rock and roll will never really die. A- Tom Ryan

Average customer rating:

Hurricane Bar Mando Diao Manufacturer: EMI/Labels UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Swedish Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007PL80O

Tracks:

1. Cut The Rope
2. God Knows
3. Clean Town
4. Down In The Past
5. You Can't Steal My Love
6. Added Family
7. Annie's Angle
8. If I Leave You
9. Ringing Bells
10. This Dream Is Over
11. White Wall
12. All My Senses
13. Kingdom And Glory
14. Next To Be Lowered

Album Details

Fronted by the Prolific Songwriting Partnership of Gustaf Noren and Bjorn Dixgard, Sweden's Mando Diao Ooze Self Belief. It's Little Surprise that this Band have Exploded in So Many Countries around the Globe. In Japan, Debut Album Bring 'em in Went Gold, and in the Us the Media Went Weak at the Knees, While Across Europe and of Course Scandinavia, which Has Hardly Been Shy in Offering Fine Music Over the Last Few Years, They Play to Sold Out Houses Full of Far from Retiring Fans. With "Hurricane Bar", They Arrive Fully Formed, Unstoppable, Urgent and More Ambitious Than Ever. For this Album They Hired Richard Rainey, Best Known for his Work with U2.

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Introducing: The Ac Thundertones! The AC Thundertones! Manufacturer: The AC Thundertones! ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA8YCY Release Date: 2005-09-06

Tracks:

1. All the Pretty Guns
2. Missin' You
3. You Aint the Same Girl No More
4. Jericho (Tribute to Steely Dan)
5. Call on Me
6. Strange World

Average customer rating: Incredible cd from my new favourite band.. If you liked Mando Diao's last album, you'll love this one!! Great 2nd album

Hurricane Bar Mando Diao Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Swedish Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Garage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002MOMXW Release Date: 2004-09-20

Tracks:

1. Cut The Rope
2. God Knows
3. Clean Town
4. Down In The Past
5. You Can`T Steal My Love
6. Added Family
7. Annies Angle
8. If I Leave You
9. Ringing Bells
10. This Dream Is Over
11. White Wall
12. All My Senses
13. Kingdom & Glory
14. Next To Be Lowered
15. Your Lovers` Nerve (Bonus Track)
16. Jeanette (Bonus Track)
17. Clean Town (Cd Extra)

Album Description

Japanese edition of their 2004 album features two bonus tracks, 'Your Lovers Nerve' and 'Jeanette'. EMI.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

Incredible cd from my new favourite band.........2005-01-30

2004 was a good record year, but no albums from 2004 has hit me right in the face like this one. I can't find one weak track on this album and my feet tramps to every song apart from the beautiful and slow Ringing bells.


its maybe the melodies,lyrics or the haircuts but there is something really special about this band and this cd that has been glued to my cd player for the last two months.

Get your hands on this cd

If you liked Mando Diao's last album, you'll love this one!!.......2005-01-03

Let me start off by saying if you don't plan on buying the Hurricane Bar CD from Amazon, but from somewhere else, make sure the CD label is the Toshiba Emi version, not the Swedish one. The Toshiba album (which is the one featured on Amazon) has 2 extra songs plus the Clean Town video for you computer or dvd player. They cost the same and the Toshiba version has 2 great songs on them, one of them, Jeanette, is one of the best on the CD. Hurricane Bar is a lot more upbeat in my opinion and all the songs are very, very good. I've been trying to think of a song on the CD that I don't really like, but I honestly can't think of one. Even if you haven't heard any of Bring Em In, their first album, give this album a shot, it's worth the money for fans of garage/bluesy/alternative rock. I have a feeling this band might be big someday.

Great 2nd album.......2004-12-04

Following their first album (Bring 'em in), Mando Diao manage to do it yet again. Whereas the first album had a bit of a studio sound, this one is a bit more raw and bit louder. Three possible singles stand out on this album. Cut the rope, God knows and Down in the past. Most of the tracks are upbeat rockers with the exception of the very beautiful, Ringing bells.
If you liked the first album, you are pretty much gonna love this one. If you didn't like the first one, you're gonna love this anyway.

Average customer rating:

Hurricane Bar Mando Diao Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Swedish Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Garage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006B0QIY Release Date: 2004-11-23

Tracks:

1. Cut the Rope
2. God Knows
3. Clean Town
4. Down in the Past
5. You Can't Steal My Love
6. Added Family
7. Annie's Angle
8. If I Leave You
9. Ringing Bells
10. This Dream Is Over
11. White Wall
12. All My Senses
13. Kingdom & Glory
14. Next to Be Lowered
15. Clean Town [Video][Multimedia Track]
16. God Knows [Video][Multimedia Track]
17. Down in the Past [Video][Multimedia Track]

Album Description

2004 release. EMI.

Average customer rating:

Frederick Rothberg and the Southern Crescent (Cassette) Frederick Rothberg Manufacturer: Red Mountain Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAFBO8 Release Date: 2004-08-03

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