Kids in Philly

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Swaggering, yet passionate. Chaotic, yet charming. Opposites attract in the band Marah, as this Philadelphia foursome take an emphatic, erratic, poignant, and tension-filled ride through the dark and colorful streets of their hometown with their second album. Alt-country king Steve Earle was stunned by the band's innovative debut, Let's Cut the Crap and Hook Up Later Tonight, and turned over the keys to his Nashville recording kingdom, releasing Kids in Philly on his own label. Led by the Bielanko brothers (guitarist Serge and singer Dave), Marah turns Philly into a raucous, 21st-century echoing of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska. The results (a roughshod entanglement of Pogues-style banjo, rock & roll mandolin, Memphis horns, and loud guitars) are remarkably original: imagine the Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me with Springsteen at the mic. --Scott Holter

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Kids in Philly

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Kids in Philly
Marah
Manufacturer: Artemis Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004RDJI
Release Date: 2000-03-21

Tracks:

Faraway You
Point Breeze
Christian St.
It's Only Money, Tyrone
My Heart Is The Bums On The Street
The Catfisherman
Round Eye Blues
From The Skyline Of A Great Big Town
Barstool Boys
The History Of Where Someone Has Been Killed
This Town

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Swaggering, yet passionate. Chaotic, yet charming. Opposites attract in the band Marah, as this Philadelphia foursome take an emphatic, erratic, poignant, and tension-filled ride through the dark and colorful streets of their hometown with their second album. Alt-country king Steve Earle was stunned by the band's innovative debut, Let's Cut the Crap and Hook Up Later Tonight, and turned over the keys to his Nashville recording kingdom, releasing Kids in Philly on his own label. Led by the Bielanko brothers (guitarist Serge and singer Dave), Marah turns Philly into a raucous, 21st-century echoing of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska. The results (a roughshod entanglement of Pogues-style banjo, rock & roll mandolin, Memphis horns, and loud guitars) are remarkably original: imagine the Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me with Springsteen at the mic. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews:

Average.......2006-08-10

I bought this album after seeing them in concert at Bonnaroo 2006. Their live performance was much better than the album.

Amazing Album.......2006-01-16

I got this album a few months ago and since then it has been on constant rotation in my cd player and itunes. Some people might complain about the singer's voice, the parallels to other artists but its important to remember that Marah is its own entity. They aren't a carbon-copy of anyone else, they have their own attitude and talents. Personally, I think the lyrics on this CD are amazing, Round Eyes Blue being a highlight. Musically The History of Where Someone Has Been Killed stands out as a sort of jam session gone completely right. It sounds natural, it sounds like they put themselves in this album. I would highly recommend this album to anyone who is tired of the new age corporate "rock" that is being thrown in our face as the next big thing.

buy this disc.......2004-01-17

"round eye blues is a masterpiece" ... great sound, haunting memories of the war that will not go away ... the rest of the disc is good-excellent, but this one song ... the detail, the feelings, the hurt, the fear ...

i have a 20 year old daughter, junior in college, that heard this song, looked at me, asked: "who is that?,... and play it again!"

i hear all the comparisons to springsteen, which, is, of course, fine and good. i heard a rockin' steve forbert ... that raspy/scratchy voice, ... great rock and roll ... marah, by the standard they set, are an unrecognized force ... these guys, on this disc, are too good not to hear and feel ... it is wondrous.

Thoroughly entertaining.......2002-03-18

Believe the hype! Marah's energy is thoroughly infectious, it's lyrics throughly entertaining. Each song has certain degree of empathy for its main characters that betrays a certain generosity of heart, soul, and spirit in the Bielanko brothers. How many times have you driven by an urban riverside and completely ignored the guys with fishing lines dropped in the water? "Catfisherman" manages to make those guys come to life. We've all been lost in the melancholy of a recently-ended relationship, but how many of us afterward have had the wit to write a line like "my heart is the smell of the sewer" (from "My Heart is the Bums in the Street"), a rather rank metaphor that makes me laugh out loud everytime I think of it? Is it a bad thing that the Bielanko brothers have been compared to Springsteen and Dylan? Only if you don't like good writing.

Thoroughly entertaining.......2002-03-18

Believe the hype! Marah's energy is thoroughly infectious, it's lyrics throughly entertaining. Each song has certain degree of empathy for its main characters that betrays a certain generosity of heart, soul, and spirit in the Bielanko brothers. How many times have you driven by an urban riverside and completely ignored the guys with fishing lines dropped in the water? "Catfisherman" manages to make those guys come to life. We've all been lost in the melancholy of a recently-ended relationship, but how many of us afterward have had the wit to write a line like "my heart is the smell of the sewer," a rather rank metaphor that makes me laugh out loud everytime I think of it? Is it a bad thing that the Bielanko brothers have been compared to Springsteen and Dylan? Only if you don't like good writing.

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