Please Describe Yourself [Enhanced]

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While Interpol claims Joy Division and The Killers take on Duran Duran, this Scottish band seems to delight in digging through the '80s bargain bin for its influences. Sure enough, its debut album sounds like a collision of the most unfashionable players of the era: Dexy's Midnight Runners, Talking Heads, and perhaps most obviously, XTC. The resulting album may sound a little spastic and unfocused but it is also consistently tuneful, with pulse-quickening songs like "I Love You Because I Have To" and "Godhopping" proving particularly addictive. This makes for a fine companion to the self-titled debut by fellow Scots Franz Ferdinand. -- Aidin Vaziri

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Please Describe Yourself [Enhanced]

Average customer rating: Eagerly anticipating their follow-up So what if it's not original GET IT Overall just barely good - it has its fair share of catchy and entertaining songs, though - most won't like the singer Just `cause they're from Scotland doesn't mean they're Franz Ferdinand....

Please Describe Yourself Dogs Die in Hot Cars Manufacturer: V2 Ada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Employment The Bravery Franz Ferdinand Stars of CCTV Home for an Island ASIN: B0002VEOG8 Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

1. I Love You Cause I Have To
2. Modern Woman
3. Celebrity Sanctum
4. Somewhat Off the Way
5. Apples & Oranges
6. Godhopping
7. Lounger
8. Paul Newman's Eyes
9. Pastimes & Lifestyles
10. Glimpse at the Good Life
11. Who Shot the Baby?

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While Interpol claims Joy Division and The Killers take on Duran Duran, this Scottish band seems to delight in digging through the '80s bargain bin for its influences. Sure enough, its debut album sounds like a collision of the most unfashionable players of the era: Dexy's Midnight Runners, Talking Heads, and perhaps most obviously, XTC. The resulting album may sound a little spastic and unfocused but it is also consistently tuneful, with pulse-quickening songs like "I Love You Because I Have To" and "Godhopping" proving particularly addictive. This makes for a fine companion to the self-titled debut by fellow Scots Franz Ferdinand. -- Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews:

Eagerly anticipating their follow-up.......2006-09-15

I confess: I bought this album after hearing "I Love You 'Cause I have to" on NPR because of the funny band name. Well I think it's funny; the majority of the population thinks it's unweildly like a runway model carrying one of those giant hammers from Braveheart (since we're on the topic of Scottish culture). It's a good indicator of the contents and the public's response, however. Their fellow Scottsmen Franz Ferdinan, a much more lyrical name, is palatable both to coffee house intellectuals and frat boys. DDIHC's often spastic delivery and quick thought lyrics would elude most. It eluded me for about a year. I picked this album up last summer and sang along to a few choruses and chuckled not so much at the lyrics, but at the notion that a band that name-drops Catherine Zeta-Jones and Paul Newman probably has funny lyrics, so I should laugh at them. I recently found the cd in my trunk, and now I admire all the deeper production previously un-noticed and the clever lyrics.

For all their pub-chant inducing choruses, DDIHC are as accesible to the public as a 500 LB man's butt crack is to himself, and they don't really feel like reaching because they haven't stretched properly. XTC comparisons are all over the place, too recklessly for it to be intentional (think spilled drinks after a party), from the ambient noise of synths and guitar licks to the nasal vocals. XTC are rarely this anchored in the arteries of society; I hear more Talking Heads than anything else, especially in "Godhopping". "Covered in Flowers" wouldn't be at all out of place on this album, if it didn't come out 20 years ago. There's a lot of energy in this band, and the sort of social commentary that makes you feel good that you're not "one of those"... until they find where you were hiding and let you project the meaning of a song on yourself. Whether you're lazy/unemployed/unambitious ("Lounger"), or you run away from your problems and live in denial in shallow comforts ("Godhopping"), you rationalize breakups with unfair comparisons ("Celebrity Sanctum"), or you're just envious ("Paul Newman's Eyes", "Glimpse at the Good Life")... it's like self-help.

Every track has memorable lines and something that sticks in the balcony section of your auditory imagination and makes comments. This is the sort of boldness within traditionalism that causes me to continually peruse the world for new decent artists. There's no reason not to buy this album unless you're in the PETA.

So what if it's not original.......2006-07-27

As many reviewers point out, Dogs Die in Hot Cars sound extremely similar to XTC, and they do, but is that a bad thing? Very few bands are original, most draw from their influences, and if the music is decent I have no problem if they sound like someone else. A little over 38 minutes long, this disc goes by quickly but there are plenty of upbeat, poppy songs with entertaining lyrics. This CD also contains the following videos, playable only on a computer: "Godhopping", "I Love You `Cause I Have To" and "Lounger". Not unique, but still a good disc.

GET IT.......2006-02-18

This is a fantastic album; every song should be no.1 in my opinion! In my opinion their best songs are 'Somewhat Off The Way', 'Glimpse At The Good Life' and 'Godhopping', closely followed by 'Lounger', 'Modern Woman' and 'Celebrity Sanctum'.
Take my advice and ignore the criticism of the lead singer: he has a great voice....they're a credit to the UK - GET IT NOW!

Overall just barely good - it has its fair share of catchy and entertaining songs, though - most won't like the singer.......2006-01-08

Dogs Die In Hot Cars (wow that's a bad name) definitely give "Please Describe Yourself" their all, but in the end it's barely a good album. There are definitely relatively good songs here ("I Love You 'Cause I Have To", "Godhopping", "Modern Woman" and "Lounger"), but the album is pretty cheesy as a whole (though there are no "bad" songs here if you like the singer) and the singer is just not good at all. You'll definitely get annoyed by his singing (it's punkish sounding with a British accent). You can tell these guys have talent - they certainly know how to create a great sounding song with a good hook. If they could write better songs and get a better singer then they could become a really big band I think. The lyrics aren't really that interesting to listen to either. The saving grace here is that every song is good if you like the singer. This is essentially for ska/punk fans only. Recommended only if you like the singer.

Highlights include:
the entire album if you like the singer

Just `cause they're from Scotland doesn't mean they're Franz Ferdinand...........2005-12-29

There are way too many comparisons between Dogs Die in Hot Cars and Franz Ferdinand. Both the bands are Scottish, but the similarities stop there. Franz has that unbelievably catchy dance-punk feel, while these guys are slightly more mellower with more of a pop feel. As I am a Franz Ferdinand nut, I bought this CD thinking that I'd have more of the same, and I was disappointed. "I Love You `Cause I Have To" is a good single (it actually sounds a lot like Kaiser Chiefs), but the other songs just don't catch up to it in my opinion. "Paul Newman's Eyes" and "Glimpse at the Good Life" are the other standouts in my opinion, but that's really not saying that much. I'm not saying that these guys are terrible... they're a fairly good pop band. They're just not what I thought that they were going to be.

Average customer rating: Lousy name for a great band Some band names are so DOG-AWFUL . . . You've been waiting for an album like this for a long time..

Please Describe Yourself Dogs Die in Hot Cars Manufacturer: V2 Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002AZT2W Release Date: 2004-07-19

Tracks:

1. I Love You 'Cause I Have To
2. Modern Woman
3. Celebrity Sanctum
4. Somewhat Off the Way
5. Apples & Oranges
6. Godhopping
7. Lounger
8. Paul Newman's Eyes
9. Pastimes & Lifestyles
10. Glimpse at the Good Life
11. Who Shot the Baby?

Customer Reviews:

Lousy name for a great band.......2005-04-05

Every single thing I've seen written about the Scottish band Dogs Die in Hot Cars (the awful name was taken from an RSPCA bumper sticker) compares them to XTC. This is mostly because singer Craig MacIntosh's voice is a dead ringer for XTC's Andy Partridge, so much so that he seems to have studied Partridge's vocal mannerisms closely. MacIntosh, though, claims that he'd never listened to XTC until seeing the music press make the comparison. Musically, the Dogs Die sound is right out of melodic 80s alt-rock, but they only sound like XTC here on "Apples & Oranges" and "Somewhat Off the Way" (the latter sounds like the Colin Moulding track on an XTC album). "Glimpse at the Good Life" makes me think of "Let's Dance"-era Bowie, and the ska of the single "I Love You 'Cause I Have To" may remind some of Madness. There are few bands that write catchy songs like this any more -- a half dozen songs on the album have soaring choruses that lodge in the recesses of your brain and roost there for days at a time. My favorites are "Celebrity Sanctum", where the singer obsesses over actresses instead of the girl who just left him, "Godhopping", and "Modern Woman". The weakest songs to my ears are single "Lounger" and "Paul Newman's Eyes". Overall, this is a 4-1/2 star album.

This is an enhanced CD, containing videos for "Godhopping", "I Love You 'Cause I Have To", and "Lounger". The videos also look like they're from the early 80s; they have the kind of unimaginative visuals that were common on MTV in the early days, but look pretty dull by today's standards. "Lounger" is the most interesting of the three.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

Some band names are so DOG-AWFUL . . ........2005-01-08

. . . I would never want their music as part of my CD collection. Marcy Playground. Mr. Mister. Uncle Cracker. Band names are really unimportant and I usually don't put much stock in them. But "Dogs Die in Hot Cars" is the worst band name I've ever heard. Absolutely dispicable. This band could be the new Beatles and I'd never buy their music. They should be embarassed.

You've been waiting for an album like this for a long time.........2004-07-18

I honestly can't remember when the last time was that I bought an album and loved every track on it on the first listen. Even my favorite bands' albums (Doves, Travis, Interpol, Turin Brakes) usually have a track or two that I could either live without or that I eventually grow to love through sheer repetition. But what Dogs Die in Hot Cars have created is brilliant, with every track having every right to be on the album as the next. Their harmonies and lyrics drew me in on the first listen. My only complaint about this album is that it is too short. Currently my favorite tracks are: 10.Glimpse of the Good Life (I think it has a "Pulp"-like sound to it), 4.Celebrity Sanctum (a great hook-of-a-chorus on this one), and 7.Modern Woman.

Average customer rating:

Please DeScribe Yourself Dogs Die in Hot Cars ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002SNEJO Release Date: 2004-09-28

Tracks:

1. Godhopping
2. Lounger
3. I Love You 'Cause I Have To
4. Celebrity Sanctum
5. Somewhat off the Way
6. Apples & Oranges
7. Modern Woman
8. Paul Newman's Eyes
9. Pastimes & Lifestyles
10. Glimpse at the Good Life
11. Please Describe Yourself
12. Who Shot the Baby?

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the Scottish indie rock act's 2004 debut album, includes two bonus tracks, 'Please Describe Yourself' and 'Who Shot The Baby'. V2.

Average customer rating:

Please Describe Yourself Dogs Die in Hot Cars Manufacturer: V2 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002Q2LMW Release Date: 2004-10-04

Tracks:

1. Godhopping
2. Lounger
3. I Love You 'Cause I Have To
4. Celebrity Sanctum
5. Somewhat Off The Way
6. Apples & Oranges
7. Modern Woman
8. Pual Newman's Eyes
9. Pastimes & Lifestyles
10. Glimpse At The Good Lfie
11. Please Describe Yourself
12. Who Shot The Baby?

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the Scottish indie rock act's 2004 debut album, includes two bonus tracks, 'Please Describe Yourself' and 'Who Shot The Baby'. V2.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring Two Bonus Tracks

Average customer rating:

Please Describe Yourself Dogs Die In Hot Cars Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000N0QAU6 Release Date: 2004-09-28

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