The Ataris - So Long, Astoria
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Artist: The AtarisBrand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- so long, astoria
- Takeoffs and Landings
- In This Diary
- My Reply
- Unopened Letter to the World
- The Saddest Song
- Summer '79
- The Hero Dies in This One
- All You Can Ever Learn is What You Already Know
- The Boys Of Summer
- Radio #2 Album
- Looking Back On Today
- Eight of Nine
- I Won't Spend Another Night Alone
- The Saddest Song (Acoustic)
Music reviews of So Long, Astoria
Music Review: Forgettable rock
Rating: 2 Stars
I have mainstream rock taste, and I understand why I'd never heard of this band. They have a decent 'sound', but they lack melody - or something. Maybe they just need another band member to be the 'glue' or to fill what's missing from their songs. They remind of a harder rock version of "Dashboard Confessionals" - and, like D.C., they think their words are so great that they don't feel the need to put forth the effort to make the words rhyme.
Description of So Long, Astoria
With a handful of indie releases and a few hectic years of touring under their belts, this release marks the Ataris big-label bow. And if the concept uniting it is an ode to the power of memory--a conceit attributed to Richard Hell, but one that ironically might as well have originated with the likes of Billy Joel--Kris Roe and company blitz their way through it with kinetic power and hooks to spare. But therein lies the rub: Fans will find this an album rife with positive energy, bright, well-constructed songs, and upbeat deliveries (if sometimes in service of awkward intellectual pretensions like "Unopened Letter to the World"'s parallels between Kurt Cobain and no less than Emily Dickinson); cynics may hear at as further evidence that punk and alternative rock have been co-opted in service of formulas as well-honed--and rigid--as anything the dreaded Corp Rock '80s ever yielded. Still, if play-it-to-the-back-rows, unabashed power-pop is what the Ataris were after here, they've delivered it with nigh perfection, right down to a slick, pumped up cover of Don Henley's classic-rock warhorse "The Boys of Summer." --Jerry McCulleyGeneral CDs
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