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Glasvegas | 
 enlarge | Artist: Glasvegas
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 120
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 886973273920
EAN: 0886973273920
ASIN: B00198HE4C
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Flowers And Football Tops | | • | Geraldine | | • | It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry | | • | Lonesome Swan | | • | Go Square Go | | • | Polmont On My Mind | | • | Daddy's Gone | | • | Stabbed | | • | SAD Light | | • | Ice Cream Van |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Glasvegas are a four-piece from Glasgow - the latest band to be championed by industry mogul Alan McGee, the man that "discovered" Oasis. Despite the inevitable hyperbole that has followed McGee's proclamation of the band, Glasvegas more than deliver on their early promise with this eponymous debut album. The quartet already showcased their earthy wit and sonic ambitions on singles such as "Daddy's Gone," a heartfelt tale of soured father-son relations delivered in an uncompromising Glaswegian accent and set to a shimmering wall of rock & roll. Glasvegas continues in more or less the same vein. Singer James Allen reels off stories of everyday city life over euphonious, pop-edged soundtracks that blend 50s surf rock, layered, Phil Spector-esque production values and the occasional splash of 60s doo wop. Tracks like the arching "Flowers and Football Tops", the confessional "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" and the upbeat "Legs & Show" contrast with darker songs like "Stabbed" and "Go Square Go!". The band's down-to-earth worldview combined with their nostalgic sound and surging, sing-a-long choruses makes for a rich and enjoyable musical tapestry.
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 At last a band with authenticity November 17, 2008
Darrin Frew
In an entertainment business full of faked stance and faux emotion, all of a sudden something REAL has come along. Glasvegas are tough, rough around the edges but ultimately this is the genuinely most affecting releases not just in 2008 but for many years.
Let's be clear about this, 'Glasvegas' aren't romanticised 'loser' jangle from the bedroom of a semi-detached, this is raw anguish, the sound of souls being shreaded by the dismal reality of life on the streets of the East End of Glasgow. The album covers such topics as gang violence, disfunctional families and perhaps most of all the utter desperation of the poverty trap and the yearning for a better life.
If all this sounds a little dreary, like a Ken Loach film set to music, then it is most definitely not. Glasvegas takes you through the spectrum of human emotions and back again.
Heart breaking music if ever there was.
Tidal Wave Of Hype November 17, 2008
Alex DaLarge (Utrecht)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tidal wave of hype blah blah ******* blah.
Was the hype justified? Well that depends on what you mean by 'hype' - if a record company signs a new band they like, then they will always try to sell them - that's their job. In that respect hype is always justified.
Whether the band lives up to the hype is another matter. I was going to buy this on day of release but didn't - the hype was too far above the plimsol line.
So I waited a couple of months, still interested to hear it:
Thematically Glasvegas is a very heavy LP - it's got the kind of full-on unflinching 'rock and roll - deal with it' vibe that Unknown Pleasures had. This pretty much makes it the diameter opposite of bands like Coldplay, whose discontent seems to stem from paradise syndrome and misplaced earnestness.
Trackwise I'd have to say there's nothing here that is less than very good, with occasional bits of brilliance - my fave track being S.A.D. Light. A proper anthem for anyone who lives north of Kent.
Glasvegas were on a fine line with this LP - at times they get dangerously close to greeting sentimentality territory but somehow the deftness of the lyrics and the understated musicianship pull it back from the edge.
The problem with hype is that it doesn't convey the scope of a record. And the hype (true to form) doesn't really give an idea of how remarkable this release is. And it's not perfect, although if I ever heard a perfect record it would probably be by idiots and only merit one star.
MEGA!!! November 6, 2008
George Smith (Glasgow Scotland)
the music, the lyrics, the guitars, the drums, the voice!! everything about this album is MEGA!! buy it!!!
If you like Pete Wylie you'll love this! October 16, 2008
Mr. C. M. Price (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I caught "Daddy's Gone" on the radio back in August. I don't listen to Radio 1 any more but I was in a friend's car and this just stood head and shoulders above anything else was hearing on the station. I just had to have it.
Listening from the start I thought this was probably the perfect alnum. Unfortuantely a couple of tracks (Stabbed and Ice Cream Van)at the end of the album lost their way. However this couldn't be anything other than a 5 star review as the preceding tracks are just outstanding.
Having been a Pete Wylie/Wah fan for years I didn't expect anything to surpass his "wall of sound" on Story of the Blues. Sorry Pete this does it for me.
Please don't think I'm inferring that Glasvegas have copied the sound. They stand on their own.
Can I pre-order their second album now!!
Brave and Moving Debut October 15, 2008
Neil (Ipswich, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like many I heard the plaintive Daddy's Gone last year and was moved by it's emotional punch and deft songwriting. Further investigations confirmed that Glasvegas have a number of exceptional songs which really move the listeners. Obvious references are the Jesus and Mary Chain and Phil Spector and they are mined for their full potential but this album is much braver than just Ronettes imitation for a number of reasons: 1. A number of the tracks feature long ambient sequences which build slowly and demand something of the listener before breaking out into the poppier side of the band - in fact the first couple of minutes of the album are an example! 2. James's decision to keep the raw Weejie brogue may have won him some fans in Scotland but could have lost some in other places - I think it's spot on and gives the work a more sincere feel. 3. Finally, the material is nothing less than challenging [Social Work, Depression, Casual Violence] but at the same time greatly uplifting. I'm told that they signed their current deal with the proviso that the second album would be a full-fledge Christmas album - what an album that is going to be! Phil Spector look out... All in all a powerful debut and well-worth buying - love, Neil
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