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Artist : Detroit Cobras
Album : Tied & True
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Year : 2007
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Encoder : Unknown
Codec : LAME 3.97
Bitrate : VBR ~216K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3
Ripped By : Unknown on 11/9/2008
Posted By : Unknown on 2/22/2011
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Review / Description
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This has some of my favorite tunes by them, Only To Other People, Try Love and The Hurt’s All Gone.
Pop Matters sez:
Coming of age when Madonna was the reigning queen of pop, I have a hard time understanding how girls of my mother’s generation heard girl groups as revolutionary in the 1960s. Don’t get my wrong, I love the elegant Supremes, the honest Shirelles, the playful Ronnettes. When I was a high schooler experiencing my first crushes, these groups provided my theme songs. (I was anachronistic even as a child…) Now, when I want to momentarily cast off the bitterness of age for romantic sentimentality, there is still hardly a better soundtrack. But for me, ‘60s girl groups always lacked a certain kick-ass quality that speaks to the anger love arouses. When my heart skips a beat when I see a crush, I want to send him the hospital bill for weakening such a vital organ. When he likes me back, I’m afraid he could disappear at any moment. When he dumps me, well, that one’s obvious…
So maybe I’m a little high-strung when it comes to love—that’s what my friends tell me. But I think all of us are familiar with these insecurities, and at least a part of us rents the object of our affection for it. Tied and True marries the sounds of the girl groups to the in-your-face independence of garage rock. It’s not the girl groups grown up. It’s the girl groups gone punk, and it sounds sentimental and sassy, codependent and independent, vulnerable and proud. The twin sides of teenagedom perfect for adults.
Lead singer Rachel Nagy’s voice does much to update the girl group sound. It’s a powerful one, and identifying with her as she sings her guts out makes the listener feel powerful. But perhaps the most important punkifying element is Mary Ramirez’s smoking guitar. Strings and horns dominated the girl groups’ instrumental world. Guitars were largely a toy reserved for boys and their rock and roll. What a joy it is, then, that an overdriven guitar cuts through the wall of sound to give Nagy’s vocals a powerful instrumental partner. Even better, it’s played by a woman. Sadly in this day and age, you still rarely see a woman playing lead guitar in rock and roll. It’s fitting that a woman would sieze guitar’s phallic power for the Cobras.
While this record is tremendous fun to listen to, it could be improved. The Cobras front-load the album with rockers, which get repetitious after the third song. Mixing in some of the slower numbers from later in the album could break it up a bit. Also, they haven’t quite got the mix right—Nagy’s vocals stand apart from her band, as if they’re singing from different rooms.
But it’s still one I’ll be coming back to, especially the next time some guy pisses me off by making me fall for him.
Track Listing
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1. As Long As I Have You (2:57)
2. Nothing But A Heart Ache (2:39)
3. If You Don’t Think (1:41)
4. Leave My Kitten Alone (2:40)
5. (I Wanna Know) What’s Going On? (2:04)
6. Try Love (2:52)
7. You’ll Never Change (2:51)
8. Puppet On A String (2:07)
9. Only To Other People (2:25)
10. The Hurt’s All Gone (2:24)
11. My Delight (2:21)
12. On A Monday (1:40)
13. Green Light (2:43)
Total Playing Time: 31:31 (min:sec)
Total Size : 53.4 MB (55,993,290 bytes)
When we come into this world, some of us get tapped on the head by God, the Grand Poobah, Mother Nature or who/whatever and are granted extraordinary gifts; there is no question that Detroit Cobras’ singer Rachel Nagy rolled snake eyes at the Grand Casino in the Sky. With Tied And True, their first new record in three years, the Cobras practically done created a new genre all for themselves, delivering the sonic goods to back up some seriously supernatural soulful vocal gifts.
Untrained and undisciplined (and how!), Rachel started out by belting revved-up rock yowlers and has grown into the gen-u-ine gutsy, vulnerable, delicate and commanding soul-on-the-edge singer. She effortlessly glides from R&B sass, to girl group pathos to kitten-with-a-whip toughness with a snap of her chipped fingernails. Longtime musical partner in crime, guitarist Mary Ramirez keeps the DE-troit Motor City in the Cobras with her body shop wallop, greasy rock ‘n soul rhythms and a bold grasp of old school, big room arrangements.
Stretching out in the studio like never before, and including contributions from top line players like Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound) the Cobras have created a versatile and formidable wall of Spector sound (is that timpani you’re hearing here and there? Yer goddamn right it is). Be it eerie or orchestral, or pure rock and roll rough up, Tied and True puts the Cobras on a whole new level.
Soul lives below the belt, and whether you’re looking to be grinding it slow or shaking it up good, the Cobras bring it tough and tender, savage and sweet. Tied and true.
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/detroitcobras/295
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