SHODS
STOP CRYING
Track Listing:
| Problems | ||
| The Zig | ||
| 18 Miles Down | ||
| Destiny | ||
| MP3 | Building Up | |
| Shot Himself Up | ||
| Gone Gone Gone | ||
| MP3 | Mill City | |
| Yesterday's Kisses | ||
| Crazy Days | ||
| Jessebelle | ||
| 6 Bullets | ||
| Far Away From You | ||
| Chicoura | ||
| Don't Make Me Beg |
Reviews:
| SHREDDING PAPER #12 |
| The Shods play cool, soulful rock and roll with a deep, dark beat and lovely hooks. They use vocal backups for puncuation and emphasis, with a real sense of the dramatic. After kicking out the Zombies-flavored tune 'Problems', they segue nicely into the shadowy beach party sound of 'The Zig'. 'Destiny' is a sad, powerful ballad to rival any mid-60s hit single. Damn, this stuff is fun! |
| ARTCORE #16 (WALES) |
| This is a turn up for the books! Four rocknroll quiff guys playing really authentic sounding 50's/60's stuff. They cover all the bases, and the production sounds pretty mainstream in places, but the songwriting is really good and it gets you hooked. Predominantly they sound like a mix of early Misfits with the Plugz and the Cramps on a real Link Wray trip. You can hear snippets of Costello and Bowie in the vocals, and one or two songs are total Clash homages. There's even some over the top Humperdink style crooning in places. Musically, this is all around the block and very good. |
| HEARTATTACK #33 |
| I can't believe this came out on the same label as the Out Cold CD. Pretty strange. This is entirely different in tone, music and content. Hmmm, I did like The Shods' mix of Elvis (Costello) and Elvis (the king). There are some surf and garage elements in here, too, which makes me think that this would make a good soundtrack for a Quentin Tarantino film. Furthermore, these 15 tracks are extremely well played and recorded. The level of professionalism is quite astounding. Certainly not the most hardcore sounding release of this issue, but I must admit that I enjoyed this CD even more than looking at pictures of hairy naked guys. Which has nothing to do with this CD, it's just something I do every now and then. |
| KAINUUN SANOMAT (FINLAND) |
| Shods recorded their second full-length-album Stop Crying 1997. That time it wasn't released because of record-company Fort Apache's falling. Publication's delaying with half-decade piss off the band without a doubt, but as much it will propably makes the listener wonder, because this is very splendid rock 'n roll-record. Shods' do their rock with very traditonal methods, but can use variations without prejudices. Stop Crying includes stiff and straight rock 'n roll, epic gush overs, emotional ballads and many kinds of clever tricks. Gone Gone Gone represents hit-section with unbelievable's ingenious, supplied with king-melody, intensive vocals and cunning arrangement. Even there is some not so stirring stuff, I can recommend Shods to old school rockers with pleasure. Even the host of relatively small Acme Records coudn't believe he got a chance to release this kind of wolrd-class material: 'I don't deserve to put this out. Hallelujah!! |
Pressing history:
| FORMAT | PRESSING | DATE | QUANTITY | DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC |
| CD | 1 | August 2001 | 1000 |