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Catchy as hell -- the second time around
consistent and amazing
Great band, great songs, 2 bass players!!
Wow, did this one ever grow on me. A great 90s sex record.
Great band's second best

House of GVSB
Girls Against Boys
Manufacturer: Touch & Go Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000019L8
Release Date: 1996-03-05

Tracks:

Super-fire
Click Click
Crash 17 (X-Rated Car)
Disco Six Six Six
Life In Pink
TheKindaMzkYouLike
Vera Cruz
AnotherDroneInMyHead
Cash Machine
Wilmington
Zodiac Love Team

Customer Reviews:

Catchy as hell -- the second time around.......2005-05-19

Like some other reviewers, I wasn't impressed the first time I listened to this album and I put it away for a while. For some reason I dug it out a couple of months later and was surprised to find that it had started growing on me like crazy. It quickly became my favorite album and I spent many Saturdays listening to it while tearing around the local park on my skates. The lyrics aren't the most interesting or intelligent ones you'll hear, but this band is more about style than substance -- and style they have in spades.

consistent and amazing.......2004-04-22

from reading the other reviews, it seems many people got this album only to listen to Super-fire. I'll admit, that song is a great way to open the album, and it is one of the best songs as well. However, this is an album where you can listen to every song without finding one you don't like, and no they are not all the same. From the first track, to TheKindaMzkYouLike to Wilmington, this is a very solid album. The last track, Zodiac Love Team, shows the band's industrial roots and could have come out of the sessions with Fugazi's Brendan Canty that became their Nineties vs. Eighties album. In my opinion, House of GVSB is one of the top three GVSB albums, along with Venus Luxure and Cruise Yourself. After this album came Freak*on*ica, which was too electronica for my taste, and then You Can't Fight What You Can't See, which is good but too polished in my opinion. This is an excellent overall album, but if you have never heard GVSB before, I would start with Venus Luxure, or maybe Cruise Yourself.

Great band, great songs, 2 bass players!!.......2001-05-21

I got this three years ago when i saw that the record shop I brought it from accidently confused this with a single so i got it for next to nothing ;-)It totaly blew me away, i'd never heard anything like this before. 'Super-fire' is a brilliant opening track, the two basses are formidable, and the guy's voice is great even if he can't carry out a melody very well (he smokes way too [much]). After that the quality never dips and all the songs sound different and fresh to my ears. I could try and review every track but i don't need to, just buy it and see what you think, you won't be disapointed. A week after getting this I had all their albums in my collection and i didn't have much money at the time so that was quite a big deal for me. I'm just gutted I still havn't seen them live, PLEASE COME TO WALES!!

Wow, did this one ever grow on me. A great 90s sex record........2000-03-13

I must agree with the first part of the "music fan from Cali"'s review below. When I first picked up this CD on the recommendation of my friends Ted and Lobes, I was not impressed at all, except for the first song, the single "Super-Fire", which I liked more for one discordant, cool note in the guitar riff than for the song as a whole. :-) "Overrated," I told myself, and filed _House of GVSB_ away.

That filing-away turned out to be temporary. Every once in a while, I would get out this CD during a long drive in the car to hear "Super-Fire", and the aural treats of some of the other songs, especially "Disco 666", the discordant, atonal background noise bridge to "Life in Pink", and the driving riff to "TheKindaMzkYouLike" grew on me over time. I knew, almost a year and a half after first purchasing the CD, that it had completely grown on me when, while working delivering pizzas, I found myself singing, loudly enough to be heard by others, the line "Your baby's dress is on fire...." from "Wilmington" (which has replaced "Super-Fire" as my favorite song on the album) while walking up to complete strangers' doors to give them their food. :-)

Along with Soul Coughing's "El Oso" (her favorite album), this was the album that my girlfriend at the time and I most liked to....um....well...how shall I put this..."get it on" to. :-) And is it ever suited to that purpose. Other than Eli's breathy, low voice, I can't really describe why _House of GVSB_ is that way, but this is an incredibly erotic album. Great mood music for copulating 90s couples. :-) The songs are also well-written and originally-conceived, without subscribing to the usually bland alterna-formula that so many similar bands fall into. My friend John, on hearing this album, said, "This is what that stupid band Filter would sound like if they actually had talent," and after thinking about it a little, I kind of agree with him.

If you don't like this one at first, you might want to give it another chance - the charms of these songs are definitely not apparent on the first listen, but they reveal themselves over time. Or listen to it with your significant other; that might speed up the process some. :-) Which is probably just the way Girls Against Boys intended it.

Great band's second best.......2000-02-12

I cut my GVSB teeth on this one and the first listen didn't go well. At one point I was even going to sell it. But by then I started finding myself wanting to play it more and some more after that and the next thing I knew I loved every bit of it. Overall Venus Luxure is a better record but this is a close second. Favorite tracks: Click-Click, Wilmington, Zodiac Love Team, Super-fire.

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