Blue Screen Life [Import]

1. Offline P.K.

2. Concrete Seconds

3. Boo

4. Bbtone

5. Penelope

6. Talby

7. X I Y

8. Prog

9. Your Sickness

10. Seville

11. West

12. Tres

13. Serge

14. Anti-Hu

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks.

Tracks:

Offline P.K.
Concrete Seconds - Pinback, Tom Zinser
Boo
Bbtone
Penelope
Talby
X I Y
Prog - Pinback, Tom Zinser
Your Sickness - Pinback, Tom Zinser
Seville
West
Tres

Customer Reviews:

Reference piece.......2007-01-10

I have a reference quality system (Wilson, Classe, Levinson, Transparent) and this is one of my reference recordings. Most find the music a bit odd but I just love it. Harmonizing baratone guitars with an unbelievable clarity that defies where and how it was recorded. This is a fantastic accomplishment both in terms of the music and the recording.

Solid album all the way through.......2006-08-25

Not just one or two good songs, this album is full of great songs. You can play it all the way through, which seems rare these days. Pinback's sounds are intricate and unique. I cant get enough!

The Greatest Pinback album.......2006-06-16

Offcell amazed with the 12 minute epic grey machine, Summer in abaddon had its moments of greatness, but it is Blue-Screen Life that remains as their best album to date. Song after song, Pinback delivers with the some of the most fascinating, endlessly replayable indie pop tracks i have ever heard.

Offline P.K. is an extremely good start, sporting the two vocalists trading off lyrics as well as fairly intricate basslines which continue through the disc. Concrete Seconds, Boo, and Penelope are instantly catchy. The remainder of the cd is great until it gets to tres- then its amazing. I could not imagine a more perfect closer than this profoundly beautiful masterpiece. The lyric " There's a definate feeling buried down/ recking itself taking you with me" is repeated through much of the song yet never loses its beauty.
this was actually the first indie album i listened to and is an album of which i compare all others.

Intellegent catchy ness.......2006-05-23

3 1/2 stars

The repetition found throughout this disc leads to inspired head bopping serenity that doesn't quite sound, or effect, like anything else out there. At times overcome by their elaborate progressive-pop echo chambers, they often triumph in delivering that rare combination of quirkiness and melancholy, driven by a hungry ear from singer/guitarist in their layering tendencies inside the already intricate guitar and vocal layouts. Unabashedly melodic and quirky with subtly progressive undertones, Pinback can definitely help build some great bridges for some terribly dull music collections for alot of young listeners out there..

Best of Pinback.......2005-12-18

Every Pinback album is great, but Blue Screen Life as a whole is my favorite. There really is nothing to compare it to. They have one of the most unique, individual sounds out there right now that is also very listenable. The beats and things they do with the bass and baritone quitar are incredible and like none other. Sure they have their influences, but they have created their own thing, taking full advantage of new home recording technology making simple yet very complex arrangments. Take a listen and see for yourself, it may not be for everybody, but if your like me you will fall in love with the first listen.

Average customer rating:

Blue Screen Life

Blue Screen Life
Pinback
Manufacturer: Pias
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005O11L

Tracks:

Offline P.K.
Concrete Seconds - Pinback, Tom Zinser
Boo
Bbtone
Penelope
Talby
X I Y
Prog - Pinback, Tom Zinser
Your Sickness - Pinback, Tom Zinser
Seville
West
Tres

Customer Reviews:

Blue Screen Life.......2003-03-30

The frigid night looked unbelievable at 3am. Somewhere between
here and home, the sounds were perfect, and I pulled over by the side of the road, stopped by a frozen lake and smoked a cigarette, my back on the hood, counting constellations, this cd leaking out. It was a perfect scene, like something out of a movie, moonlight spilling all over the valley hills that surrounded this lake that seemed abandoned by the world. Once in a while a cd reminds you why you love music. A jab in the face of stagnant music, this album is fresh, intelligent, beautiful and bold.

I can't say enough about the creativity in this band. In a time when so much is dictated by what kind of a genre the band fits, Pinback is a testimony of what two creative minds can produce. The music is lush, ethereal and gorgeous, presented in ways that are far from conventional. The lyrics play off in unique ways, and the musicianship is startlingly great, pouring from every note. Zach's radical bass playing is responsible for so much more of what you hear than you may notice at first listen, and Rob's creativity on the guitar is a perfect compliment, feeding the relentless spark of dual inventiveness within the band. They create an amazing soundscape for their somewhat odd but poignantly beautiful ideas to flow. The lyrics are intelligent and often times dark, lonely, observant, at some points even hinting at philosphical.

Tracks:

Offline P.K.
Concrete Seconds
Boo
Bbtone
Penelope
Talby
X I Y
Prog
Your Sickness
Seville
West
Tres
Serge
Anti-Hu

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Admonition.......2005-08-30

Are you moody? Thoughtful? Does your mind wander? Do you have ADD? Are you perhaps the deepest person on the planet? If you answered yes to any of these questions, buy this CD.

Pinback will be a huge band one day, but thank the stars for now they are not and it can be our little secret. It is the most provacative music I have ever heard, the vocals are more like instruments and act as a vehicle for the music instead of visa versa. Pull your head out - paradigm shift - this is the new.

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