Receiving Transmission [Box set] [Import]

1. Some Assembly Required
2. Mayakovsky Had A Gun
3. Headlights
4. Seven Colours
5. Note To Self
6. Broken Fixed
7. Taste Of Romance
8. Astronauts Journal
9. Engines Failed
10. Goodbye Is Not Enough
11. We Are Not Science
12. Johnnie On The Rocks
13. Keepsake Outro 2
14. Silverspoons
15. Here I Am
16. Keepsake
17. Tim's Brother
18. Friend
19. Not Pretty Enough
20. After The Fire
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Australian band One Dollar Short return with the follow up to their 2002 Top 10 debut 'Eight Days Away'. This Australia exclusive limited edition pressing comes with a bonus disc featuring 11 B-sides, 'Keepsake Outro - 2', 'Silverspoons', 'Here I Am', 'Ke

Tracks:

Some Assembly Required
Mayakovsky Had A Gun
Headlights
Seven Colours
Note To Self
Broken Fixed
Taste Of Romance
Astronauts Journal
Engines Failed
Goodbye Is Not Enough
We Are Not Science
Johnnie On The Rocks
Keepsake Outro 2
Silverspoons
Here I Am
Keepsake
Tim's Brother
Friend
Not Pretty Enough
After The Fire
Starry Night
Measure Of Stride
Robot

Album Description

Australian band One Dollar Short return with the follow up to their 2002 Top 10 debut 'Eight Days Away'. This Australia exclusive limited edition pressing comes with a bonus disc featuring 11 B-sides, 'Keepsake Outro - 2', 'Silverspoons', 'Here I Am', 'Ke

Album Details

Australian Band One Dollar Short Return with the Follow Up to their 2002, Top 10 Debut "Eight Days Away". "Receiving Transmission" was Written in Early 2004 and Honed by Producer Phillip Mckellar (Silverchair, Grinspoon). Strictly Limited Edition Comes with a Bonus Disc featuring 11 B-sides.

Customer Reviews:

Receiving Transmission.......2004-07-10

No brave new direction for One Dollar Short on this one. The group continues it's love affair with the Ataris' sound, and their lyrics still revolve around losing everything that there is to lose. The fist single, `Some Assembly Required', isn't bad, it's fast and heavy enough to hold my attention, as are `Mayakovsky had a gun' and `Engines Failed', but the rest is so slow and similar that it gets very old very quickly. The intros to most of the songs actually sound quite promising, but somehow all is lost by about the middle of the song, where the band usually bursts into a slow emotional chorus. One selling point is that Receiving Transmission comes with a limited bonus disc containing some b-sides from past releases. This bonus disc is actually quite listenable due to the fact that there is more variation in the songs, the highlight being a Me First and the Gimme Gimmes style cover of Casey Chambers' `Am I not pretty enough?' Though in some parts Receiving Transmission is a little more up-beat, and perhaps slightly heavier than One Dollar Short's past releases, ultimately it seems that there is just not enough progression in their music to gain any new fans, or even to hold old ones. This is a real shame too, as the band is so great live. My advice is to forget the CD and spend your money on a ticket to one of their shows.

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