This is a HUGE classic of the `power pop` idiom and new comers to `the sound` should consider this to be one of, say, 20 `must haves` to represent what insanely memorable and catchy pop music is all about. "4 1/2 stars......Velvet Crush`s second album is an old-fashioned pop record: 12 songs in 40 minutes, filled with ultra-melodic guitar hooks and simple, memorable melodies. While it`s traditional in form, the music on Teenage Symphonies to God isn`t retro. Velvet Crush manage to inject a real enthusiasm and freshness in the standard three-minute pop song, whether they`re playing originals that sound like forgotten classics ("Time Wraps Around You," "This Life is Killing Me," "My Blank Pages," "Hold Me Up") or forgotten classics themselves ( Gene Clark `s "Why Not Your Baby" and Matthew Sweet `s "Something`s Gotta Give"). With a crisp, warm production from Mitch Easter ,Teenage Symphonies to God is one record that deserves to take its title from Brian Wilson ."-AMG
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Thanks for this great album. Kinda goes Matthew Sweet one better. Aloha HJ
have often been curious about this record, but have never heard it. 'til now that is. thanks for the opportunity.
You're right ... Fabulous album ... I bought it in 1994, loved it and lost it. Bit dewey eyed ... big nostalgia trip ...Thank you.
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