THE UNBAND

Retarder

TRACK LISTING

01. Geez Louise
02. Too Much Is Never Enough
03. Rock Hard
04. The Jilt
05. Ski Hat
06. $#@?!!
07. Pink Slip
08. Crack Soundtrack
09. Everybody Wants You
10. Get With You
11. (Sure Do Feel Like A) Piece Of Shit
12. Dope (Part 2)
13. Cocaine Whore
14. Drink And Rock

NOTES
Date: March 7, 2000
Label: TVT RECORDS
Genre: ROCK
Category: Rock/Pop

REVIEWS CDNOW

It sometimes seems amazing, happily so, that people can still making great music out of simple guitar licks and rhythms. As the latest group to prove this, the Unband rocks like a bunch of kids in a garage who haven't gotten past the chapter on the '70s in their copy of "Rock Music for Dummies" and don't really care.
Singer Matt Pierce sounds like Motörhead's Lemmy if you handed Lemmy a throat lozenge, while drummer Eugene Ferrari and bassist Mike Ruffino put pre-prog rock Rush rhythms up against Pierce's pre-rehab Aerosmith-like guitar riffs. But it really isn't that complicated.
On such songs as the swaggering "Everybody Wants You" and the anthemic "Rock Hard," these guys are just the best raw, bar-brewed, riff happy, hard rock band since the early days of Guns N' Roses. And that, my friends, is an amazing thing to hear.

Paul Semel