The State of Things: Parental Advisory

Product Details

Artist : Reverend & The Makers
Format : Explicit Lyrics
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 5413356571523
Label : Wall of Sound
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2007-09-17

ASIN : B000UC80XM

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. State Of Things
2. Machine
3. Heavyweight Champion Of The World
4. Bandits
5. Open Your Window
6. Sex With The Ex
7. 18-30
8. He Said He Loved Me
9. What The Milkman Saw
10. Sundown On The Empire
11. Miss Brown
12. Armchair Detective

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Customer Reviews

rev and the makers (2008-07-16)

most original and best album i've heard in years, provocative, thought provoking and real life. always makes me smile.

Not quite loving it but getting there (2008-01-21)

Without making any comparison to the Artic monkeys or any other bands and just listening to this album as what it is its pretty good. The songs that are good on it are really good and the rest just fail below the mark.It starts of great with fast beats and memorable hard tunes for the first five songs then it seriousily lulls till track 8 He said he loved me- (a chavs anthemn to unrequeinted love ). Heavyweight champion is the outstanding song and the other first 5 songs are in a similar vein.However the rest seriousily lull and this is where the album falls down- however in honesty its a failing of many albums nowadays.There are no great suprises on this album and all the released track songs are the best ones on the albm the others are indeed forgetable. However if you like these tracks its worth buying this as you know what you are getting- and I personally love Open your window, Heavyweight champion and state of things as they beat a lot of songs out there for orginalioty and cunning beats.Hopefully there next album will be stronger and they will start to expand more as they are in danger of just replicating the same great song over and over again. In my eyes the reverend has some great songs and talent hopefully his next album will show more diversity and more consistancy. Saying that I do love this for what good songs it has on it but just feel they have sold themselves a bit short.

Pleasant surprise (2008-01-13)

I bought this cd after hearing "heavyweight champion of the world" while shopping in HMV, never heard of them before and not really my type of music either. After listening to it a few times i am pleasantly surprised!! The first 3 tracks are really great but then it seems to go down hill a bit but they are all great tracks. Reminds me of Preston from the ordinary boys but better!! Well can't be worse can it?? I've got heavyweight champ as my ringtone now which has people asking" who's that mate" when my phone rings in pubs etc so I'm spreading the word folks.

Please let me off this conveyer.......... (2007-12-05)

I was really looking forward to this album, there was the Arctic Monkeys links, the hype, the bravado etc and god was I disappointed. It starts well enough with The State of Things, The Machine and then the storming single Heavyweight Champion....but it all goes a bit wrong from there. Samey tunes, more lyrics about going out, getting girls, having an argument with 'yer bird' in fact everything thats been done a hundred times already by every new band to surface in the past 12 months. The Reverend himself doesn't have the same knack at a lyric as Alex Turner does no matter how hard he tries, and god does he try. I apologise for making any sort of comparison with the A.M. but its difficult not to when Alex Turner is actually on the album and when the Reverend himself tries to write in a similar way. In fact 'Sex with your ex' is the Monkeys 'Despair in the departure lounge' but nowhere near as good. Serously there are some awful schoolyard lyrics/tunes on here it actually gets quite embarrassing. A fine example of someone making it big purely on the quality of his mates......anyone wanna buy 2 tickets ?

An awesome album and an awesome band (2007-10-22)

I bought this album around a month ago without really knowing whether I would like it...having only heard 'Heavyweight Champion of The World' and 'She Said He Loved Me' and believing they would be the only catchy numbers from the CD.I must confess I missed the chance to see the Reverend and his band at Reading Festival 2007- as I wanted to see 'The Enemy' and 'Maximo Park' on other stages at the same time. But clearly I missed out.The album is a great listen for anyone remotely into Indie. Although there remains the vast majority who have yet to hear either the songs themselves or even of the band, once you do you will be hooked. The electro strains also broaden the appeal to a wider audience who as ever, want something fresh, new and vibrant.I've been so impressed by the album that I made a special effort to get hold of tickets for a gig of theirs and it was brilliant. Tonight I went to the Carling Academy in Birmingham to see them and the material/atmosphere/price was top notch.So as someone else said. Buy the album. Then go and see them. And quick. Before their popularity escalates prices!

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