Liquor Giants

liquor giants

Track Listings
1. Chocolate Clown
2. Fake Love
3. Copycat
4. Cranium
5. 100 Dollar Car
6. Bastanchury Park
7. Awful Good
8. Hideous Pleasure
9. Hey You
10. Here
11. Jerked Around
12. All I Get
13. Thanksgiving in Zuma

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Liquor Giants
Here
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Liquor Giants "Here"
 Here
Liquor Giants
Manufacturer: East Side Digital
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008NN6
Release Date: 1994-08-30

Tracks:

  1. 67 East 2nd Street
  2. Arm Around You Too
  3. Stick Around
  4. Now That
  5. Disgusted
  6. This Paper Cup
  7. Something's Always on Fire
  8. Everybody's a Genius
  9. I Don't Mind
  10. Play Along
  11. Here's to You
  12. Hold My Hand
  13. Wanna Belong
  14. Happy New Year

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Liquor Giants "Here".......2003-03-08

The Liquor Giants are just one of a very few people in the music world that truly kick ...! Liquor Giants, ... define some of the best music nobody's ever heard of.
On "Here," Liquor Giants' Ward Dotson shows his writing expertise on such numbers as "67 East 2nd Street," "Something's Always on Fire" and "Everybody's a Genius."
Some people label the Liquor Giants as retro. I prefer to think of them as simply original. ...
Liquor Giants
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • awesome pop
 Liquor Giants
Liquor Giants
Manufacturer: Matador Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000036VJ
Release Date: 1996-06-04

Tracks:

  1. Chocolate Clown
  2. Fake Love
  3. Copycat
  4. Cranium
  5. 100 Dollar Car
  6. Bastanchury Park
  7. Awful Good
  8. Hideous Pleasure
  9. Hey You
  10. Here
  11. Jerked Around
  12. All I Get
  13. Thanksgiving In Zuma
  14. Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars awesome pop.......1999-07-02

these guys will be remembered as the Big Star of the nineties....and more too bad nonone buys these records. all awesome pop harmonies, with great songwriting and hooks galore. BUY ALL THEIR RECORDS.
Every Other Day at a Time
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Another Bargain in today's wasteland of "new" music
  • Liquor Giants
  • It's hard to believe these guys aren't hugely famous
  • harmonic alcoholic pop splendor
  • This is a gorgeous pop masterpiece.
 Every Other Day at a Time
Liquor Giants
Manufacturer: Matador Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000036Y8
Release Date: 1998-02-24

Tracks:

  1. It's Raining Butterflies
  2. Beautiful Flo
  3. What's The New Mofo
  4. Dearest Darling
  5. Kentucky Lounge
  6. I'll Never Mind
  7. Medicine Ball Games
  8. Multicoloured Hipshake
  9. Meaningless
  10. It Only Hurts When I Smile
  11. Riverdale High
  12. Caroline
  13. I Know I'm Wrong
  14. Summer School
  15. Untitled
  16. Untitled
  17. Untitled

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Another Bargain in today's wasteland of "new" music.......2004-12-30

Songs It's Raining Butterflies, Dearest Darling, I'll Never Know, I Know I'm Wrong, and Caroline sounds like the Beach Boys. Not too bad overall, it gets better each time you play it. I also have their std. The main guy is Ward Dotson and he definitely knows how to write catchy pop songs.
You won't be disappointed.

4 out of 5 stars Liquor Giants.......2003-02-14

Ward Dotson and the Liquor Giants are supreme examples of the 80s/90s garage/punk sound. The Liquor Giants have a sound eerily reminiscent of Minneapolis' premiere garage band, "The Replacements.' Now, no band from Minnesota will ever match The Replacements in garage/punk/kick-em-in-the-ass rock & roll. But, the Liquor Giants "67 East 2nd Street" comes REALLY close. Ward sounds like Paul Westerberg and the music and lyrics are totally Replacements quality.

5 out of 5 stars It's hard to believe these guys aren't hugely famous.......2002-07-09

This is extra-large, super delicious, whipped-cream-and-cherries-on-top American pop and bless the guys who came up with it! Lead singer Ward Dotson has braided together everyone from the Beach Boys to the Doors to Creem and just about everyone else from the 1960s through the 1970s. Yet he and his Liquor Giants compatriots have managed, almost miraculously, to come up with a sound that is serious about its roots and its influences but still entirely fresh on its own.

The album opens with the amazingly gorgeous "Raining Butterflies," a song Brian Wilson would have been delighted and proud to have authored. The harmonies are golden and tight and the song itself catchy beyond belief. "Dearest Darling" sounds like something the Animals or Buffalo Springfield or one of those bands might have put out (especially in the clanging, sparkling guitar work) but again, the Liquor Giants dudes make it all their own.

"Kentucky Lounge" almost has a Crosby Stills Nash & Young groove going, while "Medicine Ball Game" has the tall shadow of The Fifth Dimension cast across it. "Riverdale High"--an unmistakable reference to the high school attended by the whole Archie-Veronica-Reggie-Betty-Jughead gang--is a romp with (surprisingly) no apparent Archies "Sugar Sugar" overtones. "Caroline" is worth the price of the entire album, and I'll leave it at that.

It's not all sweetness and light. "Beautiful Flo" and "I'll Never Mind" are darker songs, both musically and in terms of the lyrics. But they help to balance the album on the whole and deserve a serious listen in their own right. It's hard not to oversell this album--and hard to make it sound worth listening to without making it sound derivative--but if you enjoy any of the groups I've named in the above review, you should give yourself the gift of listening to the Liquor Giants.

4 out of 5 stars harmonic alcoholic pop splendor.......1998-08-10

Th Liquor Giants don't play around when it comes to making fun music. They're difficult to classify, except broadly, as pop. And pop abounds, with the great "Dearest Darling," "It Only Hurts When I Smile," and "Caroline." Then there's a song like "Kentucky Lounge," which with its belted harmonies and acoustic guitars reminds one of the only good part of "Judy Suite Blues," at the end, when CSN finally dispense of their slow stoner pomposity and get the song and singing moving. The band gets more banal when they sound like regular roots rock; there's too much of that these days. If the Liquor Giants stick with the "la-la-las," though, we're in for more good albums down the road. Let's keep these fellas drunk and in the studio with the Monkees discography stuck in their craws.

5 out of 5 stars This is a gorgeous pop masterpiece........1998-08-08

I had heard about these guys, but somehow put off buying one of their cd's. Needless to say, big mistake. Fantastic songwriting, great melodies, irresistable. There's a little slacker, a little grunge, a little country, but primarily great pop harmonies. Definitely a little Brian Wilson thing going on. Best cuts among many: "Dearest Darling", "Kentucky Lounge", "Riverdale High, and "It Only Hurts When I Smile". Do yourself a favor, buy this record.
Something Special for the Kids
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Something Special for the Kids
    Liquor Giants
    Manufacturer: Blood Red Vinyl -- Burnside --
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000007MW3
    Release Date: 1998-04-29

    Tracks:

    1. Beatles Please Come Back
    2. Fire Brigade
    3. Don't Ever Leave Me
    4. Gotta Get A Hold Of Myself
    5. Days Of Broken Arrows
    6. What's New Pussycat?
    7. Stay Awhile
    8. Led Along
    9. Toast And Marmalade
    10. Love In The City
    11. Tallyman
    12. Things I'd Like To Say
    13. I Don't Know Why
    14. Boys Keep Swinging
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      Cornelius , Solex , Arab Strap , Come , Tommy Keene , Liquor Giants , Bardo Pond , Pussy Galore , Lyres , and Bassholes
      Manufacturer: Matador Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000KM192G

      Product Description

      Released for the SXSW music conference in Austin, TX. Collection of 10 Matador Records artists. TRACKS: 1) Cornelius - "Star Fruits Surf Rider" 2) Solex - "Solex All Licketysplit" 3) Arab Strap - "The First Big Weekend" 4) Come - "Recidivist" 5) Tommy Keene - "Getting Out From Under You" 6) Liquor Giants - "Riverdale High" 7) Bardo Pond - "Pick My Brain" 8) Pussy Galore - "White Noise" 9) Lyres - "Buried Alive" 10) Bassholes - "Cabooseman Blues"
      Up With People
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • THEY SHOULD BE GIANTS
      		 Up With People
      Liquor Giants
      Manufacturer: Elas
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0000506WB
      Release Date: 2000-10-04

      Tracks:

      1. Fifth Wheel Time
      2. Way Underground
      3. Someday Thoughts
      4. Listen to the Robins Sing
      5. Town Bike
      6. Everytime
      7. Half a Million
      8. Industry Hookers
      9. Mach Show
      10. Days Of
      11. Whore
      12. All of the Assholes
      13. Things

      Album Description

      Fifth album for L.A. based act featuring singer/songwriter/producer Ward Dotson (Gun Club, Pontiac Brothers). 13 gorgeous, classic pop songs that draw comparisons to Alex Chilton,The Replacements, The Beatles and Blur. Aussie version features exclusive artwork. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars THEY SHOULD BE GIANTS.......2001-01-23

      I can understand why these guys have not found mass success. They're far too good to go up that road. But I'm baffled why Ward Dotson & Company have not garnered any more ink in alternative circles.

      On the Liquor Giants' first (now OOP) album seven years ago, they were the missing link between Alex Chilton and The Replacements. They have since evolved into a group that has displayed originality even as it wears its 60's influences on its sleeve. Having since covered songs by mid-period Kinks, the Bobby Fuller 4, Del Shannon and Dusty Springfield among others, the Giants on their latest create layered songs that conjure up Brian Wilson, The Move, UK flowerpop and even T. Rex without sounding the least bit derivative. Treat yourself to some original beautifully-crafted three minute poptunes.

      And for God's sake, someone release this in the United States!

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