Keep on Your Mean Side

keep on your mean side

Track Listings
1. Superstition
2. Cat Claw
3. Pull a U
4. Kissy Kissy
5. Fried My Little Brains
6. Hand
7. Hitched
8. Black Rooster
9. Wait
10. Fuck the People
11. Monkey 23
12. Gypsy Death & You

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Keep on Your Mean Side
Keep on Your Mean Side
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Not for everyone
  • this is not white stripes
  • Good if you've never heard Discount before.
  • Por fin
  • Where's That Confounded Bridge?
 Keep on Your Mean Side
The Kills
Manufacturer: Rough Trade
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008O31B
Release Date: 2003-04-01

Tracks:

  1. Superstition
  2. Cat Claw
  3. Pull A U
  4. Kissy Kissy
  5. Fried My Little Brains
  6. Gypsy Death & You
  7. Hand
  8. Hitched
  9. Black Rooster
  10. Wait
  11. Fuck The People
  12. Monkey 23

Amazon.com

The Kills' debut is a stark 21st Century blues album, the sort of thing that would have struggled to find an audience before the White Stripes broke into the mainstream. So it's lucky for them--and us--that they had such respectable coattails to ride on. The duo--Alison Mosshart, a.k.a. VV, and Hotel--play a music that's blues influenced with a garage rock edge, and that's where the similarities end. Sure, the Kills use a drum machine instead of a live drummer, but the differences run much deeper than that: The Kills's blues rock is dirtier and more sex-drenched version of blues rock, a result of the shared vocal duties of Hotel and VV. The sultry "Hitched" says it all ("I'll get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get hitched"). These are songs that sweat sexual menace, recalling Boss Hogg or early PJ Harvey (on "Superstition" and "Wait," VV's voice is a dead ringer for young Polly Jean's). Best of all, these songs are stuffed with hooks. In a sea of pretenders, the Kills are capable of providing some genuine competition for the White Stripes.--Robert Burrow

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Not for everyone.......2006-02-28

Be wary, this disc is not for everyone. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that most people would really dislike this album. I also don't think giving this album a once-or-twice-over at a friend's house would be necissarily beneficial. Borrow it from someone for awhile if you really want a first impression, but it takes a few listens to get used to the differences between this and alot of other bands. If you're willing to take a chance, go for it, buy this disc and don't give up on it until you're thoroughly convinced it's either fantastic or terrible.

5 out of 5 stars this is not white stripes.......2005-09-15

white stripes suck, this album actually is good and has talent

3 out of 5 stars Good if you've never heard Discount before........2005-01-09

If you're a fan of Discount(Allison's old band) this album can be a dissapointment; if not you'll enjoy it.

5 out of 5 stars Por fin.......2004-10-01

musica fresca original y alejada de topicos ,convencionalismos y mariconadas varias. En mi opinion uno de los mejores discos que he oido en los ultimos años.

1 out of 5 stars Where's That Confounded Bridge?.......2004-07-24

Oh, where to start with this album? Perhaps with the complete lack of original, solid musical ideas--Every blessed song is a two-chord riff lifted from beginner blues riff books, Black Sabbath and a variety of other notables, stripped of course of the power, feeling and (most importantly) chord changes to OTHER notes that differentiate real music from two-chord bong-smoking jam room dirges. Perhaps with the vocals, which, try as they might to sound jaded and bored, sound only boring and suspiciously like the cheesy vocalist from the faux-blues epic Black Velvet of a few years back. Other songs steal vocal mannerisms from The Velvet Underground, notably Maureen Tucker. In describing their vocal sound, unexceptional is far too generous. They are like the boiled-down bottom-scrapings of 10,000 bad bar-band singers. Perhaps it's the intentionally scratchy street recordings of stoner pals, calculated to sound as strung-out and rotten-toothed as possible with their totally fake content about hustling, etc... These remind me of nothing so much as Janis Joplin's brain dead stage rantings (hey man, hey man) which while excruciating were at least real, not the mimicry of suburbanite faux-junkies slumming in the real world of suffering and economic deprivation. This explains the attachment (for all the wrong reasons) to the Velvet Underground , and reminds me strongly of the dishonesty of the Cowboy Junkies, another fake-ass pseudo band, who coyly skirted around with the idea that they might have tried heroin, maybe...If these guys are not actually grad students studying post-structuralism, I'll eat my hat. Most egregious of all is the appalling cover art and booklet, which, if you didn't get it, totally hammers you on the head with the idea that The Kills are for real, yo--liner notes detailing the death of a friend by overdose, which carefully mentions a needle exchange,nodding out, turning blue and a variety of other clues to let us know that they are indeed in the know. Yeah, I saw Trainspotting too. Putrid beyond words, and totally of the moment in the most fake-real fakey way possible: fake low-fi sound, fake blues, fake street cred, fake everything. If you want a real contemporary indie take on the blues that isn't just copy-cat grad-school thievery, check out the new album by the Eagles of Death Metal, called Peace, Love and Death Metal. It's everything this fake turd is not: witty, heavy and light simultaneously, and fun. It's also, unlike The Kills, NOT navel-gazing narcissistic humbug that doesn't have a clue how much it sucks. I gave one star because they didn't have a choice for no stars on the menu. Amazon should have negative interger stars for stuff like this. As a notable rocker once said, do you ever get the feeling you've been cheated? What a waste...
Keep on Your Mean Side
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    		Keep on Your Mean Side
    The Kills
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00008A8KT
    Release Date: 2003-04-04

    Tracks:

    1. Superstition
    2. Cat Claw
    3. Pull a U
    4. Kissy Kissy
    5. Fried My Little Brains
    6. Hand
    7. Hitched
    8. Black Rooster
    9. Wait
    10. Fuck the People
    11. Monkey 23
    12. Gypsy Death & You

    Album Description

    2003 debut album by London formed boy-girl duo made up of former Scarfo member, Jamie Hince & former vocalist of the mid-nineties US punk pop act, Discount. For fans of The White Stripes & Royal Trux. Domino.
    Keep on Your Mean Side
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Keep on Your Mean Side
      Kills
      Manufacturer: Treasure
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      Lo-FiLo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      Garage PunkGarage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B00008OJZ9
      Release Date: 2003-05-19

      Tracks:

      1. Superstition
      2. Cat Claw
      3. Pull A U
      4. Kissy Kissy
      5. Fried My Little Brains
      6. Hand
      7. Hitched
      8. Black Rooster
      9. Wait
      10. Fuck The People
      11. Monkey 23
      12. Gypsy Death And You
      13. Dropout Boogie
      14. Gum

      Album Details

      Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: 'dropout Boogie (Live)', and 'gum'. Also Includes a Live Video Performace of 'wait'.
      Keep on Your Mean Side
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Keep on Your Mean Side
        The Kills
        Manufacturer: Rough Trade Us
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
        Lo-FiLo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
        Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
        Garage PunkGarage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
        Garage RockGarage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
        Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B0007M7O3C
        Release Date: 2005-01-25

        Tracks:

        1. Superstition
        2. Cat Claw
        3. Pull a U
        4. Kissy Kissy
        5. Fried My Little Brains
        6. Hand
        7. Hitched
        8. Black Rooster
        9. Wait
        10. Fuck the People
        11. Monkey 23
        12. Gypsy Death & You

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