| So Long Astoria |  | Artist: Ataris
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Seller: New Jersey NJ Music and Movies
Sales Rank: 22,168
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 696998618428
UPC: 069699861842
EAN: 0069699861842
ASIN: B00008J2QB
Release Date: March 4, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | so long, astoria | | • | Takeoffs and Landings | | • | In This Diary | | • | My Reply | | • | Unopened Letter to the World | | • | The Saddest Song | | • | Summer '79 | | • | The Hero Dies in This One | | • | All You Can Ever Learn is What You Already Know | | • | The Boys Of Summer | | • | Radio #2 Album | | • | Looking Back On Today | | • | Eight of Nine | | • | I Won't Spend Another Night Alone | | • | The Saddest Song (Acoustic) |
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Product Description
The Ataris' fourth full-length album of new material and their major-label debut on Columbia Records, So Long, Astoria is, musically, another collection of typical speed punk tunes, for fans of Green Day and Blink-182. Features 13 tracks including 'In Thi
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With a handful of indie releases and a few hectic years of touring under their belts, this release marks the Ataris big-label bow. And if the concept uniting it is an ode to the power of memory--a conceit attributed to Richard Hell, but one that ironically might as well have originated with the likes of Billy Joel--Kris Roe and company blitz their way through it with kinetic power and hooks to spare. But therein lies the rub: Fans will find this an album rife with positive energy, bright, well-constructed songs, and upbeat deliveries (if sometimes in service of awkward intellectual pretensions like "Unopened Letter to the World"'s parallels between Kurt Cobain and no less than Emily Dickinson); cynics may hear at as further evidence that punk and alternative rock have been co-opted in service of formulas as well-honed--and rigid--as anything the dreaded Corp Rock '80s ever yielded. Still, if play-it-to-the-back-rows, unabashed power-pop is what the Ataris were after here, they've delivered it with nigh perfection, right down to a slick, pumped up cover of Don Henley's classic-rock warhorse "The Boys of Summer." --Jerry McCulley
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