- - Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
- Artist: The Vivs
- Album: Mouth To Mouth
- Label: Independent
- Playtime: 46:31 min
- Genre: Indie
- URL: http://www.myspace.com/thevivsrock
- Rip date: 2009-11-05
- Street date: 2009-10-22
- Size: 65.38 MB
- Type: Normal
- Quality: 186 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
- - Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
- This may be a debut album, but the Vivs are well-connected to BostonÆs rock
- ÆnÆ roll family tree. Singer Karen Harris fronted Edith, and keyboard player
- and harmony vocalist Terri Brosius played with Tribe. Eric Brosius, TerriÆs
- husband and Tribe mate, produced the album and supplied some extra guitar.
- The disc was engineered by David Minehan of the Neighborhoods, who also
- contributed on guitar and tambourine and even added a bit of whistling. And
- while Jonathan Richman had nothing to do with the CD, he does get a name
- check on Take It on the Chin. All those connections would be meaningless
- without good songs, and Harris provides them, along with some
- almost-too-clever wordplay (I never saw the Eiffel Tower. . . . IÆd rather
- have an eyeful of you). A teacher and mother of two, she explores the
- minefields of domestic life, delivering her tales with a voice reminiscent of
- Amy Rigby, who created another mom-rock classic, Diary of a Mod Housewife in
- 1996. The rest of the local band (Matt Magee on guitar, Jim Collins on bass,
- and Scott Rogers on drums) supplies as many hooks as a pirate family reunion,
- with a sound that borrows a bit from the country-rock of Lone Justice and the
- jangle-pop of the early Bangles.
- - Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
- 01. Waking Up ( 3:30)
- 02. Eiffel Tower ( 3:10)
- 03. (You Should Have Seen) The Other Guy ( 4:52)
- 04. Better Now ( 3:57)
- 05. November ( 3:00)
- 06. Falling Off the Wagon (Onto You) ( 4:42)
- 07. Tiger ( 3:35)
- 08. Take It On the Chin ( 4:03)
- 09. Bright Idea ( 4:18)
- 10. You Think You're Going Along ( 3:05)
- 11. Everybody's Got Something ( 3:56)
- 12. I Just Wanna Show You My Garden ( 4:23)
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