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Hot Water Music - Forever and Counting Audio CD

A fair review of the Hot Water Music "Forever and Counting" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Hot Water Music reviews here, or go back to the Hot Water Music tabs.

Hot Water Music Band: Hot Water Music
Title: Forever and Counting
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Release Date: 1997-10-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Translocation 2: Better Sense 3: Just Don't Say You Lost It 4: Position 5: Rest Assured 6: Manual 7: Minno 8: Three Summers Strong 9: Man the Change 10: Western Grace

Best HWM ever.
I like some of their newer stuff also but this is the one. I saw them after they came out with this, I think it was '99, amazing cd and performance.


The Best of HWM's early (first four) studio releases.
Loud, bulldog voiced anthems of hope, overcoming, endurance, ressurection, defiance, agony, power and dissent. It pulls no punches. Some of the most honest and raw stuff you will hear. No frills. Nothing unnecessary. Just business as usual as one of the world's best bands streamlined their act, back in '97. No navel-gazing, no brooding. The vocal dymanic between Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard is perfected on this Disc: The way they work their call/response/shouting/singing. . . it's like they reinvent the wheel. Songs that change and shift. Songs that crash and tear. Songs that make you shout along. NO BAD TRACKS! Precision thundering drums, power chords that play off each other to build higher like a cathedral's towers- and (a real rarity) melodic, propulsive bass-playing. All you cold ask for. Get this. And pick up the rest too! Technically, this would be their third, though in all honesty it's number 2 for me, as I start counting with "Fuel for the Hate Game. " Their first good, if not great, release (4 stars). "Finding The Rhythms," their true first, is pretty damn awful. So you have permission to skip, but only for that one CD.

. . . Great beards too. takes me back.


Pretty friggin good
I'm definitely going to look into getting more from this band. This album took about 3 listens, and I was hooked.

To describe their music, take the best elements of Samiam, Fugazi and Fuel (Fuel being the east bay punk band, not the lame pop band). There you have Hot Water Music. If I were in a band, this is the music I would strive to play.


Best Hot Water Music CD ever!
They are always touring non-stop and pumping out incredable CDs. I have to disagree with the last review, even though they have put out a lot of CDs, its only because they are the most hard working bands in the biz. Now then, back to the CD, the opener "Translocation" is probably the best song to start off with when you pop it into your CD player ( The only other one better is "220 years"). The songs hits a place in your spirit, all you wanna do is mosh. And thats what is so great about this CD, each song flows perfectly, almost as well as "Moonpies for Misfits". Finally, when the best song ever comes into play, "Manual" ( In fact this is probably one of the best songs they perform live, you really feel the emotion comming off the guitars and the vocals. ) the song itself feels like it lasts "forever", HWM's songs put you into some proverbial emocore trance like no other band can, and this is one of them. Next off is "Minno", trully a great harmonic song, perfect harmonizing and drumming. And how can I forget the double bass drumming on "Man the Change"!? Shew just buy this CD even if you've never heard of them before, might take time to get used to them, but trust me, they'll be your favorite band in no time.


HWM's prettiest album
No band will ever compare the their patented sound. Hot Water Music has made a name for themselves by perfectly concocting the rough edges of hardcore punk with unbelievable original melodies that are as beautiful as they are crafted. 'Forever and Counting' was the first full length LP released by the band, and is without a doubt their smoothest. 'Just Don't Say You Lost It' and 'Minno' have a higher pedigree of sentimentality then most of the group's latter songs, yet songs like 'Manual' and 'Three Summers Strong' contain the Fugazi-ish hardedged melodies. Chuck's bass still flows and Jason's voice still sounds like a drunken madman, and it is proof that though not excactly the same, Hot Water Music have utilized their elements correctly through the course of their recording career.


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