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Killing Heidi - Reflector Audio CD

Band: Killing Heidi Title: Reflector Rating: Release Date: 2001-03-20 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Mascara 2: Weir 3: Superman/Supergirl 4: Astral Boy 5: Leave Me Alone 6: You Don't Know 7: Jar Labelled Small 8: Class Celebrities 9: Live Without It 10: Real People 11: Jon's Song 12: Black Sheep

The Mavis's were a band led by a kooky-looking brother and sister from rural Victoria who combined insanely catchy pop hooks with noisy guitar. Everybody knows or should know that Killing Heidi are nothing more than a poor man's Mavis's, or rather, a watered-down, mass-market-acceptable, cynical record company executive's version of the Mavis's. Unfortunately they were a bit edgy and challenging for the mainstream pop audience. What has clearly happened is some record company genius has said "What we need is a band like the Mavis's, but one that is a bit safer, and will do what it is told. " Hence Killing Heidi. I couldn't and still can't believe the amount of record company hype they had behind them - even before they had a record out they were in Melbourne's best selling newspaper virtually every day - their publicist must be the hardest working man (or woman) in show business.
Killing Heidi are a perfect example of the cynicism of the music business which has inflicted on us such lame acts as Bush, Creed and all the other god-awful acts we have to put up with on a daily basis.
I'd say more, but it's time for my lunch break. . . (likes the Smashing Pumpkins, fer pete's sake!!)

What's the record like? Lousy, obviously.

AMAZING
Ella's vocals can not be beat. Every song on this cd is incredible. And the lyrics her and her bro wrote are awesome. They are a wonderful live band as well as in the studio. It is a must have cd please buy. The new cd is awesome as well listen to the new heavensent single and spread the word!.

Great Music From A Young Aussie Band
As with any CD there are a couple which don't qualify for `song of the year' but none of them should prevent you from buying `Reflector. Killing Heidi have released a great CD here. ' Killing Heidi would have to be one of the best live acts around these days. This is amazing considering they are a young Aussie band. It takes a lot to be a great live act considering most music today is created with a lot of help from computer generated sound effects. Killing Heidi need none of this, but this CD is not live so no need to worry if they were terrible live. All they need is lead singer Ella Hooper's voice. Its fantastic and hard to rival. Listen out for the highlights of the CD; the radio hits Mascara, Weir, Live Without It and Superman/Supergirl. Those are to name a few. The less known but brilliant songs on the CD are Astral Boy and A Jar Labelled Small. All songs are written by the brother and sister Ella and Jesse Hopper who couldn't have done a better job. This CD can be listened to over and over again and is a pleasure each time. Worth a little money for a lot of entertainment. >Enjoy<.

Not girl-punk by any means but they rock
Ella Hooper, the teenage lyricist and front-girl, is fairly incredible with a voice that would be hard to match. Killing Heidi, although too poppy for many, rock much harder than many bands today. The rest of the band (including Ella's brother Jesse) puts out some great music to back up Ella. Together they've got an album that's, not only really good, but totally fun to listen to. Grab this if a radio-friendly track or two don't force you to turn up your elitist nose.

They told me it was girl punk
However, upon purchasing "Reflector" I found it was a series of bubblegum pop ripoffs sung by a lead singer with a much too radio friendly voice to ever be considered good punk. I bought this album with the vague hope of it resembling a girl punk band as numerous magazines proclaimed it was. I guess its alright as far as bubblegumpopripoffs go, but whoever wrote the reviews for the album need to put their thinking caps on.

You can see a complete list of all Killing Heidi discography, or go back to the Killing Heidi tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.