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Mando Diao - Ode to Ochrasy Audio CD

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Mando Diao Band: Mando Diao
Title: Ode to Ochrasy
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-04-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Welcome Home Luc Robitaille 2: Killer Kaczynski 3: Long Before Rock'n'roll 4: The Wildfire 5: You Don't Understand Me 6: Tony Zoulias 7: Amsterdam 8: TV & Me 9: Josephine 10: The New Boy 11: Morning Paper Dirt 12: Good Morning Herr Horst 13: Song For Aberdeen 14: Ochrasy

Ochrasy is life
Ode to Ochrasy is their third studio album. Mando Diao's probably the best Swedish band ever. The variation of the songs on this album is wide. Although moast of the songs are similar to each other, each one has it's own unique style and sound. I would call Mando's music "happy-deep" rock. It makes you feel good and puts you into a better mood then you were in before, but you also feel the lyrics and what the guys want to say.

I would like to recommend the songs "Long before rock'n roll" and "The wildefire (If it was true)" There are awesome! .


it does not get more average than this

the 1st album was near perfect, while the 2nd one only had near perfect moments. sorry folks, but this band may not be in steep decline, but they sure are living the old adage of the "law of diminishing returns".
along comes the 3rd record, and guess what? not nearly as good as the first two. there really is nothing wrong with the playing and singing. it just seems like the writing is letting this band down.
oh, nothing on here sucks to be sure, but it's just that everything here is so forgettable it leaves one wondering if they're completely out of ideas this far into their short career.
don't get me wrong, these guys are still better than a lot of bands working the road out there (thus the 3 stars), but it's just that, given the talent the band obviously has, they should be able to put out much better product than this.


One of the best Cd's ever
If you don't own this cd or any of their others than you are missing out. Mando Diao is the greatest. .


Amazzing
Well, we both love them, he acctually got to go see them in concert, and when I play the CD at work people are always asking who it is. When my friend first told me about Mando diao and this album I figured that it would be another indie band that we would both love and no one else would care about. This band is brilliant! Thats the best way I can explain them. I've gotten some of thier other CDs now, but this is by far thier best. the others are worth the purchase though.


Sometimes cocky works
While some might see this as pretentious, such as I, it actually really really works for them. Similar to Kasabian, Mando Diao has proclaimed that their music is just as good if not better than anyone they have drawn their influences from. Without that type of attitude, I'm not entirely sure that they could have made all three of their albums as good as they are.

After looking back at both Bring 'Em In and Hurricane Bar, it's really impressive to see how far Mando Diao has come in such a small time. While I think I like Hurricane Bar better than Ochrasy just a little because I heard it first, Ode to Ochrasy is a great direction to go from there. So many of the songs are true classics and the styles are varied while remaining true to the Mando Diao formula. Such examples in my opinion are "Josephine" (One of my personal favorites), "Wildfire (If it was True)", and the title track "Ochrasy".

Let me also take this opportunity to recommend to everyone who likes Ode to Ochrasy or any of Mando Diao's albums to try very hard to see them live. They put on one of the most high energy shows I've ever seen, second only to Dir En Grey, though in an entirely different way I assure you.

In short, Ode to Ochrasy is an amazing album and will bring even more fans to Mando Diao than they currently have, which is growing fast. The same cocky attitudes towards their music like their previous albums and they show no signs of slowing down, pick this one up.


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