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Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground Audio CD

A fair review of the Marcy Playground "Marcy Playground" 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 Marcy Playground reviews here, or go back to the Marcy Playground tabs.

Marcy Playground Band: Marcy Playground
Title: Marcy Playground
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-02-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Poppies 2: Sex and Candy 3: Ancient Walls of Flowers 4: Saint Joe on the School Bus 5: Cloak of Elvenkind 6: Sherry Fraser 7: Gone Crazy 8: Opium 9: One More Suicide 10: Dog and His Master 11: Shadow of Seattle 12: Vampires of New York

Nice Warm-Up
I agree that it needs to be "louder". This album is decent, but not nearly as good as their subsequent two (Shapeshifter and Mp3). Wozniak is an amazing songwriter, but I feel that the producers of this album really robbed it of something by toning everything down. Love them live, and love their other two albums!.


Chill, dude. (Try not to freeze, though...)
It's mellow, downtempo, easy listening, calm, smooth. Not much to say about this one, really. . . does "stoner" qualify? (Hey, the star track is "Sex And Candy"; I think that's a legit question. ) The problem is that downtempo needs to have something to it to be good. It can be sweet and poignant (Jack Johnson), etherally beautiful (Loreena McKennitt), heartful and upbeat (Counting Crows), or edgy (Toad The Wet Sprocket). Marcy Playground, both the band and the self-title album are. . . just there, unfortunately. No big hook, nothing that stands out. If you're into smooth, easy listening, you'll love this. Not a whole lot to recommend/trash otherwise.


Marcy Playground
To my surprise there were some other songs on the CD that were pretty good. I really only purchased this CD because I liked the song "Sex and Candy". On the other hand, there were some other songs that were not that great and that is why my rating stands at the median.


not bad
If you're into hard rockers, avoid this. I just bought this album and its growing on me with every listen. Its a mellow album with some strange songs on it. Opium is a nice cut :D.


Great Debut
Though they don't have the heavy pounding guitar or the crazy screaching. Marcy Playground one of many bands that came out during the grunge era. Trading in all the grunge trade marks for a softer touch and much deeper vocals. "Poppies" a wonderful opening track and not a total slowdown song. After progressing through "Sex And Candy" and "Ancient Walls Of Flowers" the tracks to begin to fall short of the melody. Soon the tracks become lost in a state of mellowness in wich it's just way to light htat you almost don't realize what track your on. (Or if it's still playing for that matter)

If you pay close attention the songs are pretty detailed and the lyrics and acoustic mix very well for every song. The tracks do sadly drag on, but if you really just listen they are for the most part good. The standards of the first three tracks were set to high for a band that later achieved not much more then a few applauds for 1 track.
I enjoyed the enitre album enough that i think everyone should listen to it atleast a few times.


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