Tonic - Lemon Parade
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Free Music Review: One of the greatest....
Hit: 5 Stars
Showcases of songwriting next to Goo Goo dolls, Vertical Horizon, seven mary three and few others. The strong backbone of this album for me is in "Soldiers Daughter" that like "Black Balloon" from Goo (Dizzy up the girl) never ceases to get old or loose flavor. If you don't own it, your missing something.Free Music Review: TOO MANY LEMONS
Hit: 3 Stars
I am a big fan of guitar-driven bands like U2, Collective Soul, Gin Blossoms, Toad The Wet Sprocket and the like so I am always keeping an eye out for new acts, and I guess I missed these guys in their prime. I bought this CD based on the song "If You Could Only See" which was on a 1996 - 1997 compilation CD a friend gave me as part of a birthday present and because of all the highly positive reviews on this website.
Upon listening to this album several times, however, I have to admit disappiontment. "If You Could Only See" is by far the best produced song on the album. While "Open Up Your Eyes" is an okay opener to LEMON PARADE, other driving songs like "Casual Affair" and "Bigot Sunshine" are an incoherent mess with lyrics buried under guitars that offer distortion over music. "Thick" is just annoying, like a bad Cold Play song (which is almost every Cold Play song I might add). I did like "Wicked Soldier" a lot though.
Surprisingly, it turned out to be the calmer songs which I prefer on LEMON PARADE. "Soldier's Daughter", "Mountain" and "My Old Man" all caught my attention. They felt like real songs, not just riffs thrown together.
Here's hoping that Tonic's sophomoric effort SUGAR is better than this or some of my friends are going to get a couple of unexpected Christmas presents. I give this **1/2 out of *****.
Free Music Review: good CD
Hit: 4 Stars
Most people have probably heard the first three songs on this CD, Open Up Your Eyes, Casual Affair, and If You Could Only See. Those were all radio hits in the 1990's. Even if those are the only songs you ever play off this CD, it's still worth it. All great songs. The rest are okay too for more avid fans.Free Music Review: emotional genius
Hit: 5 Stars
I received this album as a random birthday gift back in '03. As a devotee of techno and dance, I didn't expect to like it. However, I stuck it in the stereo and I can honestly say that it was instant love.
Please note that this is not the heavily commercialized "emo" of today, which attempts to bottle our most precious and painful emotions and sell them back to us at $19 a pop, further made synthetic by a sparkly MTV video. This is a raw and beautiful sound, which to me can only be described as "Celtic roadhouse". One thing a lot of people don't seem to realize is that the band is from Markham, Ontario - and their sound is quite distinct to the rainy spring days, vast forests, and industrial towns clinging to the land that make up the side of southern Ontario the tourists don't see. I love that land, so I have quite the deep emotional attachment to this album.
Esoterica aside, most of the songs are very solid. "Celtic Aggression" is heart-wrenchingly lovely, "Wicked Soldier" has the free-spirited sound of a classic Irish ballad, and "Mountain" is somewhere between bluegrass and an earthy torch song. "Open Up Your Eyes" is feel-good, while "If You Could Only See", "Casual Affair", and "Thick" are all soulful masterpieces of human emotion: sometimes languid, sometimes anguished, always reverberating to the core. This is a fantastic album that will never be dated, at least not in my life.
Free Music Review: This is no Lemon!!
Hit: 4 Stars
I bought this CD about a year ago because I wanted "Open Up Your Eyes". My eyes were opened. I frankly didn't know what to expect with Tonic, seeing I had not listened to any of their music except the above-mentioned song. I was pleasantly surprised to hear such great songwriting and musicianship.
If you're expecting "Open Up Your Eyes" parts 2, 3, etc. you won't find it here, and that's a good thing. The band shows a lot of different styles on Lemon Parade and once you give it a listen or two you will count this release as one of your favorites. I went out and bought Sugar soon after and found it to be very good as well, although Lemon Parade, in my opinion, is a little better.