X - Hey Zeus!
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Artist: XEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-06-08
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Someone's Watching
- Big Blue House
- Clean Like Tomorrow
- New Life
- Country at War
- Arms for Hostages
- Into the Light
- Lettuce and Vodka
- Everybody
- Baby You Lied
- Drawn in the Dark
Free Music Notes for Hey Zeus!
Free Music Review: Better than you might expect... but terrible
Hit: 2 Stars
It pains me that X, one of the great artists of the last 30 years, tainted their great punk legacy with a couple of half cooked pop records in the late 80's - Ain't Love Grand and See How We Are. It must have pained them too, because in making 1993's Hey Zeus, X seems to have abandoned any of the contemporary trappings of those two records and gotten... well, contemporary, but or 1993. The guitars sludge and grind, and are pretty clearly influenced by the grunge and noise that had passed in the years since See How We Are was released. However, those two radio-friendly releases, while being overwhelmingly lousy, each had a great song or two ("Burning House Of Love" "4th of July" "You"). On Hey Zeus, I'm a much bigger fan of the final product - I think it's closer to the type of beat-poet punk they'd like to make. Yet the songs are half cooked at best - "Someone's Watching Me" is dull paranoia, "Clean Like Tomorrow" entices with its lyrics then fails at creating any interesting melody, and songs like "Baby, You Lied" and "Lettuce and Vodka" don't even try. Bad idea as it may be, the grunge sound make the full product better than See How We Are, and it does, actually, create one truly extraordinary song (and, credit where it's due, "Big Blue House" and "Arms For Hostages" would be good filler in a different album) - "Drawn In The Dark," the atmospheric, blazing closer of a song hints at the scuzz that could have driven this band if the rest of the album had earned it.
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