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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sweeeet!, 3 Nov 1999
By A Customer
Yo! Sup? This album KICKS! Buy it!Republica's Speed Ballads brings home feelings of excitment and electric mayhem. From Rush Hour With Love pulls you in with Saffrons sassy vocals while Nothings Feeling New hit close with their interesting mix of mod (right? modern, I'm an overweight, gun toting american if you can't tell - NOT! - well, gun toting anyway;) and unusual imagery. Kung Fu Movies is also fun to listen to (this from a guy who listens to NiN) and is a welcome relief to hear after being savaged with such bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit (in 'da house 'yall). Heres a thumbs up to Republica and a very special Kudos to Saffron, keep it light!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Still great. But the cracks were beginning to show., 4 Jul 2008
I still believe Republica's first album is the stronger of the two but Speed Ballads is by no means a collapse in quality control. The Republica sound is essentially the same, which is no bad thing, and this album carries on where the last one left off. From the rush hour with love, luxury cage and fading of the man are all great tracks but I get the feeling a few b-sides have found their way on to this one, namely pub pusher and kung fu movies. That said, they aren't terrible tracks.
So, if you liked Republica's first album you'll like this. It's a pity the journey ended here, there was more mileage in this band.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as bad as it might have at one point seemed,, 21 Aug 2007
From Rush Hour With Love is a somewhat misleading introduction to the album - sounding like a fully-conscious, standard Republica song; a blatant attempt to keep the people who liked the self-titled record happy, it doesn't really prepare the listener for the creativity that is to come. Fading Of The Man, for instance, always reminded me of Animals-era Pink Floyd - miserable, spacey and quietly unpleasant. Try Everything is a more standard Republica pop song, but I'd say it was a few thousand miles better than From Rush Hour With Love. Luxury Cage, Faster Faster and Nothing's Feeling New are all, well, a bit naff and uninteresting, really. They make up the Dull portion of the album. The next song after that, Millenium, might have been OK before the millenium came and went, but now it's 2007...
However, the last three tracks, Pretty Girl Hate, Kung Fu Movies and Pub Pusher, are all fantastic.
So effectively I've said that 5/10 songs on this album are really good. From Rush Hour With Love's OK, too, so we can call it 6/10. That might sound like "just above average" but I'd definitely consider buying it for those 6 tracks. Shame they couldn't have made it JUST those 6 tracks and called it an EP, really - it would have been a great EP if they had.
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