BOC: X-Brothers, Heaven Forbid, Brain Surgeons

[Jean Lansford]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John A. Swartz wrote:

>Well, maybe Al should repost Steve Swann's review of *Eponymous*...  ;-)

IIRC, it went:

It's funky, it's rappin', it sucks.

[snip]
>As for *Eponymous*, I like a lot of the material on there, but
>*Trepanation* is by far my favorite tBS album, followed by *Box of
>Hammers* - these 2 albums have a very heavy guitar sound, and sound much
>more like a "band" produced them (because, in fact, tBS became a real
>"band" after *Eponymous*, when they added Hilfiger, Bohovesky, and
>Hirschberg to the live sets).  *Trepanation* is particularly heavy,
>while BoH has a bit more refined feel.

For me, Trepanation then Piece of Work.

Hmm. Now I have to go listen to both back-to-back to figure out why.


Jean Lansford
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