THE BREETLES
01. I Believe In My Love - 4:00
02. Grid Iron Of Dumb Luck - 3:35
03. Alien - 5:15
04. Uncle Plywood - 3:53
05. Alternate Life - 3:58
06. Camp Surprise - 4:38
07. Breaking Up Precious Love - 3:50
08. The Restless Years (Cassandra) - 3:35
09. Two Million Leagues Under The Sea - 3:39
10. Green Shoes - 4:23
11. Askin' Trouble (Live) - 3:17
12. Visitors - 3:24
13. Article Man - 3:01
14. The Big One - 4:53
15. Mr. Market - 3:23
Bonus Tracks:
16. No Fault Soul Chorus Wednesday Wank ??
17. Tears Cried Over You - 3:32
Total Time - 63:37
Format: 8-track cassette portastudio, mixed to consumer dat
Mastered for CD with Sonic Solutions by Bill Kollar, London By Night Productions, Woodbridge NJ
Venue: home, Griggstown NJ
Produced & engineered by Chris Breetveld
Exectutive producer: Greg Shuss
pop god
Artist's notes:
The compact disc people love to love. A loud, in-your-face pop fest recorded with just two microphones, real drums & instruments in a 160-year-old parlor room with pine wood floor, this album of mostly first takes achieves a "let's try anything!" feel of a garage band in heat. 17 songs of pure pop for I HATE TOP 40 people. Critically praised beyond belief.
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–Stewart Mason, All Music Guide |
AMG REVIEW: Chris Breetveld's first proper album as the one-man band cunningly named the Breetles (three cassette-only releases from the '80s preceded it, as well as a few other things under other names), 1995's Pop Go! The Breetles is a catchy collection of straight-ahead power pop songs pitched somewhere between the Shoes and Breetveld's northern New Jersey homeboy R. Stevie Moore. Breetveld is a total classicist when it comes to his rock & roll (inspirations besides the obvious ones include the Move, XTC, and apparently Frank Zappa, who gets a lyrical shout-out in the anthemic "The Big One"), but he also has an endearingly skewed sense of humor that shows up in the appealing oddity of his lyrics. While songs like "Uncle Plywood" and "Grid Iron of Dumb Luck" have their share of funny lines, they're never merely jokey, and sometimes (as on the album highlight, "Alternate Life") the humor masks a bit of pointed social commentary. The album's one flaw is that Breetveld's songs occasionally feel a bit overstuffed: several songs that would be perfect at three minutes and 15 seconds are a tad overlong at over four minutes. Other than that, Pop Go! The Breetles should appeal to fans of Myracle Brah, Cotton Mather, or other bands from the American power pop underground.