Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 05:44:19 -0700 From: einexile the meek (einexile@NETCOM.COM) Subject: and to make up for that last note Air Miami - me. me. me. ----------------------- 1. I Hate Milk 2. World Cup Fever 3. Seabird 4. Special Angel 5. Afternoon Train 6. Dolphin Expressway 7. Sweet as a Candybar 8. You Sweet Little Heartbreaker 9. Neely 10. Bubble Shield 11. Event Horizon 12. Definitely Beachy 13. Reprise Yes! Yes! Yes! Air Miami kick ass! Who would have known that members of Unrest were capable of writing real songs? You Unrest people...bleagh. I know you all think Air Miami suck: I think they ROCK. All the cool shit you got with Unrest, plus real songs, cool songs, pretty songs, attitude, fun songs, new wave songs, party songs, more attitude, and no stupid test tones or the same chord strumming over and over for 40 minutes. Thirteen songs, a generous helping, but a little too short considering what a fun, cool ride it is. Better yet, they really have put work into this. You can tell that even in its less serious moments care has been taken with the mix and writing and vocal nuances. Okay, a quick run through of the songs: I Hate Milk, an evil little pop song that rocks. World Cup Fever, the mysterious lost Dead or Alive song! names anymore.) Lots of pretty sevenths. Borderline brilliant. Did I mention this album has a cool cover? :) Special Angel, a pretty duet, sad, psychedelic and cute. (Why did I completely ignore it the first four times I listened to this?) Unrest fans, beware! Here comes more great songwriting! Actually, in this very song: bonus great songwriting, but just wait for the next song. :) Have you ever seen so many smileys in one review?? :) Are you not convinced to avoid this album at all costs?? :) Afternoon Train, more of the girl, more pretty sevenths, tacky drum machine which you i LOVE. :) Dolphin Expressway, which I already said I loved, great stuff. Sweet as a Candybar, sounds like a bad Bauhaus demo with Stereolab Chyck singing over it, confused by bad acid--stupid but short and worth the trouble. You Sweet Little Heartbreaker, a rock song, bang bang bang, punky and fun, silly. Neely, very Unresty but with real music, hehehe, surf music with cursing. Even when Air Miami are stupid and lame, they are much cooler than Unrest. :) Bubble Shield, a classic, best song on the album, extremely pretty, beautiful in fact. The Event Horizon, also very pretty but corny and creepy in a seventies way, or a Lush way? I can't tell. Definitely Beachy, kind of like a good Unrest song but with structure and high and low points, nice mellow atmosphere to it. Reprise, just a cute, nice instrumental, very effectively sad. I never was going to give this band a chance but all you Unrest fans hated them so much I thought I would give them a try and now aren't you sorry! Air Miami have a champion and apologist and YOU have created him! Muahahahaha. Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:06:34 -0400 From: Jeff Keibel Subject: New Air Maimi single Coming out on June 15th via TeenBeat will be a remix CD single entitled "World Cup Fever" (originally from the 4AD album "Me Me Me"). This will be TennBeat257 and is released to coincide with the 1998 World Cup. Also, TennBeat has scheduled a tentative release date of September 7th for the Mark Robinson fronted band Flin Flon's debut album. On June 8th, major label acts Tuscadero and Versus release the vinyl versions of their respective albums through TeenBeat. Both bands used to be signed to TeenBeat before moving to the big leagues...