Echo Park

First of all, I'm not a super major Feeder fan. I've only heard "Polythene" and "Yesterday Went Too Soon" and liked Yesterday better. That being said, "Echo Park" is the best of those three.This album is solid from beginning to end. I had a hard time picking a favorite tune. In fact, it was one of the best albums I've heard since Embrace's "Out of Nothing." It's one of those just-push-play kind of albums. The content and form of each song is fitting: the rockers kick, and the ballads were true to themselves, not wimpy or contrived.Check out: Satellite News, Piece by Piece, Turn, Seven Days..., and Under the Weather for a good sampling. Buy this and let your friends borrow it.

Awesome album!! Originally purchased because I wanted the "Buck Rogers" tune from the movie "Behind Enemy Lines" with Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson. I was pleasantly surprised that I liked the whole album.

If you are a fan.....then enough said.

In many ways, this record can be considered as a new chapter in Feeder's career, suggesting that the band has left behind their underground stardom in order to fully cross over into the mainstream; although their previous albums and singles had sold in respectable numbers, „Echo Park" was the band's real artistic and commercial triumph and has sold more than 100.000 copies so far - for a variety of reasons: First and foremost, Feeder managed to pull no less than four brilliant singles from „Echo Park", with two of them shooting into the UK top 20 single charts. Second, the album features a decidedly more pop feel than all its predecessors: The dynamic production fully fleshes out the melodies and lends a superb drive to such rocky numbers as „Buck Rogers" and „Seven days...", while the vocals of Grant Nicholas, who also wrote all the songs and has evolved into the role of the band's visionary, wrap around the music with more flexibility and confidence than they ever did before. Whereas other indie-rock bands often struggle to come up with half-way memorable songs that keep the listener coming back for more than one time, Feeder simply explode with utter catchiness here, both lyrically and musically. In short, they pull off everything we like about those early-'90s dance-rock bands such as Chapterhouse, combine it with everything we love about the immediate guitar attack of grunge rockers like Foo Fighters, and on top of it garnish the whole thing with the sing-along melodies of the more meaningful pop-punk outfits such as The Breeders and Weezer. The two biggest hits on the album, the already mentioned „Buck Rogers" and „Seven days...", are both superb examples of the band's abilities - „Buck Rogers" starts with a moody bass line and rather restrained vocals, but the refrain with its fierce guitar drilling is so gripping that it's impossible to resist the sheer energy that bursts out of the speakers. "Seven days...", while working in a similar vein musically, displays how Feeder even at their most convincingly radio-friendly sometimes love to approach things from a slightly ironic angle, even if the lyrics are somewhat trite. The volatile opener „Standing on..." is another winner, effortlessly mixing sweet-sounding verses with rumbling dance beats and interludes full of all-out guitar thrash. In general, the album's first half does make for a great listen by any yardstick, although „We can't rewind", „Turn" and „Piece by piece" may come off as slightly unmemorable first because they do not feature that big guitars and tension-filled refrains that distinguish the best numbers on this disc. But „Piece by piece" with its strange, repetitive stop-start rhythm and rather dreamy vocal delivery improves with each listen and ensures that even the band's softer and more reflective stuff can make a lasting impact on the listener. However, after the appropriately titled, charming „Turn" it's mostly downhill as some of the album's remaining numbers get a bit mired in cacophony and weak songwriting when compared against the highlights of "Echo park" and "Polythene". The best offering on the disc's second half is the 5 ½-minute „Satellite news" (taken from the CD-single release of "Piece by piece" and added as a bonus piece to the UK edition of "Echo park"), a fairly melodic tune that weaves together ringing guitars and thoughtful lyrics with a strangely hollow, slow dance rhythm. "Choke" and "Tell all..." get the tag of 'not bad'; these songs are not inferior by general standards but simply do not stand up to "Buck Rogers" or "Seven days...". Unfortunately, the album-closing tracks „Under the weather" and „Bug" are truly marred by a muddy, flat-sounding mix and lots of unnecessary distortion, with "Bug" being a particularly unsettling and forced exercise in heaviness. It should be said, though, that these missteps are clearly in the minority here and do not detract much from what is a bloody good pop-punk album.As an interesting bonus, the Japanese edition of "Echo Park" contains four additional tracks originally recorded for the "Just a day" EP and the CD-single releases of "Buck Rogers", so the import version is well worth tracking down for fans who do not want to buy the often-desired "Just a day" song separately. In sum, "Echo Park" confirms that Feeder have truly created some engaging and uplifting music which could be the perfect soundtrack for your next beach party; if they were Americans and on a major label, the critics as well as the record-buying public would be jumping up and down about it.

SATELLITE NEWS.to tell you the truth, this really isn't a very good album. compared to the WONDERFUL "yesterday went too soon", this album seems horrible. however, this is one of the most important albums that i own, for one reason: satellite news. i was tempted to rate the album a 5 just because of this song, but i decided not to, because the album as a whole really doesn't deserve such a rating.this song hits me so hard, though. it's one of my favorite songs of all time (and i've heard numerous numerous numerous songs). it just takes me. all of my favorite songs take me. and usually because they're so sad. songs that hit me emotionally. my two favorite songs ever are the only two songs that have ever made me cry. but this song is different than any of my other favorite songs. this song takes me in a good way. a positive way.it starts off with that beautiful music. so lovely. and so mellow, and depressing.and then..you will never keep me down!you can never keep me down!i want to lift my self up to the sky!serenade the stars as I pass bywanna leave it all just for a whilei'll be satellite newsi wanna lift myself above the cloudscut the ropes around me!you'll see me shine!shine like the sun!!!wow!when it changes into "you will never keep me down!", it just hits me so hard, and then it goes even further into a musical orgasm of emotions, while the ropes around me have been cut, and i'm soaring into the sky.. flying.. free.. and shining!i'd love to tell the singer how much this song means to me. i wonder if he even knows how great this song is.ok, now that i've discussed that song, onto the other songs.imo, oxygen is the only other song on the album that's really good. all of the other songs are good, though, with a few which are rather weak, like "choke" and "under the weather", and some lame lyrics every now and then.

Cd was for my son. He loves the album and it plays well. However, the case was smashed upon arrival. I felt it petty to return as the cd, as it plays fine. Very disappointed upon first impressions

Classic album that I used to listen in my childhood. There's not much else to say, I love Feeder and their music and this album has some great songs on it that make me nostalgic.

Good music. If you like them

Not sure how I lived without this. Neighbours love it too (they have no choice)

great album. one of their best.