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Girls & Weather | 
| Artist: The Rumble Strips
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 18820
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 38
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517364486
EAN: 0602517364486
ASIN: B000RHR7LG
Release Date: September 17, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | No Soul | | • | Alarm Clock | | • | Building A Boat | | • | Girls And Boys In Love | | • | Oh Creole | | • | Motorcycle | | • | Time | | • | Clouds | | • | Don't Dumb Down | | • | Cowboy | | • | Hate Me (You Do) | | • | Hands |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
They're good clean fun. "I don't like doing things that other folks tell me to do, so I hit him with a hammer, and now he's quite subdued". Well, clean-ish at any rate. The Rumble Strips are a real anomaly in a nation where jeering at talent show rejects is the pastime of choice. Relatively image-free, they carry nostalgia for an England of yore where boys could carry conkers in their coat pockets, sip at shandy on special occasions and be happy with their lot, without crossing over into the realm of novelty. Their reliance on thrifty rhythmic foundations, strong vocals and chipper horn arrangements originally places them somewhere between The Housemartins, Madness and Dexy's Midnight Runners, whilst also charging through the kind of frantic, ruffled songwriting that Razorlight thrived on before the lure of the arenas stubbed that right out. Charlie Waller is a terrific lead vocalist too, and never short of reams of witty, wholesome lyrics. Girls and Weather creates a world where singing about wishing your bike was a motorcycle ("Motorcycle") and lying on your back staring at the clouds ("Clouds") really is good enough. When hammered out with the kind of eccentric panache familiar to patrons of the Mystery Jets, of course it is. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Enjoyable, pleasing and generally a great album March 21, 2008
When I ask my freinds and family if they have heard of "The Rumble Strips" most of them shout "who??" at me. This dissapoints me because for such a good album I wish they would get more publicty and respect. I only heard of them myself after booking my ticket for a festival and seeing their name on the list. I am now so pleased there going.
I was instanley addicted to songs like "Time" and "Girls and Boys in Love" which just got me up singing or dancing to their awesome tunes. After a couple of listens to the album, I can honestly say I haven't found a bad song. "Motorcycle", "Hate Me (You Do)" and "Don't Dumb Down" are my latest favourites. Some of the songs, especially "Time", makes me think that there inspiration could be from a band like "The Killers". It's just an album full of joy, excitment and a sence of being happy as you listen.
It's not gonna be in the top ten bestsellers for a while, but if you want an album and a band which is fresh and lively, then get out your wallet because The Rumble Strips are perfect for you.
As good live January 10, 2008
Its not often you see a group live supporting a much larger band, and they steal the show. This can be said for the Rumble Strips. Charlie Waller's vocals are as clear live as they are recorded.
A must see and a must buy album
Better than Dexys! January 9, 2008
Got the album for Christmas after loving the Alarm Clock single that 6Music have been playing. If ever there was a great album to blow away those January cobwebs it's this one. Great pop songs, an in-your-face brass section and enough pure joy to make me feel 13 again (which funnily enough was when Dexys and The Beat were in their hey-day).
OK, so the Dexys comparison can't go unmentioned but these guys have just taken the best bits of Dexys (throwing out any of Kevin Rowland's attempts to take himself too seriously), thrown in some ska, added a bucketful of sunshine and made something special!
If they can get this much into a CD I can't wait to see what they can do on stage!
 Jangerly Magic December 30, 2007
A very upbeat and happy album, 'Girls and boys in love', 'time' and 'clouds' are all very good songs, and there are no duds.
If you like the kooks, razorlight, The thrills and the ilk you will like this.
Disagree about the Dexys comparison September 27, 2007
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They are far, far better than Dexys. If you listen to the Dexys definitive "Searching For The Young Soul Rebels" you will hear Kevin Rowland sing with his eighties sulky lilt and false American inflexions. No such problems with Charlie Waller of The Strips, he sings in pure English through and through. OK, the Strips have brass, but to say that this then defines them as Dexys copyists is the same as saying that electric guitar means Cliff and the Shadows. Sorry folks, but it is all to easy a lazy comparison. The Rumble Strips are a refreshing and ORIGINAL band with their own sound characterised by Charlie's rhythm section played on a beaten up acoustic guitar retrieved from a skip. Wonderful! The brass has ska origins, but it is used intelligently and is crafted so well into the beat and rhythm. Buy and enjoy folks, as this will be a classic in your collection!
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