| A Giant Dog / Toy |
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| Album: | Toy | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | A Giant Dog | Added: | Sep 2017 | |
| Label: | Merge Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-09-08 | Pull Date: | 2017-11-10 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 12 | Nov 5 | Oct 29 | Oct 22 | Oct 15 | Oct 8 | Oct 1 | Sep 24 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 08, 2017: | The Fuzz Deli Bendover | 4. | Oct 22, 2017: | Homeroom Bendover | |
| 2. | Nov 02, 2017: | Totally A Night Terror | 5. | Oct 21, 2017: | Music Casserole Angst In My Pants | |
| 3. | Oct 27, 2017: | Quite Gnarly Bendover | 6. | Oct 19, 2017: | Totally A Night Terror |
| Album Review |
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| Super Chuck Reviewed 2017-09-04 | ||
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The fourth album from Austin, Tx.’s A Giant Dog fuses the gaudy delivery of 1970s rock and the pillars of modern punk. Its songs offer lyrics about sex without typical depictions of love. A Giant Dog's modus operandi is well-established. Lines between punk, glam rock, and art-pop running like watercolors in a pre-K classroom. Toy is a more-than-worthy successor to last year’s excellent Pile opus, gnawing away at your affections with carefree abandon – an oversized canine you’ll be glad to see off the leash. Like: Bleached, The Coathangers, White Reaper. FCC on 2, 5, 6, 9, 13. Play: 3, 6, 11, 12. 1. Get Away (2:31) Harmony and unusually pop-filled jam. 2. Fake Plastic Trees (3:01) Fast power chords, up-beat drums, saucy singing and free spirited lyrics. 3. Bendover (3:02) Brimming with silly, but fiery harmonizing with aggressive guitars. 4. Toy Gun (3:47) Pop Punk with aggressive guitars and an harmony sax. 5. Lucky Ponderosa (3:09) Up beat drums pop vocals fuzzy guitar. 6. Photograph (2:47) Relentlessly fun pop-punk riffs, with funny lyrics. 7. Roller Coaster (3:24) Repetitive guitar and the vintage sounding vocals filled with anger-ridden lyrics. 8. Angst in My Pants (3:42) Cover of Sparks' New Wave classic, rocking in mid-Seventies style. 9. Tongue Tied (2:27) Mid tempo Pop Punk fast bass lines and guitar riffs. 10. Hero for the Weekend (3:17) Indie punk jam with melodic vocals. 11. Making Movies (2:28) Happy indie pop that turns into pop punk. 12. Night Terror (2:33) Mid tempo aggressive guitars and punchy drums. 13. Survive (3:31) Left-field power-ballad that builds slowly around guitar circular riffs. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Get Away | 7. | Roller Coaster | |||
| 2. | Fake Plastic Trees | 8. | Angst In My Pants | |||
| 3. | Bendover | 9. | Tongue Tied | |||
| 4. | Toy Gun | 10. | Hero For The Weekend | |||
| 5. | Lucky Ponderosa | 11. | Making Movies | |||
| 6. | Photograph | 12. | Night Terror | |||
| 13. | Survive | |||||