Product Description

Third album from five piece Brit-rockers who incorporate Moog synth and hip hop elements. 'Hi-Fi Serious' has an acknowledged Van Halen influence and includes the single 'Nothing'.

Track Listing

1. Nothing
2. Something's Going On
3. Six O'clock On A Tube Stop
4. Going Down
5. Took It Away
6. Starbucks
7. Springs
8. Shut Yer Face
9. Pacific Ocean Blue
10. Distance
11. WDYCAI
12. Hi Fi Serious

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32919 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.k Review
As Hi-Fi Serious so ably demonstrates, sometimes it's just a matter of waiting for the rest of the world to catch up with you. Round about the time of their second album Monkey Kong, A were pegged as perfunctory Brit-rock chancers, a poor substitute for their angst-heavy Stateside peers. Come their third album, though, A sound every bit the globe-straddling international rock band.

Marking out the crucial mid-point between the impassioned emo-pop of Jimmy Eat World and the dumb-assed gross-out punk splatter of Blink 182, Hi-Fi Serious is a cackling, cartoonish descent into fearlessly tuneful power-pop larkery. It's saturated in an obvious love for beach-bum Americana: "It's an endless summer/ It's the summer forever" breezes the bronzed power-punk of "Pacific Ocean Blue". And while the five are frighteningly eager to dally like playful puppies through all rock's cheesiest cliches--just check out guitarist Mark Chapman's Eddie Van Halen-style fretwork on "The Distance"--it's always performed with enough charm to win the day. Think the Brits can't do rock? Crank up Hi-Fi Serious and let A put a smile back on your face. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

A at it's best
Being the 'A' fan that I am, I was always gonna like this album, even if it was rubbish. Having listened to Monkey Kong and How ace are buildings, I was expecting this 21st century album to be a modern look at 'A'. How wrong was I? This is A at it's best. Some great guitar riffs, some awesome catchy tunes. The likes of Something's going on and Why don't you cry about it makes me wanna jump around the room singing to it. This is the punk rock that everyone loves about A and I will always listen to it.

Not bad
Good album by A, the obvious highlights are 'Nothing' and 'Starbucks'. A must for any emo/punk rock lovers.

Classic Hi-Fi Serious
On the year of it's release 'Hi-Fi Serious' was brilliant, and at that time, my most played CD. After spending the last year in New Zealand as part of my own on-going songwriters search for inspiration, I have returned to the UK and re discovered it all over again. It's one of those classic CD's that I go back to every once in a while and say to myself...This is just...really good!
It reminds me of summer and these guys have some serious history that shows in the sound.

Just buy it and crank it up...

Jules Fayle-Parr
Currently song writing in the UK.
julesfayleparr@yahoo.co.uk