Gossip - Music For Men

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Le Tigre
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cansei De Ser Sexy

Release Date

06/23/2009

Label

Columbia

Tracklist

1. Dimestore Diamond
2. Heavy Cross
3. 8th Wonder
4. Love Long Distance
5. Pop Goes The World
6. Vertical Rhythm
7. Men In Love
8. For Keeps
9. 2012
10. Love And Let Love
11. Four Letter Word

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Music For Men is an album you want to love. You really do. But still, there is a little red devil in you that appears on your shoulder to say, “Listen to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or any other female-fronted punkwave band instead.” And most often, it is the devil who wins, despite a valiant effort from the angelic telling you to go listen to Gossip.

A perfect example of why there is such an internal dilemma over Gossip is the single “Heavy Cross”. Sure, it is a catchy song for the first few times you hear it, and there are enough layers to keep fans of TV on the Radio warm, but then you notice it… that “oooh oooh ooh ooh OHOOHHH”… and that little chant that vocalist Beth Ditto throws in several times throughout the four-minute run time... it just starts to bug you. And such is the same with many of the other tracks on Music For Men. Despite some of these annoyances, songs like “Vertical Rhythm” and the electro-fying “Pop Goes The World” are solid dancepunk numbers that will undoubtedly make the sweat pour down your face at a live show.

Music For Men is ultimately an album that falls victim to the little things – a chant here, a riff there, all of “Men In Love”, etc. But it is not an album to be despised. If anything, you want to love it as much as it wants you to, and for that alone it is worth at least a single listen. Who knows, maybe the angel will end up winning one of these arguments.

--Logan Broger

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logan37
Last updated: 09/29/2009 09:04PM

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Rick Gebhardt
07/14/2009
12:06PM
Age: 31
Location
Minnesota

This band is horrible.  The only way to listen to this band is when you're wearing these:

Find me EVERYWHERE:

Mike Duchnowsky
07/16/2009
07:11AM
Age: 27
Location
West Haven, CT

I sort of like this band.
I like the fact that Jordan Blilie has a fraternal twin sister who is in Gossip.


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