Men_Women_And_Children-Men_Women_And_Children-(Advance)-2006-RTB
ARTIST: Men, Women, & Children
TITLE: Men, Women, & Children
LABEL: Reprise Records
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 234kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 41m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-03-14
RIP DATE: 2006-01-12
Track List
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1. Dance In My Blood 4:18
2. Lightning Strikes Twice In New York 3:13
3. Photosynthesis (We're Losing O2) 3:14
4. Who Found Mister Fabulous? 3:48
5. Messy 3:22
6. At Night I Like To Fight 3:48
7. Monkey Monkee Men 2:24
8. Time For The Future (Bang Bang) 3:19
9. The Name Of The Train Is The Hurricane 3:37
10. Celebracion! 3:34
11. Sell Your Money 3:30
12. Vowels 3:24
Release Notes:
When you think about it, says Men, Women & Children guitarist Todd Weinstock,
there was a time where this seemed like a joke. Now, its become everything.
Really, I have no friends. This is all we do. Two years ago, Weinstock would
have never predicted that the far-fetched idea he began kidding about with his
friend, programmer Nick Conceller, would overtake his life and lead him to a
nationwide tour with English socio-punk trailblazers Gang Of Four or the
recording of the bands Reprise Records debut, but it has. Which is why its even
more ironic that Men Women & Children began as a sort of well-kept secret. Like
Weinstock, Conceller (a bedroom DJ from St Louis who had first befriended the
guitarist on tour with his old band, Glassjaw) had grown tired of rocks current
woe-is-me tendencies and wanted to quietly create something that was more a
grand, fun spectacle. Still, their initial plans were only winkingly huge. Even
before we had songs, I would say to Nick, This has to be a production, Weinstock
recalls with a laugh. It had to be over the top. There had to be lights and
production. This couldnt just be an ordinary show with five guys standing on
stage in t-shirts and jeans. We just thought, Huge.
But now, this is the reality in which Men, Women & Children currently exist.
Things are over the top and huge and just as Weinstock hoped, the band
(Weinstock, Conceller, singer TJ Penzone, brother/bassist Rick Penzone, drummer
David Sullivan Kaplan and now-permanent guitarist Jason Gimmule) have even
created a live production so ambitious that at their first show in New York
City, their lighting rig caused the power in a tiny Lower East Side club to cut
out five times. But, as evidenced by the crowd that night, the songs the band
has presented alongside this are the real show; upbeat examinations of late
nights that can be both infectious and freeing.
People talk about getting their problems out through music, but theyre usually
just complaining, Weinstock insists. For me, this is cathartic. Its about having
fun. Achieving that balance, however, isnt something that Men, Women & Children
would manage to do overnight.
In its earliest incarnation, the project was a decidedly casual endeavor. It
began with just Kaplan and Weinstock back in New York, who would send
self-recorded tracks of electro, rock and funk leaning works over to Conceller,
who was still living back home in Missouri. There was very little attention
given to making this a full functioning band at the time, and it wasnt until six
months into the process that Conceller relocated to Manhattan. Weinstock was in
Hong Kong when the mixes of the projects first two songs came in (Lightning
Strikes Twice In New York and Dance In My Blood), using a computer in a public
library to download the files. This was not exactly the same as five guys
jamming in a basement. That was hard for me because Ive never done anything this
way, Weinstock says. Before, I was always in a band and then the band went and
recorded. With this there were no givens. We didnt know for sure what was going
to happen.
Penzone, an old friend from growing up in Long Island, was the first to join the
developing Men, Women & Children fold; he promptly composed the lyrics for Dance
In My Blood after hearing the songs demo driving around with Weinstock. He
became the singer, Weinstock jokes, because he was the one sitting next to me.
TJ quickly drafted his brother Rick, a multi-instrumentalist who added a whole
new element to the band. Gimmule was later asked to join as a touring member but
he had to wait for the band to finish writing their debut. (Originally they
figured this would last five months; try a year-and-a-half.) The general writing
process for the bands debut was that for every one song that was recorded, three
versions of it were written. Theyd spend months analyzing the music and the
intensity of this process soon lead to a unique and at times caustic inner-band
relationship.
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