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Geoff Useless - Don't Stop (2010)
 MP3 CBR 320 | 32:02 min |  74 MB
alt Country / Folk Rock / a better cure from the holidays hangover!

Geoff Useless has seen a lot since starting out as bass player for punk legends' The Queers. He's played with the Nobodys and started the highly acclaimed pop-punk band The Guts. Now the local Portsmouth, New Hampshire punk prodigy is teaming up with the areas most talented musicians and writing tunes that'd make Brian Wilson jealous. Rock & Roll has never been that good.

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Geoff Useless has long been a master of ultra-catchy power-pop and pop-punk in bands like The Guts and She's A Guy (he's also toured as a member of the Queers). But on "Don't Stop", he indulges his country side, adding a lot of twang (along with some pedal steel, fiddle, and acoustic guitars) on a collection of bright, sassy cowpunk tunes. While the instrumentation and arrangements go country, Geoff's ingratiating, boyish vocals still sell the tunes, his lyrical wit remains intact, and of course Country-Western's as catchy as pop-punk anyway. Geoff throws in The Beatles cover ("I've Just Seen A Face") and The Guts cover ("Easy Come, Easy Go") and there are still traces of Geoff's pop-punk proclivities on some of the backup vocals and power-pop choruses. Your enthusiasm for this album will depend on your regard for Country-Western tropes and the trebly sound of pedal steel replacing the usual punk-rock sonics of electric guitars and bass.

~ Jim Testa, Jerseybeat.com


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Tracklist:

01. Don't Stop
02. Leaving
03. Loser / listen
04. Ghost
05. All Bets Off
06. I've Just Seen A Face
07. Good From Afar
08. Breaking Down / listen
09. Love And Mercy
10. Easy Come Easy Go
11. Tell Me What
12. Nothing Compares
13. The Best Thing

all songs written by Geoff Palmer except:
"All Bets Off" by Drew Brown, "The Best Thing" by Zach Uncles,
"I've Just Seen A Face" by Lennon/McCartney, "Love And Mercy" by Brian Wilson

Engineered & Mixed by Dan Gottlieb at the Rat House, Parsippany, New Jersey, April 16-20, 2000
Mastered by Drew Brown.

• Geoff Useless - vocals, guitar
• Zach Uncles - pedal steel
• Sarah Spaltrineri - fiddle
• Drew Brown - bass, vocals
• Zack Sprague - drums, vocals

guest musicians:
- Mark McDonald: guitar on "All Bets Off"
- Dave Talmage: banjo on "All Bets Off"
- Joe Stracquatanio: upright bass on "Breaking Down"
- Brian Cassavitis: drums on "Breaking Down"
- Dave Strong, Kevin Eckert & Matt Logie: additional vocals.

Release Date: November 2, 2010
Format: Factory Sealed CD-R
Label: Livid Records
Catalog No.: LiViD-014