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Album Details: Performance and Cocktails

Release Date:05/25/1999
Label:Import [Generic]
UPC:5033197044989

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User Reviews: Performance and Cocktails

  • Overall:

    genius

    By Bender Bending Rodriguez  Feb 8, 2002

    P&C is the best guitar rock album I've heard in the last 4 years. It took me a while to get exposed to the Phonics (no thanks to American radio with its Britney-Christina-NSync fetish), but now that I've got the CD's, I can spread the word.Pick a Pa...rt is a perfect pop song, T-Shirt Suntan has a killer chorus, and the rest is great, too. Read more Less

  • Overall:

    Great Alternative Rock Album!

    By theandy99  Jan 14, 2002

    Awesome album, Stereophonics' best. From hard-rocking songs to slower ballad-type songs, it's strong from start to finish. Any fans of British rock should definitely scoop this gem up.

Pro Reviews: Performance and Cocktails

  • All Music Guide

    In December 1998, the Stereophonics released the single "The Bartender and the Thief," which became an unexpected explosion on the charts, peaking at number three in the U.K. In March 1999, the band's sophomore effort, Performance and Cocktails, was released to impressive sales -- it was reportedly outselling Blur's 13 when that album was released. A second single, "Just Looking," also peaked within the U.K. Top Ten, making the first half of 1999 a very unexpectedly busy time for the Stereophonics. Never a favorite to become a hugely successful Brit-pop band, their noisy, raw hard rock came into favor after the more produced and calculated sound of Brit-pop had become passe. Unfortunately, however, this disc isn't quite as consistent as the debut. Part of the reason why Word Gets Around was so appealing is that there was a sense of urgency that, on this release, seems to have disappeared. There are more ballads than before, and some of the rockers don't burn with the intensity that the...y did on the last album. This doesn't make Performance and Cocktails a bad album, though; fans will be very pleased that the Stereophonics have released another slab of indie-flavored hard rock. Some highlights include "T Shirt Suntan," the acoustic "She Takes Her Clothes Off," and the poppy "Pick a Part That's New." (Japanese versions of this album include three live tracks, but the quality is mediocre and the performances are unspectacular, making this version of the release for hardcore fans only.) - Jason Damas, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Stereophonics

A bright new noise in U.K. alternative rock in the '90s, the Stereophonics comprise Kelly Jones (vocals/guitar), Richard Jones (bass, and Stuart Cable (drums). They were formed in Cwmaman, South Wales, originally as the teenage cover band Tragic Love Company. Early reviews cited the Manic Street Preachers as their most obvious influence, and their initial batch of singl... Read more