Customer Reviews
Fantastic Album ********** - By: Supernatural Chick, 15 Jul 2008 
Quite simply one of the best albums ever. Each track is distinctive, keeps you rocking, Kelly's voice is amazsing. Great lyrcis, great music, buy it!
Qulity album from a quality band - By: Raven, 01 Jul 2007 The first two Stereophonics albums arein my opionion two of the greatest rock albums of the last ten years. Featuring the fantastic Local boyin the photograph, 1000 trees, more lifein a tramps vest & traffic this is a must havein any true rock fans collection - buy today!
One fantastic album! - By: Pinky, 26 Feb 2007 Stereophonics are my all-time favourite band, & this album is possibly the best I've ever heard. Every song is pure genius, the lyrics are very thought-provoking & entertaining, & it's impossible to get bored of even if you play it on repeat (I'm speaking from experience) Buy this album! :o)
The original and the best - By: Mr. D. S. Evison, 10 Feb 2007 Without doubt the best 'phonics album. This is one of my top 5 albums of all time. It is difficult to start talking about individual songs as they are all so good but Same Size Feet is a favourite (not being a single). However, Local Boy... is a classic, Traffic is beautiful, A Thousand Trees is a great sing-along & Not Up To Me & Too Many Sandwiches provide fantastically vivid images of growing upin small town Wales.
Back to Front - By: , 25 Aug 2005 To really appreciate the Stereophonics, you need to listen to their later albums, fallin love with them & then come back to their roots. It's not that the later albums are bad, just that this album is very, very good, & the band change where they're coming from over time.
If you listen to this first, you'll expect them to always be highly-energetic & insightful rock. But they change, Kelly Jones maturing & writing more about immediate personal experiences (such as the last, very sad tracks of "You Gotta Go There To Come Back", full of regrets). Here, he's writing from a younger perspective, butin tracks like "Billy Daveys Daughter", you can see the sheer poetic & empathic talent of the man.
If you *DO* come to this album from the later ones, stick with it: it will grow on you. If you go forward, don't expect them to write the same material; they don't. That's why the Stereophonics are one of the greatest bands of our time. Take them for what they are: very, very good.
