THE SIGHTS
Are You Green (Fall Of Rome)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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Okay, try to keep up with this because I'm only gonna say it once. Guitarist/vocalist Eddie Baranek and bassist Mark Leahey start playing together when they're 13 and just keep workin' at it. Near the end of high school they form The Sights with some other drummer who is not Eugene Strobe, the guy who beats the living shit out of his drums on this CD. Not sure when the first drummer fell off the gravy train, but no matter. If he hadn't fallen Eugene woulda knocked him off the thing. So they record Are You Green in 1999. It's impossible to peg. One song sounds like it could come from the pubs of London, circa 1977, and the next one sounds like it's reverberating up through the grating above the Cavern Club, circa 1962. It's all about energy, though, and the energy most definitely translates well through the CD to your ears. Nothing lost in the void between the studio and you. Put that sucker out and let the accolades begin, right?! ... right? Yeah, uh huh, but only for a flash of a minute because the label folds and no more copies are pressed. It's been sitting in a can for two years now and finally Fall Of Rome records comes to the rescue. Thanks!! Available at last, Are You Green just needs to be heard now. In a perfect world, right? Eddie and Mark have been playing together so long it's like a successful marriage. If Eugene can hang in for a long haul as well, there's no telling how good this could get. Scary.

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