Apples and Oranges, Fujis and Galas, Part 2
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According to Wikipedia, Seven Mary Three was formed in 1992 by Jason Ross and Jason Pollock, students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The two shared songwriting duties, performing with Ross singing and Pollock playing guitar. Later, drummer Giti Khalsa and bassist Casey Daniel joined the lineup. Currently members of the band are Casey Daniel, Giti Khalsa, Thomas Juliano, and Jason Ross.
In 1995 the band relased its first full-length album American Standard, which went platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) just seven months later, buoyed in large part by the phenomenal success of the single "Cumbersome" (#39 on Billboard's Hot 100, #1 on U.S. Mainstream Rock charts, and #7 on U.S. Modern Rock charts). Although no subsequent single or album has attained to that level of commercial success, Seven Mary Three has continued to make music, releasing Rock Crown (1997), Orange Ave. (1998), The Economy of Sound (2001), Dis/Location (2004), and 2008's Day & Night Driving. Of this last effort, Mike McGuirk writes that "[this] is the sort of record people who are all grown up make and [it] is aimed at folks who are all grown up themselves: no gimmicks, no posing, no nonsense." In his Rhapsody blurb McGuirk also calls Seven Mary Three a "More muscular Counting Crows," citing "hooks as effective as Nickelback's, but [with] a much warmer production style." Seven Mary Three's pedigree is given as Alternative/Punk > Grunge > Post-Grunge, but their latest album sounds positively singer/songwriter-ish; it's very quiet and, if memory serves, almost all acoustic.Memorable Seven Mary Three songs would include (yes) "Cumbersome," "Lucky," "Lame," "Devil Boy," and from the new album the track I've posted "Laughing Out Loud." All the difference in the world really once you get past the 3-word, Christian-sounding band names with the word "three" in them. I think I've got 'em straight now (see Part 1 above).
In 1995 the band relased its first full-length album American Standard, which went platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) just seven months later, buoyed in large part by the phenomenal success of the single "Cumbersome" (#39 on Billboard's Hot 100, #1 on U.S. Mainstream Rock charts, and #7 on U.S. Modern Rock charts). Although no subsequent single or album has attained to that level of commercial success, Seven Mary Three has continued to make music, releasing Rock Crown (1997), Orange Ave. (1998), The Economy of Sound (2001), Dis/Location (2004), and 2008's Day & Night Driving. Of this last effort, Mike McGuirk writes that "[this] is the sort of record people who are all grown up make and [it] is aimed at folks who are all grown up themselves: no gimmicks, no posing, no nonsense." In his Rhapsody blurb McGuirk also calls Seven Mary Three a "More muscular Counting Crows," citing "hooks as effective as Nickelback's, but [with] a much warmer production style." Seven Mary Three's pedigree is given as Alternative/Punk > Grunge > Post-Grunge, but their latest album sounds positively singer/songwriter-ish; it's very quiet and, if memory serves, almost all acoustic.Memorable Seven Mary Three songs would include (yes) "Cumbersome," "Lucky," "Lame," "Devil Boy," and from the new album the track I've posted "Laughing Out Loud." All the difference in the world really once you get past the 3-word, Christian-sounding band names with the word "three" in them. I think I've got 'em straight now (see Part 1 above).
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