Pixies, Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, R.E.M., The Decemberists, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth, Belle and Sebastian, Wilco, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Ramones, Grand Funk Railroad, Kool Moe Dee, Igor Stravinski. The last three mostly in spirit.
Gainesville, FL’s Building Rockets began as a solo project in 2003 by songwriter Sam Heath, having recently dissolved his power-pop trio Ersatz Glow. After gazing resolutely into his navel and coming up with the germs of most of the songs that eventually became their debut album, The Union Forever, Sam felt a desire, a calling if you will, to bring these pop gems to the stage and sought out members to flesh out the group.
In December 2006, Sam, drummer Scott Littler, and original bassist Russell Johnson encamped in a Gainesville chapel with two carloads of recording equipment and produced their second album, Player Piano, which draws not only on their already evident power-pop leanings (“It’s a Lie,” “Girl, You’ll Be a Lawyer Soon”) but includes forays into country gospel (“A Song For Thomas, Who Doubted”), and Irish folk (“An American Wake”).
Russell left the band in 2007 and after a year without playing a note, the band ultimately drafted a successor in Paco, a master blues guitarist and covert pop-music architect with a knack for combining McCartneyesque basslines with blast furnace intensity. With its new lineup in place, Building Rockets is creating hook-filled, powerful songs that borrow ideas from all over the map, defying allegiance to a particular sound. As frontman Sam Heath said, “Our roots are in the songs we grew up with, but our eyes are on the stars.”
The Union Forever
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01 Like a Storybook Ending
02 The Maginot Line
03 Bob Dylan
04 Someday, Sarah
05 My Exploding Head
06 NYC
07 Song from a Bowery Opera House
08 Your Name in Cursive
09 American Gothic
10 Magnetic North
Player Piano
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01 The Plan
02 Girl, You'll Be a Lawyer Soon
03 The Maginot Line
04 It's a Lie
05 An American Wake
06 A Song for Thomas, Who Doubted
07 When I Took Your Hand
08 Being an Account of the Amazing, Improbable
Journey of a Mr. Phineas T. Snodgrass, Balloonist
Extraordinaire
09 How We Lost California
10 The Record Store Clerk Has Broken Your Heart
11 Baptism Song
12 Bob Dylan
13 A Song for Abraham
14 Let's Get You to Bed
omg omg omg you ugys are cming back that great, you guys are like the beatles of rock no ones ever heard..........ok mor eliek a beatles cover band of rock music people have never heard of of
You guys're sorta fantastic, and I only sound ambivalent so as to buck possible accusations of sycophancy.
I'm glad to see that you've got a show comin' up; I hope it's a success, and if I make it out, I hope it's also a FREE success. Aw, hell, you guys're worth the cash--financial squeeze be damned, then!
The Righteous Kind's MLK tribute song. Hear it at our Myspace page.
Show me the day by Charles Ray
The wind has blown this way before When they fought to end that Asian war We thought that peace was here to stay Show me the day I said - show me the day
It seemed the moment had arrived When they marched way back in ‘65 You think Jim Crow has gone away? Show me the day I said - show me the day
Show me a new day dawning End of this long black night Show me we all are brothers I had a dream last night!
The world is such an ugly scene ‘Cause hate is deep inside our genes You say that love will find away Show me the day I said - show me the day
Show me a new day dawning End of this long black night Show me we all are brothers I had a dream last night!
The world is such an ugly scene ‘Cause hate is deep inside our genes But nurture is the other way Teach love today Preach love today Show me the way Teach Charles Ray
I told you I have proof that Charles Ray, of the band The Righteous Kind (www.myspace.com/TheRighteousKind), is a commie. Well here it is! Shown below is a photo of a two-year old Charles Ray (right) and his brother Thomas taken on May Day 1955. Ray’s family was died hard commies. So much so that they had little Tommy hold a photo of Uncle Joe Stalin in the photo. Is this your smoking gun, or what?
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Hey! Thanks so much for adding us! Be sure to order your copy of our debut album produced by Sam Rivers of LIMP BIZKIT and Ryan Hodges of Born Recording Studio! Take care and please keep in touch!
Much love and respect, Christopher The Embraced - vocals
P.S. here is the usual blinky flashy junk us bands love to send...
I f your ear is to the ground, you'll hear us. Warm tingly earlobe love. Thanks for making this sound experiment a HAPPY ONE. We love You!!!!!!!! from planet Earth....PEACE Jason Stander-(drums/percussion) WORLDWIDE ZOO/GRUVPHUNKSHUN
