Music To Grind Hips With Yer Favourite Squeeze To. (Green Dollar Colour - Green Dollar Colour)

Member Name: Farting Weasel

Product:	Green Dollar Colour - Green Dollar Colour
Date:	17/02/06 (292 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A good start.

Disadvantages: Not a classic debut.

Music To Grind Hips With Yer favourite Squeeze To.

Green Dollar Colour

Released 2005 on Bad Reputation.
BAD 070205
£9.99 from play.com

This is Green Dollar Colours’ debut album. It’s had heaps of praise lavished upon it. Why? Because it’s supposed to be good. And is it? Damn right it is, and then some.

Green Dollar Colour are effectively a duo with a drummer (Gordon Rythmeister) bolted on. Anthony De Lemos handles the guitars and bass. I’ve never heard of him before, but his playing is not dissimilar to a beefed up Steve Sallas. And he’s good. Not a shredding widdle merchant, but a damn fine riff man.

But the bands trump card has to be Lex Koritini. The vocalist and guitar player. Forget the guitar, it’s that voice. As an Australian, there really is only one comparison to be made. Jimmy Barnes. If you didn’t know otherwise, this could have been an album Barnes would have made after Freight Train Heart. Koritini and Barnes’ pipes make almost the same noise as to make telling them apart difficult. Even the phrasing is not that different. But, that is just a good thing, believe me. Good old fashioned Ausie blue-collar belters.

So what of the music. Hmm. The bands’ stuff has been compared to the likes of Aerosmith, AC/DC, Black Crowes, and Jet, the comparisons are not really accurate. Sure its rock in the more ‘classic’ mould but that’s about it. I would say its more a mix of Sass Jordan (around the time of her Rats album), Salas and Barnes. Grooving, bluesy, funkily riff loaded. This album is one to swing yer hips to, or better still, swing more intimate parts to with your favourite partner. It’s certainly got the rhythms. There are no out and out head long rock charges here, some are fastish, most mid paced. Which is no bad thing. Incessant AC/DC style gallops donot a good record make.

Dirty Letters kicks proceedings off in style, and pretty much sets the scene for the next 39 minutes and 16 seconds (yet another half filled cd. Why?). Other standouts? Mess With Love is a corker. Foot To The Floor has a real funky groove to it that wouldn’t be out of place on an Aerosmith cd. Let it go zips along and I Wanna Know is just massive. In fact, the only real duff track is the last one, You fed Me Lies, and even then it’s not that bad at all.

I like this a lot. It’s got that boozy swagger to it that is well suited to the all too rare drinking holes where you can just stand at the bar and tap your foot to the band on stage. The songs are all consistently good.

And there lies the problem. There are no absolute killer, knockout numbers on Green Dollar Colour. There are no tracks I could pick out and play at a rock disco to get people shuffling about on the dance floor. There is plenty to tap your foot to. But nothing to get you bothering the tennis racket.

But, with a voice the calibre of that owned by Lex Koritini, this album gets lifted out of the pub rock mire.

Good. But not a gem. However, time, and sales figures will tell. I look forward to the next one.

Recommended.

Summary: A good knicker stripper.