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| Artist: Stereophonics
Label: Vox Populi Records
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 16291
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 6194
UPC: 602517636194
EAN: 6025176361940
ASIN: B0013F3XMI
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Soldiers Make Good Targets | | • | Pass the Buck | | • | It Means Nothing | | • | Bank Holiday Monday | | • | Daisy Lane | | • | Stone | | • | My Friends | | • | I Could Lose Ya | | • | Bright Read Star | | • | Lady Luck | | • | Crush | | • | Drowning |
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Album Description
Deluxe edition of their 2007 album now comes with a bonus DVD (NTSC/Region 0) that features four tracks recorded live at Wembley in 07; 'Bank Holiday Monday', 'My Friends', 'Pass The Buck' and 'It Means Nothing'. Written by Kelly Jones and featuring the impressive lead single 'It Means Nothing', it combines the band's rockiest and most melodic aspects in one blazing LP that comes out fighting on all fronts. A 12-track tour de force, it looks set to be one of the definitive albums of their incredible ten-year career. Produced by Kelly and Jim Lowe (Foo Fighters, Manic Street Preachers), Pull The Pin is a Rock record of epic proportions. Mixed by Spike Stent, whose previous credits include U2, Depeche Mode and Massive Attack, it's a welcome return for the band and follows a decade of uninterrupted commercial success.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Keeps getting better and better October 12, 2008
Stereophonics are amazing! How this band continues to not be as popular in the US as they are in Great Britain completely baffles me. They have it all. Great song writing, soulful rock-ready vocals, tight musicianship, excellent catchy original melodies, and they rock with the best of them.
Pull The Pin further refines the approach they began on You Gotta Go There To Come Back (by far their most underrated album!!) and continued on Language Sex Violence Other, without compromising the sound they began with on their first three albums. Do yourself a favor... buy this album and their entire back-catalog. You will not be disappointed!!
 3.5 Stars... Decent album but several filler tracks, with so-so bonus DVD October 1, 2008
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I am a long-time fan of Stereophonics, going back to the great first three albums, 1997's "Words Get Around, 1999's "Performance and Cocktails" (still their best album), and 2001's "Just Enough Education to Perform". The band has religiously continued to release a new album every two years, and this album, originally released in Fall, 2007, is the latest installment.
"Pull the Pin" (12 tracks, 46 min.) starts of tremendously, with the 1-2 punch of the hard charging "Soldiers Make Good Targets" and "Pass the Buck", as good as anything the band has done. It is followed by the more mellow "It Means Nothing" (1st UK single), which is Ok. However, after another hard-charging "Bank Holiday Monday" (which was released as a free download before the album was released), the album starts a downward spiral with too many forgettable songs, on e of the exceptions being "My Friends" (2nd UK single, and incidentally the lowest charting single ever for the band). Frankly, the album would have benefited from a slightly shorter running time, cutting out a couple of the weaker filler songs.
The album was re-released in 2008 with a bonus DVD, which brings 4 songs (yes, regretfully just 4) from the album, recorded at London's Wembley Stadium (indeed the band is that popular in the UK). The DVD is enjoyable, with "Bank Holiday Monday" and "Pass the Buck" in particular showcasing the band, and singer-songwriter Kelly Jones, at it's best, but why not give us a whole bunch more than just 4 songs? In all, "Pull the Pin" is not a bad album, and certainly miles better than their two previous studio albums, but it's not at the same level than the "Performance" and "JEEP" albums.
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