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Reunions are a common occurrence in rock music. 1960s garage rock band The Limits never achieved any notability outside their hometown, but a new group bearing that name came out in \u201879. With a sound that drew from garage rock, pub rock, new wave and hard rock, the new band wouldn\u2019t really have much musical connection at all with its \u201860s forebears. But taken on its own, the music on Songs About Girls<\/i> is solid stuff.<\/p>\n
If you heard and\/or purchased any of Rhino\u2019s DIY collections, the music on Songs About Girls<\/i> will sound warmly familiar. Shades of both the American and British variants of that sorta-power pop crop up throughout this set. Tight, tough and no-nonsense playing is wedded to solid songs that \u2013 though hardly anyone would hear them at the time \u2013 effectively capture the sound and spirit of the era.<\/p>\n
The connection between old and new Limits is guitarist Rick Levy, who continues to lead The Limits to this day. (In a tidy bit of serendipity, he also plays with the Box Tops; that group\u2019s original singer, Alex Chilton, was a big fan of the \u201860s Limits.) The vocal harmonies that were a defining characteristic of the \u201860s lineup are on display here as well on songs like \u201cLove, Love, Love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the tunes bear characteristic of that early\u2019 80s sound in a way that doesn\u2019t wear well \u2013 stuttering guitar riffage, stiff and boxy drum sounds, sterile keyboard textures \u2013 but at their best, the \u201880s lineup The Limits sounds like a cross between The Producers and The Rubinoos. You could \u2013 and likely usually do \u2013 do a lot worse. \u201cDon\u2019t Steal My Heart\u201d sounds like the ghost of Buddy Holly filtered through the sensibility of The Knack, with the nasty edge smoothed over.<\/p>\n
And The Limits\u2019 sense of humor shines through here and there as well. A definite highlight of Songs About Girls<\/em> is the nervy \u201880s rethink of Merseybeat titled \u201cI\u2019m Not Telling You Now.\u201d Listen and you\u2019ll get a feel for how Freddie Garrity\u2019s band might have sounded fifteen years after their heyday.<\/p>\n The marginal, no-budget sound quality may threaten to put off some potential listeners. Don\u2019t be one of them. Just tell yourself you forgot to degauss the heads on your cassette deck, and enjoy Songs About Girls<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reunions are a common occurrence in rock music. 1960s garage rock band The Limits never achieved any notability outside their hometown, but a new group bearing that name came out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,49,50,62,65],"tags":[4245],"class_list":["post-19092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compilation","category-new-release","category-new-wave","category-rawk","category-review","tag-the-limits","cat-19-id","cat-49-id","cat-50-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31464,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092\/revisions\/31464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}