tBS: Piece of Work review

[John A. Swartz]

I've been away from the list for almost a week, so I've missed a lot of
the discussion on PoW, but I thought I'd chip in a few thoughts.

So far, I've only had time to sit down and listen to this album once.
My initial thoughts are that I'm going to need some more time with this
one before it takes hold.

The musicianship and songwriting are top-notch on this one.  But, I'm
left scratching my head a bit on this one because just when I thought I
knew what the Brain Surgeons sounded like, they throw me the curveball
that is this CD.  I disagree with Torgo's comment that it sounds a lot
like "Box of Hammers" - at first listen, to my ears, it doesn't sound
like it at all - or nearly anything else tBS have released to date.  I
find myself having to throw out all preconceived notions of this group
and start from scratch with a fresh set of ears.

I do agree with Torgo that it doesn't have one of those really BLISERING
songs on it - a few good rockers for sure, but maybe I just keep hoping
for another version of "Trepanation" (which is still my favorite tBS
album, followed closely by "Box of Hammers").

So, I'm off to catch up on a mountain of work that piled up while I was
out of the office, and trying to rediscover this band called The Brain
Surgeons -- I hear that they are quite good...

John


PS to Torgo:  Great review - hope it's on your website so that I can
link it up to my tBS website (which now has the PoW artwork on it --
http://members.aol.com/tbspostop)