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Some Loud Thunder
(2007, Indie rock, by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Label: Clap Your Hands Say)
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Not age appropriate for kids under 13, age appropriate for kids over 14; suggested age 14. -
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Avant-garde music makes for okay CD.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 14 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Some Loud Thunder
Parents need to know that the songs on this album are unusual and dense in this overdubbed production. The band never presents us with violently explicit or crude lyrics, but it makes for a strange, abstract-beyond-belief trip in sound nonetheless. There are references to Satan, who requests partygoers to dance (in "Satan Said Dance"), the randomly placed line "my fair-lady pill pop" (from "Yankee Go Home"), slightly morbid allusions to politics and death in "Mama, Won't You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning?" ("And I'm touched by the same sad feeling of dread/Just to know that you can't wait to see me dead…I'm at the end/This here my rope"), and the word "cock" appears in "Arm and Hammer."
Read our full review by Karen Fu
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the art of writing lyrics and how they don't necessarily have to make sense to everyone, but can be written in the vein of stream-of-consciousness or uncanny poetics. Families can also compare Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to less complex, more tangible indie-rock bands. What do you hear probing the background of this album? Cowbells, gawky guitar, static synthesizer are all magical elements of the musical potency. What images do they evoke in your music-listening experience?
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wow
pretty darn strange band
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Not nearly as good as their first CD
CYHSY's first CD was much better compared to this follow-up, which feels a bit more disjointed and less congealed together. The first Cd was still weird in the way the songs went and the fact that the singer sounded like he was taking something when he sang. But it was still addictive music. As is this CD, just not in a nearly as well-polished way. However, they also conitinue to be almost completely clean, with just mild language in only one track. Personally, if you have not listened to their first CD, I would go for that one over Some Loud Thunder.
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