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Mike Reis : Slow Down Quick
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Loud and powerful with pop sensibilities, a string of wild, classic-sounding rock songs and some occasional quieter, sweeter sounds.
Genre: Rock: Classic Rock
Release Date: 2003
Slow Down Quick
Mike Reis
Record Label: Mike Reis
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.00
Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Free to Get Hi 3:22 $0.99
Fly to Europe 2:14 $0.99
Underground 2:23 $0.99
All's O.k. With M.e.j. 3:29 $0.99
Voodoo Doll 2:58 $0.99
Did You Offer Yourself 3:40 $0.99
Tick Tock 2:12 $0.99
How Far Is Gone 3:08 $0.99
Self Worth 3:40 $0.99
Thank You Frank 3:10 $0.99
Afraid 3:15 $0.99
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Album Notes

"What we have here, in the person of Mike Reis, is a guy who skipped right past all the great Beatles albums and dug deep into John Lennon's solo output for inspiration, a guy who seems to have placed more faith in Walls and Bridges than Abbey Road. Right on. Red-eyed and raw throughout much of Slow Down Quick, Reis rubs many of the same already throbbing nerves as the bespectacled one. Reis might not always sound as tortured as his idol did during those post-Beatle years but on tracks such as "Fly to Europe," "All's O.K. with M.E.J." and "Did You Offer Yourself" and especially "Voodoo Doll" he very craftily captures the coming apart spirit of albums such as Mind Games and Plastic Ono Band. (In the latter, Reis even gets in a sonic nod or two to George Harrison.)

Along the way we can hear traces of ELO and vintage Queen in Reis's songwriting ("Underground" and "Afraid," a Big Star-ish quasi-ballad) but we also discover (sooner rather than later) that he's developed a number of his own unique musical maneuvers.

Slow Down Quick serves as a great introduction to Mike Reis, a more-than-capable songwriter whose name should be on more lips in coming years."

By Jedd Beaudoin
F5 Magazine

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REVIEWS

Loved the CD
author: Lee Hoffman
I don\'t know enough about the Beatles to comment on the previous review, but I know enough about what I like, and I LOVED this CD. Reis has a lot of ideas floating in his head, and they all come pouring out on this CD. Give it three listens, and I guarantee you\'ll be nodding your head in time with the music, as well as thinking about the themes the musician is writing about. Very solid.
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