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The Trick To Life | 
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| Artist: The Hoosiers
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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New (44) Used (5) Collectible (1) from £4.48
Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 123
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 886971569124
EAN: 0886971569124
ASIN: B000VP5E96
Release Date: October 22, 2007
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Condition: Brand new and factory sealed! All orders ship via Air Mail from the USA and are delivered in 7-10 days!
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| Tracks:
| » | Worried About Ray | | » | Worst Case Scenario | | » | Run Rabbit Run | | » | Goodbye Mr A | | » | Sadness Runs Through Him | | » | Clinging On For Life | | » | Cops And Robbers | | » | Everything Goes Dark | | » | Killer | | » | Trick To Life | | » | Money To Be Made | | » | Feeling You Get When |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If The Feeling's slick high-crime pilfering of 70's AOR is missing anything in particular--and they do run a tight operation--then it's a bit of throttle, a hint of recklessness, if that's not too much of a contradiction in terms. Enter London-based trio The Hoosiers, who pogo like un-caged kids on Saturday morning TV hooked up to McFlurry drips, dancing to Twelve Stops and Home on fast-forward like everything's quite normal. Or at least they do for much of the time--"Clinging on for Life" for instance sidles off into an unusually mellow Nick Drake lay-by. But for the most part The Trick to Life is the work of Electric Light Orchestra and Supertramp half-inched, shaken up and handed to McFly to pop the cork. There is much that feels near-plagiarised. "Goodbye Mr A" has more than a little of ELO's signature "Mr Blue Sky" to it, "Worried About Ray" recalls The Turtles' "Happy Together" and "Cops and Robbers" isn't even remotely coy about stealing wholesale from a tune as iconic as The Cure's unmistakable "The Lovecats". And coming a little closer to home, "Run Rabbit Run" sees singer Irwin Sparkes unfurl a soprano tailor-made for a close impersonation of dreamy indie-poppers The Delays. But if none of that bothers you (or even if it does) The Hoosiers have a super-charged barrel of sugar rushes here that are dangerously immediate and difficult to ignore, sweet tooth or no sweet tooth. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
 The Trick is this is Crap July 2, 2008
Probably the worst album to be released since the cover of the beatles album abbey road by St Thomas school for the deaf.
 Fantastic May 27, 2008
This is a great album, even my 5 year old loves listening to it and asks for it all the time. A must have for any music collection.
FANTASTIC!!!!!! May 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a brilliant album, and ought to win a reward. Nearly every song is a classic, and even my least favourite song has parts to it that i really enjoy.
I still don't understand why people don't like this.
Here are my ratings of the songs:
Worried About Ray 10/10
Worst Case Scenario 8/10
Run Rabbit Run 7/10
Goodbye Mr A 10/10
A Sadness Runs Through Him 10/10 (Joint Best Song)
Clinging On To Life 6/10
Cops & Robbers 9/10
Everything Goes Dark 9/10
Killer 10/10 (Joint Best Song)
The Trick To Life 6/10
Money To Be Made 5/10
... And if you think that 5/10 isn't very good then remember that i'm marking these in high standards anyway, and i'm only comparing them to each other.
All in alll... THIS ALBUM IS FANTASTIC!!!!!
Pretty good but a little too mainstream May 11, 2008
When The Feeling came out they were just different enough from the current mainstream to make an impact; it's almost a shame The Hoosiers weren't signed first. To say the two are similar would be an understatement though it's something neither band is ashamed of. They both state similar artists as influences and both have a more than accidental tang of ELO about them, particularly here with Mr.A
So basically the albums enjoyable to listen to, pretty much all the songs are a good standard and extremely catchy and as a band Hoosiers may be slightly better than the Feeling with one or two songs. Definitely worth a listen.
I assume Mr Lynne has spoken to his lawyers... May 6, 2008
...As a whole album of uncredited Mr Blue Sky covers must irritate him a bit.
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