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Firewater is a rock music group founded by Tod A. in 1995.
After Tod's earlier group, Cop Shoot Cop, disolved, he quickly regrouped and formed Firewater to explore the kinds of music Cop Shoot Cop had only hinted at, including klezmer, cabaret, ska, jazz and gypsy forms.
Firewater have released five albums, and have seen some success, especially in Europe and on United States college radio stations.
Their latest album, Songs We Should Have Written, is a collection of cover songs. It includes songs written by Robyn Hitchcock, The Rolling Stones ("Paint It Black" reinterpreted as a crawlingly slow raga which "shove(s) a few downers down the song's throat to counter the original version's adrenaline-fueled fire" [1] (http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/f/firewater-songsweshould.shtml)), and a "dark and sweet" take of Sonny and Cher's "The Beat Goes On", described as "10 times more ominous and 20 times more pleasurable" than the original. [2] (http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1294)
Discography
- 1996 Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire
- 1998 The Ponzi Scheme
- 2001 Psychopharmacology
- 2003 The Man on the Burning Tightrope
- 2004 Songs We Should Have Written
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