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"You don't like to work. You don't like to sweat. You puff all day on funny cigarettes. In your room all alone. You watch TV and unplug the phone. People sort of think that you're no damn good. You got no friends in the neighborhood. You don't go out. Your eyes turn red From sitting to close to the TV set." from "Better Get Started" by VIDIOTS |
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| SHUT DOWN. WAKE UP. TUNE IN!!!
Vidiot (n.) definition: a sub-human, barely alive zombie who zones out in front of the tube for weeks on end, vegges out and manifests a fierce "leave me alone" attitude; differentiated from a Couch Potato who zones out in front of the tube but is actually aware of what he's watching.
Geoff Westen was the original Vidiot. "After the last band I was in broke up for some stupid reason, I hibernated, propped myself up in front of the monitor and sort of dropped out. The song 'Better Get Started' was a self-motivating message." Because of that song, Geoff SHUT DOWN the TV, WOKE UP, and began to TUNE IN!! to his life again. It worked like a charm.
Reconnected to the world and re-energized, Geoff waded into his head and returned with the Power Punk tunes-de-force that comprise VIDIOTSTune In!! The songs take advantage of Westen's signature Wall of Pop style of production in a top-notch collection of songs you won't be able to shake out of your head.
VIDIOTSTune In!! is the follow-up to The PigsOINK! Geoff's breakthrough Power Pop album that made the Hybrid Magazine list as one their "2006 Up and Coming Favorites," and was named one of the Top 25 Indie CDs of 2007 by Indie-Music.com. The reviewers and fans alike, have responded to Westen's neo-retro sound, and cite influences from the '80s to the present.
Westen delivers screaming guitars and a driving track that rocks his opening anthem for Vidiots everywhere, "Better Get Started." He kicks it up a notch on the thumping tracks "Angry Young Man" and "Don't Stop The Kiss." And check out those funky-chunky wah wah guitars in "Action Man." And no one does a ballad better or tells a more tender love story than the softer side of Westen on "She's So Young" and "Searching For Love."
The album is very danceable all the way through, especially on the slightly techno versions of "Together" and "Some Of You Girls," with their loops and intense synth solos. There are plenty of vintage Westenisms throughout, as he continues to exploit his Wall Of Pop Sound.
Check out the LYRICS.
Read the VIDIOTS reviews.
Plug in your headphones and make sure you TUNE IN to TUNE IN!!
VIDIOTSTune In!!, is Geoff Westen's fourth album on his Disturbing Music label. Check out the Power Pop CD The PigsOINK!, and the Digital Activity opuses Birth and Xmas Vol. 1.
Want to know more? Go to Geoff Westen.
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![]() LISTEN TO VIDIOTS
Click on the player below to get the music going. Then sit back and check out samples from TUNE IN!! before you pick up a copy.
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BUY VIDIOTS
Like It? Wanna BUY it? Visit the Disturbing Music Catalog where you can buy direct from us using PayPal.
Interested in purchasing individual tracks? Links to the singles are on the Disturbing Music Catalog page.
For more info on the Vidiots Project, go to VIDIOTS. |
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Downloads for radio programmers available at AirplayDirect. |
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![]() RINGTONES & WALLPAPER
Download a FREE hard to find Vidiots Ringtone:
Download this FREE Vidiots CD Cover for your Wallpaper:
Check out more Ringtones & Wallpaper from Geoff Westen.
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| WHO DID WHAT? | |
| Producer: | Geoff Westen |
| Engineer: | Jon Gass |
| Recorded at: | Disturbing Studios | Mixed at: | Disturbing Studios |
| Mastered by: | The Finalizer |
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| Guitars: | Lewis Goldsmith Davey Johnstone Jefferson Kewley GW |
| Keyboards: | GW |
| Drum Programming: | Dennis Conway |
| Horns: | Richard Elliot Heart Attack Horns |
| Percussion: | Dennis Conway |
| BG Vocals: | Everyone who stopped by |
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| Concept and Design: | Oz Studios |
| Photography: | Disturbing Media |
| Artist Representation: | Manic Strategies |
| Public Relations: | PRP/818-766-0443 |
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![]() THE VIDIOTS PACKAGE Oz Studios created a wonderful concept for this CD package, depicting a Vidiot's two most important tools - the screen and the remote (how very simple are a Vidiot's needs!) You see, a true Vidiot wants to see the world as he'd like it to be - not how it really is. Escaping from reality is a Vidiots dream. Escaping into reality is a curse. So the concept depicts living INSIDE a TV World as a wonderful place to be...or is it? Why are The Heads screaming?? Isn't that where they want to be? Maybe it's not so wonderful in there after all? |
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THE RUNNING ORDER ON TUNE IN!!
01. Better Get Started
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