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| The Trick To Life | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 37 reviews)
Sales Rank: 41
Category: Music
Artist: The Hoosiers
Publisher: RCA
Studio: RCA
Manufacturer: RCA
Label: RCA
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
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business 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 32 more reviews...
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.
 Catchy. April 27, 2008
This is an instantly memorable album, with catchy tunes and that brilliant falsetto by the lead singer means they stand out from the crowd, i'm not being drawn on the originality that does not concern me only the music.
Brilliant. April 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This has to be the best album I have listened to in a long while. Some of the songs are fun and unusual while others have a deeper meaning.
I love The Hoosiers and I think that all the songs on this album are really good. I would reccomend this album to anyone who wants to listen to a great band. Which is most people. :)
CHEESE.
Love this album April 16, 2008
Really enjoy this album. Am a very easy listening type person, and this album fits in so well with me!
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