Pros: Fran Healy's vocals, great tracks, interesting lyrics. Cons: Somewhat short, a shift from earlier works.
Who exactly is Travis? Well, the band formed in 1990 in Glasgow, Scotland. Since their inception, Travis has released four albums beginning with the independently released All I Wanna Do Is Rock (1996) and rapping up most ...
Pros:Fran Healey's voice is perfectly suited for this music, sounds like an amalgam of all the greatest British rock of the last 50 years Cons: All the songs are slow... some may not enjoy that fact.
At first listen, The Man Who (and the band Travis who've made it) sound like an amalgam of British rock's elite - as if they were rolled into one. The winsome, sometimes throwaway lyrics resembling those of Noel Gallagher (of...
Pros: great melodies, catchy songs, good lyrics Cons: none
My friends have been trying to convert me into a Travis fan for the past three years. While living in England in 1997 I briefly dated a girl who had met the band several times and couldn’t stop raving about them. This summer I spent some time with an...
Pros: Easy going rock/pop songs. 5 great songs. Cons: Slight warbling on some songs. Lyrics at times seem childish or just crazy.
Travis seemed to arrive from nowhere with the release of their second album, 'The Man Who'. But what a way to make an impact. Having now sold over 2 million copies in the UK alone, with several more million worldwide, Travis are undoubtedly one of the...
Pros: Melodiuous, harmonious, melancholic, beautiful. Really great stuff. Cons: Tracks six and seven maybe a little too twee.
An exaggeration it is not to say that the four hit singles, and one or two others, from Travis' second album The Man Who made up the soundtrack to the British summer of 1999. The sounds of the fesh-faced, young Scottish whippersnappers were to be heard...
Pros: Six million can't be wrong - good solid songwriting and tasty take on downtempo acoustic lullabies Cons: It's a bit too downtempo in some parts for most American audiences
(Vanna, please make that four and a half stars, thank you.)
Travis seems to be the new darling band of the British Isles, with their second album, "The Man Who," garnering the "Album of the Year" nods from magazines...
Pros: versatile style, great melodic, romantic and well composed songs Cons: sometimes a tiny, tiny bit boring
I learned about Travis from a great German alternative Music-TV-Station (VIVA 2) and was completely infatuated right away! I just had to buy their album, after realizing the fact that Travis don't only have one good song to offer, but also a few more....
Pros: "Why Does it Always Rain on Me?" Cons: Most of it sounds like second-rate Jeff Buckley
...he'd probably sound like Travis. Travis is a remarkably bland band from Glasgow. In spite of all their repetitious nonsense and superficially insightful lyrics, they've managed to become quite popular in the UK, where "The Man Who" was the...
If it’s true that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Radiohead and Oasis ought to feel awfully flattered indeed by the Glasgow-based band Travis. Produced by Radiohead’s designated knob-twiddler Nigel Godrich, The Man Who finds the four...
Pros: Classic album : Just great to listen to. Cons: Album just doesn't last long enough
Travis - The Man Who…
Travis –The Band Who Delivers.
This is the album that brought Travis to prominence in the UK, and on listening; it’s easy to see why. The album is full of well-crafted songs with catchy hooks, and strong...
Pros: terrific melancholic song-based Misery Pop Cons: like "Nevermind" before it, it has inspired hordes of awful bands
Yay verily, brothers and sisters: Fran Healy and his cronies have commited grave heresy against the holy church of Rock. The number of crimes that they have commited is large, but I shall try to mention as many as possible:
"The Man Who" is the latest record in a tradition of melancholy music from the UK. It started with the Smiths's "Meat is Murder" and includes albums from bands like The Beautiful South, Radiohead, and the Verve. Like its...
Pros: Good middle ground between most talented Brit bands around, easily digestible, and catchy Cons: Though their variation is purposeful, it might be nice if they developed a more definite sound, as with true pop, they are some duds here and there
As a rather large Radiohead fan, and an Anglophile in general, many good things had passed to my ear about The Man Who, which actually got its name from the book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for Hat" which is a book of stories about...
Pros: A dynamic and inspiring album...positively a must in your collection. Cons: None really...a song or two that cant hold a candle to the high standards of the rest of the album
Perhaps, the best album UK has produced thus far on a large scale in 2000.
I bought this album after hearing the sensational single "Why does it always Rain on Me?" and upon first listen I knew I had found something worth holding on to....
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