THE SIGHTS
''ARE YOU GREEN?''
1999
40:06
1/All Night Long Stay
The Sights/4:12
2/Want Is You
The Sights/2:57
3/Sorry
Andy Cox / Grace Jones / Everett Morton / Ranking Roger / Saxa / The Sights / David Steel / Dave Wakeling / David Wright/3:51
4/I Can't Stand You
Ronnie Parasite / The Sights/2:18
5/F#
Nuclear Assault / The Sights/1:31
6/Not One to Beg
The Sights/3:09
7/She's Not the One
The Sights/3:17
8/Finish Whatcha Started
The Sights/3:16
9/Talk to You
The Sights/3:35
10/That Ain't Right Little Girl
The Sights/2:38
11/The Hott Seat
The Sights/2:13
12/Hey Girl
Ronnie Lane / Steve Marriott/1:55
13/Are You Green?
The Sights/5:14
Deb Agnolli /Vocals
Eddie Baranek /Guitar, Organ, Piano, Vocals
Jim Diamond /Organ, Producer, Vocals (Background)
Dave Knepp /Drums
Mark Leahey /Bass, Organ, Vibraphone, Vocals
Aran Ruth /Vocals (Background)
Dave Shettler /Organ, Piano, Tambourine, Vocals (Background)
Eugene Strobe /Drums, Tambourine, Vibraphone, Vocals
Aaron Warshaw /Vocals (Background)
REVIEW
by Bryan Thomas
Detroit's Sights play a high-spirited brand of aggressive '60s-pop, garage rock, and Brit-inspired psych, drawing on a transmogrified gene-splice of British freakbeat, new wave/punk, and rock influences, including the early Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Who, the Creation, the Yardbirds, the Jam, and the Buzzcocks. Guitarist Eddie Baranek -- whose rousing lead vocal talent seems unusually sharp for his age -- and bassist Mark Leahey formed the Sights at the beginning of their senior year of high school, but the real surprise here is relative newcomer Eugene Strobe, who approaches his drum kit like a man possessed by the vodka-drenched spirit of the Who's Keith Moon. With songs like "All Night Long Stay," "She's Not the One," and "That Ain't Right Little Girl," the Sights have become one of the greater late-90's bands of the Detroit area -- other include the Go, Outrageous Cherry, the Witches, and the White Stripes -- who seem to be putting the Motor City back on the musical map. Incidentally, "Sorry" features a recording of two members of the band, armed with baseball bats, who are smashing a computer terminal to pieces after it was thrown out of an upstairs window. Fall of Rome Records in Los Angeles re-issued the album in 2001.
BIOGRAPHY
by Bryan Thomas
The Sights' lead guitarist/vocalist Eddie Baranek and bassist Mark Leahey (who both share songwriting and vocal duties) have been playing music together since the age of 13, forming this band at the beginning of their senior year of high school. They played their first shows together in early 1998. Baranek and Leahey were still under the age of 18 at the time, and were not old enough to remember firsthand the bands that seem to have had the biggest influence on them, including edgy late-'70s punk/new wave acts like the Buzzcocks and early Jam, and certainly did not remember those bands' influences: British mods like the early Who or the Creation. In late 1999, drummer Eugene Strobe came on board, replacing a series of drummers, adding a raucously wild Keith Moon-like quality to their live performances. The youthful trio recorded songs for a debut album, Are You Green?, at Jim Diamond's Ghetto Recorders that same year. The album was issued in 2000 by Spectator Records, but the small Detroit-based indie folded not too long afterwards. Fall of Rome Records in Los Angeles reissued Are You Green? in 2001, as well as The Sights' 2002 follow-up, Got What We Want. Three years later, the band released a self-titled album on New Line/Scratchie. The band returned in 2010 with the release of Most of What Follows Is True.
''ARE YOU GREEN?''
1999
40:06
1/All Night Long Stay
The Sights/4:12
2/Want Is You
The Sights/2:57
3/Sorry
Andy Cox / Grace Jones / Everett Morton / Ranking Roger / Saxa / The Sights / David Steel / Dave Wakeling / David Wright/3:51
4/I Can't Stand You
Ronnie Parasite / The Sights/2:18
5/F#
Nuclear Assault / The Sights/1:31
6/Not One to Beg
The Sights/3:09
7/She's Not the One
The Sights/3:17
8/Finish Whatcha Started
The Sights/3:16
9/Talk to You
The Sights/3:35
10/That Ain't Right Little Girl
The Sights/2:38
11/The Hott Seat
The Sights/2:13
12/Hey Girl
Ronnie Lane / Steve Marriott/1:55
13/Are You Green?
The Sights/5:14
Deb Agnolli /Vocals
Eddie Baranek /Guitar, Organ, Piano, Vocals
Jim Diamond /Organ, Producer, Vocals (Background)
Dave Knepp /Drums
Mark Leahey /Bass, Organ, Vibraphone, Vocals
Aran Ruth /Vocals (Background)
Dave Shettler /Organ, Piano, Tambourine, Vocals (Background)
Eugene Strobe /Drums, Tambourine, Vibraphone, Vocals
Aaron Warshaw /Vocals (Background)
REVIEW
by Bryan Thomas
Detroit's Sights play a high-spirited brand of aggressive '60s-pop, garage rock, and Brit-inspired psych, drawing on a transmogrified gene-splice of British freakbeat, new wave/punk, and rock influences, including the early Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Who, the Creation, the Yardbirds, the Jam, and the Buzzcocks. Guitarist Eddie Baranek -- whose rousing lead vocal talent seems unusually sharp for his age -- and bassist Mark Leahey formed the Sights at the beginning of their senior year of high school, but the real surprise here is relative newcomer Eugene Strobe, who approaches his drum kit like a man possessed by the vodka-drenched spirit of the Who's Keith Moon. With songs like "All Night Long Stay," "She's Not the One," and "That Ain't Right Little Girl," the Sights have become one of the greater late-90's bands of the Detroit area -- other include the Go, Outrageous Cherry, the Witches, and the White Stripes -- who seem to be putting the Motor City back on the musical map. Incidentally, "Sorry" features a recording of two members of the band, armed with baseball bats, who are smashing a computer terminal to pieces after it was thrown out of an upstairs window. Fall of Rome Records in Los Angeles re-issued the album in 2001.
BIOGRAPHY
by Bryan Thomas
The Sights' lead guitarist/vocalist Eddie Baranek and bassist Mark Leahey (who both share songwriting and vocal duties) have been playing music together since the age of 13, forming this band at the beginning of their senior year of high school. They played their first shows together in early 1998. Baranek and Leahey were still under the age of 18 at the time, and were not old enough to remember firsthand the bands that seem to have had the biggest influence on them, including edgy late-'70s punk/new wave acts like the Buzzcocks and early Jam, and certainly did not remember those bands' influences: British mods like the early Who or the Creation. In late 1999, drummer Eugene Strobe came on board, replacing a series of drummers, adding a raucously wild Keith Moon-like quality to their live performances. The youthful trio recorded songs for a debut album, Are You Green?, at Jim Diamond's Ghetto Recorders that same year. The album was issued in 2000 by Spectator Records, but the small Detroit-based indie folded not too long afterwards. Fall of Rome Records in Los Angeles reissued Are You Green? in 2001, as well as The Sights' 2002 follow-up, Got What We Want. Three years later, the band released a self-titled album on New Line/Scratchie. The band returned in 2010 with the release of Most of What Follows Is True.
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