''Fools Want Noise'' is an album by
Oh My God
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. It was released in 2007 by Split Red Records.
The band employed guitar instrumentation on the album, the first time in its recording career that it had done so.
Critical reception
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Chicago Reader
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'' wrote that the band "go over the top of over-the-top: with heavy guitar added to their already comically heavy sound, the stadium-rock bravado of the arrangements would now make Freddie Mercury blush ... the key, though, is their underlying sincerity."
''Illinois Entertainer'' wrote that "from power pop bliss ('Two-Hand Touch') to punk aggression (title track) and bombastic hard rock ('Facewash') to psychedelic flirting ('Ancient Sanskrit Proverb (The Splendor Of Beauty)'),
h My Godnever stick around long enough to set stakes in any one style."
Track listing
# "Houston (Now You've Got A Problem)" - 3:42
# "Facewash" - 2:16
# "Fly A Kite" - 2:34
# "(Fools Want Introductions)" - 0:33
# "Fools Want Noise" - 2:33
# "(The Fools)" - 0:20
# "Better Than That" - 3:13
# "But That's Just Me" - 3:42
# "Put It In A Song" - 3:46
# "(Untitled)" - 0:31
# "Get Out To Sea" - 3:42
# "Two-Hand Touch" - 3:26
# "(Untitled)" - 0:23
# "Everything is Good" - 3:43
# "(Untitled)" - 0:27
# "Ancient Sanskrit Proverb" - 3:32
References
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2007 albums
Oh My God (band) albums