MP3 Bikeride - Thirty-Seven Secrets I Only Told America

The album that put Bikeride on the map. Raved about in MOJO, Uncut, Rolling Stone, and everywhere else, 37 Secrets is the quintessential pop album for pop lovers. A perfect fusion of Earth, Wind, and Fire, Jobim, and The Kinks. It's that good.

37 MP3 Songs
POP: 60's Pop, POP: California Pop



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LA TIMES- âMorning Macumba is a collection of gorgeous, fully formed â60âs international vocal pop⦠How such grand, embraceable vocal harmonies have flown so long under the radar is a bit of a mystery.â


AMPLIFIER- âThe pop renaissance of the 90âs owes much of its success to talented, young indie artists like Tony Carbone.â


MOJO- âBest stick with Bikerideâs 37 Secrets I Only Told America, creamy Anglophile indie jazz pop, with Moog, Wurlitzer, and Latino beats.â


CMJ- âSatellite photos from high above California have revealed a strange and wonderful new talent with the unlikely, Scorsese-character-like name of Tony Carbone. As leader of the unwieldy Bikeride collective, Carboneâs assembled the latest in a line of uncategorizable Golden State pop masterpieces.â


OC WEEKLY- âBack to Morning Macumba for a sec: this was the album that moved us from "Theyâre not bad" Bikeride fence-sitters to drooly-faced, bug-eyed, heavy-breathing, pom-pom shaking Bikeride cheerleaders.â


POP MATTERS- âFakinâ Amnesia is one of 2002âs best songs, really.â


COMFUSION- âMorning Macumba is one of the stangest, most uplifting album of the year.â

IN MUSIC WE TRUST- âBikeride covers the pop spectrum, a vast undertaking, and somehow makes each song unique and different, while retaining the Bikeride âsoundâ throughout. Iâll give it an A.â


THE BIG TAKEOVER- âNot everyone can be Brian Wilson or Phil Spector, regardless of how lofty their aspirations may be. So what is a would-be wall-of-sound popsmith to do? Maybe take a lesson or two from Long Beach, CAâs Bikeride.â


NEXTPLANETOVER- âFor the past month Iâve been playing a cd by a band called Bikeride so often that my need to hear it probably qualifies as an addiction.â


AVERSION- âUnlike Beck, Fatboy Slim, or most of the other polyester-flag waving retro revivalists, Bikeride approaches its journeys into â70âs pop without the affected cooler-than-thou sense of kitsch marking the bulk of its contemporariesâ work.â


EYE- âRegardless of how many goodies the band tosses into the stew, what keeps it so succulent is the never-faltering earnestness of it all.â


SOUND AFFECTS- âWhat do you get when you throw every dazzling moment from the pop highlights reels of the last 35 years into a blender. Bikeride⦠If itâs at all possible to actually wear out a CD the way you could wear out the grooves of old LPs, then Iâll be in the market for a new copy of this disc very soon.â


EXCLAIM- âCarbone delivers his own State of the Suburban Union Address in Thirty-Seven Secrets, a frequently wonderful product of low-budget ingenuity and a big, soft heart.â


INDIE SCENE- âTony Carboneâs voice pulls you in with its distinctive charm. Gutsy, flirty and vaguely childlike, he sounds like the boy version of Gwen Stefani⦠I canât overstate the joyful vigor of this album. Itâs smart, itâs fun, itâs sharp, itâs bodacious and itâs just a little bit sloppy. In other words, a perfect pop record.â


SPLENDID- âMorning Macumbaâs most transcendently melodic moments seem like pure serendipity â one hundred percent luck, zero percent studio trickery. Their successes are exhilarating.â
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