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| Magic Potion | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Black Keys
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 3474
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 79967
UPC: 755979967228
EAN: 0075597996722
ASIN: B000GPIPD8
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Clean and Complete with Original Artwork Inserts and Case, Factory Sealed, Ships USPS First Class Mail Within 24 Hours, Satisfaction or a 100% Refund.
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| Tracks:
| • | Just Got to Be | | • | Your Touch | | • | You're the One | | • | Just a Little Heat | | • | Give Your Heart Away | | • | Strange Desire | | • | Modern Times | | • | The Flame | | • | Goodbye Babylon | | • | Black Door | | • | Elevator |
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Amazon.com
All hail the riff king! The Black Keys' guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach has the meanest way with a hook since Jimmy Page. He adds to his arsenal on the band's fourth full-length release, on which each track pounds its way into your skull with fuzzy, swampy fury. Less is very definitely more in Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney's world as the stripped-down guitar/drums attack smolders, burns, and then ignites without shifting into heavy-metal overdrive. But even with the occasional ballad such as "You're the One" slowing the momentum, this is an intoxicating blast of raw, thudding blues power. The duo impressively control the dynamics, raising and lowering the tension in a yin-yang struggle of ominous, greasy, heavy blues-rock that never sounds forced. With the exception of a few subtle but effective overdubs, this is the sound Auerbach and Carney heard in the drummer's basement studio where the music was recorded. Like the best rock and roll, the disc exudes a dark, cramped claustrophobia and foreboding sense of danger, just like wandering through a haunted house, unaware of what is behind the next corner. It's the main ingredient in the band's deceptively simple yet potent formula that creates this addictive, compelling, and often intense album. --Hal Horowitz
Album Description
Magic Potion, the Black Keys' fourth album, is a spectacularly stripped-down set of sneakily melodic blues-besotted rock concocted in the Akron, Ohio basement studio of drummer Patrick Carney. Guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach is possessed of a compelling, hurt-beyond-his-years voice and an approach to lead guitar that is both wildly expressive and utterly succinct. The self-taught Carney, who anchors these tracks, may force writers to return
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 A Perfectly Blended "Potion" September 15, 2006
26 out of 31 found this review helpful
It just doesn't get any simpler, or any better, than this.
"Magic Potion" features the same short list of ingredients that made The Black Keys great--only now everything's blended toghether even more perfectly. Two guys--guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney. Timeless blues songs about the timeless things: love, lust, desire, duplicity, troubles both simple and insurmountable. Auerbach's perfect blues voice, with just the right amount of weariness and longing. Just the right amount of drumming from Carney. And swirling throughought, Auerbach's great electric guitar crunching through monster blues riffs and spreading out into long lonely arcs of electrified ache.
On paper, the Black Keys sound like something dreamed up by record company executives trying to copy The White Stripes. Two people? Check. From a Rust Belt town? Check. Playing garage-y blues? Check. A name with a color in it? Check.
It sounds like something that's been done before. And it has. And yet the music's so good and simple and timeless and catchy that you can't help but love it anyway--this is the kind of music you hear just once and say, "Wow--who is this?" so you can pick up your own copy at your earliest convenience, if not sooner. The songs are every bit as good, and perhaps even more consistent, than those on 2004's "Rubber Factory." And there's some killer lyrics here, to boot. "I don't wanna go to hell, but if I do, it'll be cause of you," Auerbach growls on "Strange Desire," and it's hard to think of a simpler, fresher, or more authentically blues-y lyric. The band's website says this album's about "getting their signature sound down to a science," and that sounds about right. It's a shame more musicians can make timeless music so effortlessly--there's plenty of bands out there with three times as many people that don't sound half as good.
Magic Potion September 12, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best hard rock album of the year (more like the best rock album since "Elephant") that i've heard at least, this is their most solid work since "The Big Come Up" my other favorite BLACK KEYS album, every song rocks hard especially
"Just A Little Heat", "Modern Times", "Goodbye Babylon", "Just Got To Be", "Give Your Heart Away" and "Black Door" this album is ridiculously good!!!!
 Unadorned rock and roll October 16, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Black Keys are one of my favorite rock and roll bands with their garage band minimalism tempered by touches of blues and psychedelia. But I was a little surprised when the band signed to the eclectic Nonesuch label and wondered how this would affect their sound. Well, I needn't wonder at all as this album was literally recorded in a band member's basement and keeps the same raw and exciting sound as the bands previous work. Most of the songs are kept short and sweet with blistering blues based guitar and basic drumming giving way to melodic hooks like in "Your Touch" which is very catchy and has elements of pop without compromising their rough and tumble sound.
"You're the One" slows things down to a ballad tempo with a gauzy, slightly trippy love song that plays against the bands stereotype. "Just a Little Heat" and "Give Your Heart Away" find the band hopping back on the boogie train, while the bluesy wail of "Strange Desire" goes back to the bands roots and shows the groups knows its strength and plays to it admirably as they do with the blasting "Modern Times" and the lengthy workout "Goodbye Babylon." Anyone interested in unadorned rock and roll will find much to enjoy here.
They have they key December 1, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yeah, well I don't write many reviews. And I don't really want to categorize them as they have there own style of music.
Are they good?? No. More like being on the verge of being great.
Some bands tend to play straight chord progressions that are stock. Nothing wrong with that when playing the Blues but it gets old after
a fashion. Also if you are doing that the guitar must sing and weep.
They seem to have the IT factor and that doesn't come often when you are playing bluesy soulfull music.
For a two man band I was impressed and for me it takes alot.
Been listening to a vast array of noise since to very early 60's and
some say I could play a bit.
If you like stripped down music with a sound that isn't recyled this band would probably be for you. I heard many influences when listening to them
and even a few Hendrix like blasts. But utimately they have their own sound and it's damned good.
Big B.
Progression through simplicity September 15, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This band has one of the longest current winning streaks in rock - 4 solid albums in a row since '01. Detractors will immediately say, "Oh, but this has been done before" or "There is not much progression of their sound from album to album."
True, this HAS been done before, in many formats and styles for decades. However, very rarely is it done with such passion, consistency, and earth rattling power. This album, like all of their others, has a way of being subtly melodic and very listenable all while being absolutely bludgeoning.
As for the "progression" argument - if you want pretentious bands trying to expand their sound beyond their limits and talents there are plenty of examples (I will decline to name them here, after all, this review is about The Black Keys). This band makes their simplicity sound so, well, not simple. The songs feel fully realized while using the minimum in production and instruments - that is a "progression" of music if you ask me. I never would describe their sound as sparse or weak - it is big, bold, and powerful.
Bottom line - sometimes you are just in the mood for soulful music that absolutely rocks. If that sounds like your cup of tea, just buy the darn thing. It is the best such music currently on the market. Dangit I love this band.
No, I am not 13 years old by the way.
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