Gemstones

Gemstones Artist: Adam Green
Label: Rough Trade Us
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 021823005027
EAN: 0021823005027
ASIN: B0007N19RS


Release Date: 2005-02-22

Gemstones


Related Categories:

General General
Categories | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Indie Rock Indie Rock
Categories | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Folk Rock Folk Rock
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock Pop Rock
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music
Alternative Folk Alternative Folk
Categories | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Tracks:

  1. Gemstones
  2. Down On The Street
  3. He's The Brat
  4. Over The Sunrise
  5. Crackhouse Blues
  6. Before My Bedtime
  7. Carolina
  8. Emily
  9. Who's Your Boyfriend
  10. Country Road
  11. Choke On A Cock
  12. Bible Club
  13. Chubby Princess
  14. Losing On A Tuesday
  15. Teddy Boys

Similar Items:

  1. Jacket Full of Danger
  2. Friends of Mine
  3. Garfield
  4. My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess
  5. Hidden Vagenda

Album Description

With a style that steps closer to the likes of Bacharach and Brel with each release, Adam Green has created Gemstones, his third solo record, combining his singular songwriting vision and plaintive, almost-angelic tenor with elegant melodies and playful art-pop arrangements. Gemstones is an album whose songs transcend indie rock in favor of more enduring virtues, and it offers 15 prime examples of Green's sculpted-yet-irreverent songcraft that has won him a sizable and ever-increasing audience in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan, where he's toured with the likes of The Libertines, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Kweller and The Strokes.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Garbage.......2006-10-22

Gemstones is a great song because it reminds me of why Adam Green had appeal. The rest of this album is so bad I could vomit. Please retire Adam Green or go back to your roots when your songs had feeling.

5 out of 5 stars Adam Green is the newest Hans Christian Anderson.......2005-04-06

adam green's "Gemstones" is a wonderful collection of fun ditties that brings one's inner child. The songs remind one of nursery rhymes sung by a 30-year-old child. every song evokes a feeling of happiness. five stars to the new master of children's songs for adults.

4 out of 5 stars A breath of fresh air in a world of crap!.......2005-04-03

I love this album! I've heard a lot about adam but I did not hear him until just the other day, man was I missing out. Great album full of weird and funny as hell songs,it's so great to hear something original out there in a world of copycats. highly recomended. 4.5*

5 out of 5 stars Maturity.......2005-03-25

Adam Green spent a lot of time in the band The Moldy Peaches. Right when people were getting into their odd style, they broke up, and Kimya Dawson and Green started doing their solo records. Adam Green started off doing something that was like Beck's younger brother. Finally on Gemstones, Green has hit his stride. Gemstones I suppose a reference to those people who get their cell phones decorated. The album cover is adorned with those things. Adam Green's voice even sounds different and nothing like Moldy Peaches. He sounds like a mix between Ray Stevens and early Nick Cave. His authoritative voice soars on "Gemstones" and "He's The Brat." Some of these songs have the elegance of Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy). Some of the songs like "Crackhouse Blues" and "Choke On A C---" lyrically sound like Moldy Peaches territory, but these sound more like early Dr. Demento stuff. I guess that maybe the Moldy Peaches would have been on Dr. Demento every week if they came out in 1980. Songs like "Who's Your Boyfriend" sound like Burt Bacharach. Adam Green is becoming more sophisticated. Young girls seem to love him. You have to admire what he does because it is so unique, singular, and uncompromising. This is a quality recording....

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Bloodbrothers ~ The Dictators
  2. Right Between the Promises ~ Freedy Johnston
  3. Oh Yes I Can ~ David Crosby
  4. Total Bugs Bunny on Wild Bass ~ Hella
  5. The Original Rumble Plus 22 Other Storming Guitar Instrumentals ~ Link Wray
  6. Cilla in the 70s ~ Cilla Black , George Martin , and Mike Hurst
  7. Keys to Ascension, Vol. 2 ~ Yes
  8. Bomb the Rocks: Early Days Singles 1989 ~ 5.6.7.8's
  9. Cut ~ Golden Earring
  10. The Noise Made by People ~ Broadcast

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

(H)ombre ~ Jean-Pierre Mas

Toshiko Akiyoshi at Maybeck ~ Toshiko Akiyoshi

Person to Person ~ George Cables

Music CD 08

1954 - 1966 ~ Dave Brubeck

Vienna's Heardt ~ Thomas Reimer

Marko Melkon ~ Marko Melkon

Red Hot Mamas ~ Various Artists

Honoring the Ancient Ones ~ Arawak Mountain Singers

Nagorizake ~ Kazuya Iwade