Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis Artist: Stuart Davis
Label: Oarfin Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 710061601220
EAN: 0710061601220
ASIN: B00005EBGF


Release Date: 2001-03-27

Stuart Davis


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Tracks:

  1. Surfaces
  2. Babies
  3. Rock Stars and Models
  4. Dresden
  5. Fault Lines
  6. Invincible
  7. Savoring Samsara
  8. Doppelganger Body Donor
  9. Immanence
  10. Ladder
  11. Dive
  12. Swim
  13. Drown

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Album Description

Stuart Davis' eponymous release, his second on his fan-funded Post-Apocalyptic Records label, finds the "punk monk" continuing to examine the themes of sex, death, and God in his own indescribably unique way.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Terrifyingly good.......2003-10-12

Listening to this album is like being struck in the face with a really big, intellectual-level book about the dark side of human nature. Except the pain is good, because it is revealing sides of human life that maybe you wouldn't attend to otherwise.

When I first put this album on I felt that it may be too intense to become a favorite; many of these songs are written from the "shadow side," from the point of view of characters with fractured lives: a survivor of Dresden who despises tourists who come to visit the ashes; a man whose karma has been inverted so that he is never punished when he brings harm unto others; a man whose emotional faultlines cause earthquakes, and other similarly fractured people. Intense as these sketches are, this self-titled album has in fact become a favorite, and indeed may be one of his best; certainly it is one of the top three of his later, more rock-influenced works (as opposed to his early singer/songwriter coffeehouse works).

This time in the studio he is accompanied by a full band and with deep, subwoofer-worthy production values. It is meant to be listened to loudly. If you prefer something of his that is a little more sedate, you might try his solo-acoustic live album, The Late Stuart Davis instead (though he still kicks up a storm even when it is just him and a guitar on stage).

5 out of 5 stars Great CD.......2003-03-21

Good music, but better lyrics. Stuart Davis will change the way you understand the world.

5 out of 5 stars Explicitly Real.......2002-09-18

...five stars because this is the only album that contains a song that has brought me to tears. From this combination of songs, a person is able to get a pretty good taste of Stuart Davis, as I understand him. Insightful, poignant and pleasureably playful lyrics and -- Stuart with a band -- make for an essential part of my own music collection. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sit and spin within the silence...If you are familiar with Stuart's musical work and are unfamiliar with this album, I would say "Hey, why don't you give it a try -- its sound is completely different from any other album of his I own -- any album I have ever heard. I think you should check it out." Thoughtful and creative as ever, sex, God and death are all right there. I gave it five stars; I am a fan.

5 out of 5 stars Music to drown to.......2002-09-02

The Silver Album features Stuart's mix of rock, folk, punk, and formless everything in top form. "Rock Stars and Models", "Savoring Samsara", "Doppelanger Body Donor", and "Immanence" rock with the full force of understanding and the world. "Surfaces" is a beautiful ode to All. "Dresden" is haunting, while "Babies", "Fault Lines", "Ladder", and "Swim" hit right at home, in the mind and the heart. To top it all off, "Invincible", "Dive", and "Drown" point straight to the Heart. With each song, I look around, look up, look down, look in, look out, and then just look.

5 out of 5 stars The charismatic Bodhisattva-Bard of all things seminal!.......2002-07-10

You know how it is when someone says "you gotta check this guy out, he's amazing," and you think "yeah, whatever." I've been there and know how you feel...but trust me, YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS GUY OUT!

First, Stu knows how to build a soaring pre-chorus and launch into the hook. If you don't find yourself singing along to "Rock Stars and Models," "Doppelganger Body Donor" (OH NO,OH NO!), or "Savoring Samsara" check your pulse. If you like melody you've come to the right cd. He also knows how to use a bridge, often carving out a still and quiet spot to emphasize the lyrics, and also for contrast before diving back into the song. And be prepared for the intensity of the 2 minute blast that is "Immanence." "Everybody wants to taste/a little something carbon-based/sex is proof the Holy Ghost/crawls around in stuff that's gross." Where are ya gonna get lyrics like that? Science, sex, and God all in one couplet. Quintessential Stuart Davis!

Which brings us to my second point: Intelligent lyrics about sex, death, God, and the nature of Reality. Like the beautiful vulnerability of "Swim": "The only reason that it's scary getting old/is people treat you like you're too big to hold/and you still feel just like a kid." Or the blissful attachments we carry in "Samsara": I'm savoring samsara/even though the candy's hollow/it's all on my tongue/but there's nothing here to swallow/I know all these flavors/keep me here in hades/but it tastes so good/I keep incarnating." There's metaphor all over the place here too, especially in the "water trilogy" of "Dive," "Swim," and "Drown," which most people seem to think is the strongest part of the disc, the last two tracks being downright haunting. If you like language you've come to the right cd.

And lastly this disc is unmistakably intense and present. Part of that is the great production, and part of it is just Stuart Davis. He just has something about him that demands that you pay attention. You will laugh with this cd, long with it, soar with it, and love with it. It's fun, beautiful, moving, spiritual, and it rocks out! Mostly is reminds us of who we really are, and that's an incomprehensibly wonderful thing. It is indeed true that "Stuart Davis is the best songwriter you've never heard of."

Music Album:

  1. The Routine ~ Hotwire
  2. We'll Have a Time ~ Dear Nora
  3. Summer in the Southeast ~ Bonnie "Prince" Billy
  4. Dog ~ Mike Keneally Band
  5. York ~ The Foetus Symphony Orchestra & Lydia Lunch
  6. James Taylor (Best Live) ~ James Taylor
  7. Best Remixes ~ Cyndi Lauper
  8. The Plural of the Choir ~ Settlefish
  9. 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Tubes ~ The Tubes
  10. Rock 'n Roll Relix (Series): 1970-1971 ~ Various Artists

Music Album

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Music CD

Adult Themes ~ Anthony Wilson

Ultimate Collection ~ Shakatak

Platinum Swing

Old Head

Glass Ceiling ~ Andy LaVerne Trio

The Sermon! ~ Jimmy Smith

Music of the Middle East ~ Various Artists

Erementar Gerad Theme Song ~ Animation

Sofisticado ~ Mario Montaut, Samba de Alvrakelia

Cafe Bohemia ~ Motoharu Sano