Label: Universal/Mercury
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 731458614722
EAN: 0731458614722
ASIN: B00005M05N
Release Date: 2001-07-05
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Artist: James
Label: Universal/Mercury Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 731458614722 EAN: 0731458614722 ASIN: B00005M05N Release Date: 2001-07-05 |
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Import edition of their 2001 studio album includes 11 tracks (2 less than the more expensive UK edition) including the first single 'Getting Away With It' (All Messed Up).Customer Reviews:
Slowburning Beauty - A Return to Form.......2001-10-19
Then a couple of dodgy albums - 'Millionaires' being particularly weak. Ephemeral pulp - perhaps a wink at the mainstream in mind, but very misguided. Deep waters just aren't any good at pulp. Witness Bono or Ed Kowalcsyk's miserable forays into MTV-ville.
So now - 'Pleased to Meet You' landed on my table without much excitement. Halfway through 'Space' I was interested again - a couple of songs later I remembered why I was such a huge James fan. The Jameses have remembered what is uniquely theirs - the simple lyrical, incremental, subtle pop song. Its incredible how good the three chord wonder can sound in their hands.
Outstanding tracks are:
Space - long ethereal build up to a classic James song. Goes forward adding slowly to the wall of sound until the abrupt end five minutes later. An object lesson in not rushing the climax. This is what James are all about.
English Beefcake - Driven by a simple but beautiful bass line. Haunting guitar and keyboard melody. Great lyrics. A somewhat strange outro leaves you uncertain if you've moved onto the next song or not. Pity about the WhoaHo stuff at the end.... .
Junkie - Up front miked accoustic guitar (think Everlast - Whitey Sings the Blues). Unhurried shuffling drums. Sounds like Tim's singing with a peg on his nose but he's got issues worth crooning about.
Pleased to Meet You - Probably the darkest track on the album and the most memorable for it. Starting with a simple repetitive guitar refrain with a spacey keyboard background. Enter the brushed snare - eerie chorus line - pregnant scary bass bridge - wham! hit the distort button. Needs to be played loud and often.
Alaskan Pipeline - Beautiful filmic endpiece. 'You mother me, I son you'. Say no more.
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