Tower in the Fountain of Sparks

Artist: Airport 5
Label: Recordhead Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 802685003921
EAN: 0802685003921
ASIN: B00005M963

Release Date: 2001-08-21

Tower in the Fountain of Sparks

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Tracks:

Burns Carpenter, Man of Science
Total Exposure
Subatomic Rain
One More
Mission Experiences
Cost of Shipping Cattle
Circle of Trim
War and Wedding
Stifled Man Casino
Up the Nails
Tomorrow You May Rise
Feathering Clueless (The Exotic Freebird)
Mansfield on the Sky
White Car Creek
Remain Lodging (At Airport 5)

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Customer Reviews:

Nice memories.......2006-10-27

This is a fine album that ocassionally reminds us of the magic between Bob and Tobin that has sorely been missed in GbV for some time.

Highlights: "Burns Carpenter," "Total Exposure" (one of Bob and Tobin's best songs, period), "Stifled Man Casino" and "Feathering Clueless."

bob and tobin.......2006-07-23

how can it go wrong? the greatness achieved during their first collaboration (all the classic era GbV and the incredible twisted tonic and chasers) is strangely missing. in its stead one gets an entirely enjoyable and bland album. this is a three star record. however, the very presence of stifled man casino earns it an extra one!

Pollard needs to show some restraint.......2003-04-26

I am sorry. I am a big GBV fan, and a big Pollard fan, but he is losing his mind. No one on earth, ever, could expect to write half the number of songs he's publishing these days and have the majority of them be interesting tunes. This album is so non-memorable it's almost unbelievable that it comes from the (former?) master of the indie pop hook, Bob Pollard, and Tobin Sprout, a catcy tunesmith himself. I have listened to it five or six times since (gasp) purchasing it for full retail price, and I find it less interesting and more irritating very time. There are plenty of great GBV albums out there, as well as good Pollard side project albums. I am not, I might add, being an "old-GBV" purist, it's just simply that this album pretty much blows.

Do see GBV live if you get the chance, though. They rock. Bring earplugs.

Bob & Toby are my guys..........2001-10-20

And they don't let me down on this effort. Sprout lays down the instrumental tracks and Pollard contributes vocals and lyrics, with the exception of one exclusively Sprout track. The whole album jangles and buzzes and drones beautifully with Sprout's guitars, synths, and drums. Pollard's peerless melodic sense shines throughout and his trademark lyrical weirdness is as compelling and enigmatic as ever. This album has been in, on, or around my stereo for weeks. "Stifled Man Casino" is a crunchy guitar-pop gem guaranteed to make you get out your air guitar and nail those power chords, and "Tomorrow You May Rise" is a haunting anthem to human perseverance: "Stand up crying, don't bend/You are not lost in the present/Tomorrow you may rise..." The album's sound is remarkably crisp and clear for a relatively low-budget production and the cover art is monochromatically dark and cool (a photo of two guys at some kind of switchboard...Sprout and Pollard at the Fountain of Sparks?), much like the music itself. Buy it.

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