Mobile Home

Artist: Longpigs
Label: Universal/Polygram
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731454307222
EAN: 0766485614520
ASIN: B00002MHME

Release Date: 2000-05-30

Mobile Home

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Tracks:

The Frank Sonata
Blue Skies
Gangsters
Free Toy
Baby Blue
Dance Baby Dance
Miss Believer
I Lied I Love You
Keep The Light Alight
Speech Bubble
Dog Is Dead
Loud And Clear
In The Snow

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Album Description

The Britpop/ alternative rock group's 1999 album, featuring the single 'The Frank Sonata'. 13 tracks. 1999 release.

Album Details

Sheffield's Longpigs Return after a Us Tour with Mobile Home. This is a Follow Up to their Gold Album the Sun is Often Out and Four Top 40 Singles.

Customer Reviews:

Imported British Rock at its Best.......2005-02-01

I loved the single 'On & On' from Longpigs' other album "The Sun Is Often Out." This single alone had me anticipating all of their other songs. I realize I have arrived a bit late as a Longpigs' fan. But I glad that I bought "Mobile Home." Hopefully "The Sun Is Often Out" will arrive shortly.

Listening to this album is surely a pleasure. The opening song 'The Frank Sonata' is impressive. 'Blue Skies' boasts manipulative guitars and the following song 'Gangstars' has Crispin Hunt constantly singing, rhyming, and gave me a reminder of what Greg Alexander did with the New Radicals. I enjoyed Dance Baby Dance mostly because I have been listening to a band called The Music whose music is electronic guitar rock. 'Miss Believer' is soft, gentle with vocals overlapping each other every once in awhile. Many Remy Zero songs are similar to this. 'I Lied I love You' is very lovable and great to sing along with while being sad and depressed. 'Speech Bubble' again boasts the same distorted guitars heard in 'Blue Skies.' The song 'Loud and Clear' features wonderful country steel guitars and violens at a not-so-country beat.

These are just a few highlights of an excellent album that still works 5 years after its release. The album hangs its hat on the vocals of Crispen Hunt, who has a lot of range from top to bottom. Comparisons to Radiohead and Coldplay are valid, however, keep in mind "Mobile Home" was created before Coldplay and after "OK Computer." It's not a concept album like OK Computer and the even though the songs reach depressing subjects, the album feels much lighter and more uplifting then the dark and dreamy sounds of "OK Computer."

"Mobile Home" brings back memories of so many awesome bands but still the album stands perfectly on its own. One might think that bands like Remy Zero, Coldplay, and even Radiohead and U2 might be influenced but such a wide range of songs.

The album is as impressive as "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" by The New Radicals. Crispen Hunt's talents are equal or perhaps even great then that of Greg Alexander of The New Radicals. His vocals range from a dark Thom Yorke of Radiohead to a melodic Cinjun Tate of Remy Zero to the tragedy in Greg Alexander of The New Radicals.

The more I listen to this album, the more I like it. It's very hard to give 5 stars to an album (I think only 3 or 4 off the top of my head, none of which I have reviewed).

But "Mobile Home" only has minor faults. I'm gonna rate it 5 stars but state here that the album is a very strong FOUR AND A HALF STARS. I don't want to even go down to 4 stars because the album is by all accounts, British Rock at its best.

unusual.......2002-04-17

this disc is unusual b/c Crispin Hunt actually writes lyrics that have meaning/depth
anyone who has lost at love needs to hear "I Lied I Love You"
"Speech Bubbles" reminds one of the Stones at their peak, i.e. "Honky Tonk Women"
the entire disc is challenging, intelligent and well crafted

Colin.......2001-09-07

The record is a masterpiece. But it takes a lot of gettinh used to. I was pretty appalled by 'Gangsters', which featured a long unfocussed rant at the end, and this song remains the weakest, along with 'Dance Baby Dance', a ramshackle piece of disco. But who can argue with 'Blue Skies'? 'Dog is Dead' and 'In the Snow' are also classics, which are destined never to be heard. i think Hunt's vocal virtuosity is the difference between the Pigs and the detritus of Britrock. He can do things with his voice that Liam Gallacher wouldn't dream of trying-check out 'I Lied I love You' for a prime example.

unbelievable.......2001-03-20

I cannot believe these guys are not huge. Frank Sonata alone is enough to to send these guys over the top. Makes oasis and coldplay look like rookies.

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