| Product Summary | | Label: Zoe Records (rounder) | | UPC: 00601143106620 | | Release Date: 6/27/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202593974 | | Item#: M2XDYK | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Wave Of Mutilation ~ Grant Lee Phillips |  | | 2. Age Of Consent ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 3. Eternal, The ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 4. I Often Dream Of Trains ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 5. Killing Moon, The ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 6. Love My Way ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 7. Under The Milky Way ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 8. City Of Refuge ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 9. So. Central Rain (Sorry) ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 10. Boys Don't Cry ~ Grant Lee Phillips | | | 11. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me ~ Grant Lee Phillips | |
| | Grant-Lee Phillips is one of the most gifted songwriters of his generation, having written and recorded critically lauded albums as both a solo artist during this decade and with his band Grant Lee Buffalo throughout the 1990s. On his new album, nineteeneighties, Grant-Lee pays tribute to the songwriters and artists who had a significant influence on his own work. Of those formative years, Grant-Lee says, "For every hokey hair band, there was once an alternative, parallel universe, existing just below the conservative, pastel surface. It was the same unstoppable energy that would come to erupt in the form of Nirvana in the early 90s. 'nineteeneighties' is a nod to some of the songs and some of the people that made a lasting impact on my own songwriting and musicianship."
nineteeneighties is a creative tribute to what was truly "alternative" during the formative 1980s and exhumes an age whose underground music has long outlasted the more popular songs of its airwaves. "This album is my personal mix tape, just as it's reeled around in my head for decades," states Grant-Lee.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Grant Lee Phillips (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 6-string guitar, 12-string guitar, baritone guitar, mandolin, baritone ukulele, harmonica, piano, toy piano, Wurlitzer piano, harmonium, organ, Mellotron, electric bass, percussion, programming, loops); Eric Gorfain (violin); David J. Carpenter (upright bass); Kevin Jarvis (drums). | | Grant Lee Buffalo had a gritty authenticity that always seemed more in line with the college rock crowd of the mid 1980s than with the angsty alt-rock boom of the '90s against whose commercial currents the band was forced to swim. It's no surprise, then, that lead singer Grant Lee Philips would look to the songs of New Wave and '80s alt-rock heavyweights for his 2006 release, aptly titled NINETEENEIGHTIES. His amiable back-porch spin on R.E.M.'s classic "So. Central Rain (Sorry)" and the pedal-steel-and-fiddle reworking of the Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation" are clever and lovely, while his acoustic take on Echo & the Bunnymen's "Killing Moon" recasts the song as a Southern Gothic lament. Philips can occasionally be too respectful when covering these songs, which makes certain numbers sound a tad ho-hum. But with a voice as achingly lovely as Philips's and a repertoire as fun as this one, NINETEENEIGHTIES is certainly worth a listen. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/27/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 431 066 | | Label : Zoe | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00601143106620 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (p.114)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e here covers 11 songs that run the gamut from wrist-slitting to darkly humorous. All are powerfully intimate."Mojo (Publisher)
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- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[B]ittersweet Americana, dusty-voiced, with a restrained, mostly acoustic backing." |
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