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Pete Yorn - Music for the Morning After


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I bought this on the fly at Virgin awhile's back, and this was one of the happy times that I actually picked right. Here's an apt description from someone at Amazon:

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

The phonograph crackling that opens Pete Yorn's debut album is an appropriate gesture for an artist hailed as the best thing to come out of South Jersey since Bruce Springsteen. Actually, Yorn doesn't sound a thing like Springsteen, but he does possess a classic pop craftsmanship shared by tradition-minded singer-songwriters such as Neilson Hubbardand Elliot Smith. On the cool, infectious "Life on a Chain," Yorn's relaxed crooning evokes the spirit of Bruce Cockburn, while "Simonize," ostensibly a love song penned by Jack the Ripper, calls to mind Big Star-period Alex Chilton. Rhythmically, the part-time drummer and multi-instrumentalist (he scored the Farrelly brother's movie Me, Myself and Irene and plays most of the instruments here himself) leans toward the drone lilt of early New Order and Joy Division, resulting in a smooth fusion of American and Anglo influences that make Yorn a new artist well worth watching. --Bill Forman

You can listen to a few strains here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=music

1. Life On A Chain

2. Strange Condition

3. Just Another

4. Black

5. Lose You

6. For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)

7. Murray

8. June

9. Sense

10. Closet

11. On Your Side

12. Sleep Better

13. EZ

14. Simonize

 

Disc: 2

1. New York City Serenade

2. Dancing In The Dark

3. Panic

4. China Girl

 5. Strange Condition (Rock Version)

 6. Strange Condition (Video)

 7. For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) (Video)

 8. Life On A Chain (Video)

 9. June (Video)

 

 

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I bought this on the fly at Virgin awhile's back, and this was one of the happy times that I actually picked right.

Congratulations!! I have never had that feeling......excluding guns of course. I always pick the wrong album, door, wife, job....you name it. :wha':

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Ok now I've heard a couple of tracks at a decent bitrate... and it's just as I thought... he's rather good ... LOUD

May need further scrutiny :bigsmile:

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