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Music : Lapalco
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Lapalco by: Brendan Benson |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0821487000624 Label: Vagrant Startime Manufacturer: Vagrant Startime Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Vagrant Startime Release Date: February 26, 2002 Studio: Vagrant Startime Sales Rank: 33687 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: While Brendan Benson may be best known for receiving the fervent patronage of fellow Detroit natives the White Stripes, the songs on his second album display little of Jack and Meg's garage roar. Rather, Lapalco recalls power-pop groups such as Fountains of Wayne and Teenage Fanclub. Benson and longtime musical colleague Jason Falkner write ornate, Technicolor-bright songs. On "Folk Singer," Benson directly references one of his idols: "She says, 'Stop pretending you're not John Lennon.'" Sure enough, "Tiny Spark" is built around a classic-sounding 1960s riff. Benson also likes to inject character and humor into his songs. In "Metarie," he sings that he "Met a girl/ Introduced myself/ Asked her to go with me/ And no one else," only to be told, "You need a bath/ Your clothes are wrong/ You're not my type/ Know we wouldn't get along." He might mock himself on his own record, but this self-professed loser has produced a winner of an album. --Louis Pattison Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Incredibly OverlookedThis is perhaps the best album I ever took a blind chance on. It immediately sounds like Ben Kweller's "Sha Sha" except with more varied songs, even catchier hooks and much better lyrics. For comparison's sake, I'd give "Sha Sha" a four. But this one tops it. I love all music, but can't stand most mainstream pop. Brendan Benson's "Lapalco" is the magic pop gem that gets it right, yet doesn't get annoying and manages to blow every Maroon Five, Jack Johnson and dare I say, maybe even Ben Folds out of the water. A must buy. Rating: - lapalcoThis is my favorite album of 2008. It's not a 2008 album, but I first listened this year. The Shephard's Dog was my favorite 2007. This is a very good album if you enjoyed Fountains of Wayne's first album, which I did. Rating: - one of the most important records I've heard in yearsEvery now and then a record comes along that changes the way you look at music. This is such a record for me. I haven't stopped listening to it yet, but I've already ordered his first and third albums. And when I am not listening to it, I'm talking about it. I can't add anything to what the others have written, but there is no need. They are right about this one. Rating:  - A marvelously affecting power pop albumI have a rule that I never review an album that I haven't heard at least ten times all the way through. If you scroll through my various reviews and notice just the music, I invariably give albums either four or five stars. This is mainly because albums I really dislike never fulfill the ten-times rule. I bring this up because on the first two or three hearings of this album I wasn't terribly impressed. I didn't think it a bad album, merely one that I wasn't going to be able to listen to ten times. I stuck with it, however, and somewhere around the sixth listen everything clicked. Now, I am a huge fan of power pop and have been since discovering Big Star, the Raspberries, and the Shoes ages ago. Now the thing is, those bands all blew ... Read More: Rating: - Catchy intelligent power popI bought Brendan Benson's latest album 'The Alternative To Love' and really loved it. I saw him in concert in Dublin a month ago and was similarly impressed. To be honest,in concert the songs that worked best were off the album 'Lapalco' which I hadn't heard. I bought 'Lapalco' a day after the concert and it's been on heavy rotation on my IPod ever since. Five of the twelve songs on 'Lapalco' were co-written with Jason Falkner ex-Jellyfish and The Grays. It has to be said that all of these songs are excellent. Falkner as a solo artist specialises in intricate, catchy, intelligent power-pop with lots of nice touches in every song that he does. He and Benson are a great combination ... Read More: |
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