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Badly Drawn Boy | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (4 Nov 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: XL
  • ASIN: B00006J67C
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,667 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Coming In To Land 1:37£0.79
Listen  2. Have You Fed The Fish 4:18£0.79
Listen  3. Born Again 4:40£0.79
Listen  4. 40 Days, 40 Fights 3:55£0.79
Listen  5. All Possibilities 3:54£0.79
Listen  6. I Was Wrong 1:10£0.79
Listen  7. You Were Right 4:52£0.79
Listen  8. Centrepeace 1:49£0.79
Listen  9. How? 5:17£0.79
Listen10. The Further I Slide 3:47£0.79
Listen11. Imaginary Lines0:45£0.79
Listen12. Using Our Feet 4:10£0.79
Listen13. Tickets To What You Need 2:48£0.79
Listen14. What Is It Now? 2:42£0.79
Listen15. Bedside Story 4:51£0.79

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Amazon.co.uk Review

It's hard to remember, listening to Have You Fed the Fish, that Badly Drawn Boy was once derided as lo-fi. On Damon Gough's third album, everything is writ large, his wobbly and whimsical songs transformed into bombastic epics. Finally, his much-vaunted Springsteen obsession starts making sense. For this is Gough's LA record, an extravagant conceit that really shouldn't work but, more often than not, does. Essentially, it's big music about simple things, love letters from California back home to his wife in Manchester. So when he tackles the sweet mundanities of domestic life on the title track, he plasters sentiments usually found on post-it notes across 40-foot billboards. The results are oddly moving, especially on "You Were Right", where dreams of a love triangle with Madonna and the Queen and memories of various celebrity deaths become a meditation on not taking anything for granted. Frequently, it's absurd, too: especially the crotchety funk of "Using Our Feet" and the Nilsson-ish Vaudeville of "Tickets to What You Need". Beware, though, because the grandiose production makes Gough's customarily fine songs not quite as accessible as usual--a few listens are needed before their charms cut through the flash. --John Mulvey

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Joyous 2002 "proper" LP by the prolific Mancunian! Includes "You Were Right".
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Michael
Format:Audio CD
I got this album as a xmas gift and expected it to be decent but nothing special. I was wrong, BDB was right; this is quality. From start to finish the voice is stunningly warm and intimate, distinctive and emotive. BDB's lyrics are excellent on certain songs such as 'All Possibilities' and 'How' and in parts I feel his lyrics are approaching a style typical of Morrissey; witty but incisive. Buy it if you want to relax with a close friend but your friends are away!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Vry gd 18 Nov 2002
Format:Audio CD
I liked this album as soon as I heard it: there are a couple of 'hook' tracks, such as 'You Were Right' and the title track itself, and the music established itself in my mind straightaway. But I wasn't sure if it was anything more than a week-long album until I had heard it through a few times. It really is one of those records that makes you think about it when you aren't listening to it. I remember saying to a friend "I really want to listen to that new Badly Drawn Boy"... after I'd had it a few days.

Like most rewarding music, "Have you Fed.." is ridden with influences, but not overtly so. I heard echoes of, amongst many others, Bob Marley, Beatles circa White Album, Beach Boys, even Stevie Wonder... Perhaps Gough's closest North American analogue is Beck, and this album certainly matches "Mutations" for musical adventurousness and emotional depth. In fact, as he sings "It's hard, it's hard, it's hard" on '40 days 40 fights' it sounds JUST like Beck.

It's not like Gough is ripping these guys off though; instead he is using eclectic sounds to produce something entirely new that has a sound entirely of its own. I can hear Ween in here too... maybe in the surreal lyrics: "I've wrestled the Octopus/ I came out with extra arms". Gough has credited Ween as an influence in the past.. and that's definitely a good thing.

In short: vry gd!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I hate to give 5 stars to albums because 5 stars should be given to great albums like 'Dark Side Of The Moon'. I'm not going to tell you this is 'Dark Side Of The Moon' but in all honesty I couldn't in my heart of hearts give this 4 stars.

Damon Gough and his alter-ego BDB is part of an essential trinity of British indie/rock/alternative music. Yes, they all hale from Manchester and I'm biased but who would doubt the quality of BDB, Doves and Elbow.

On this showing Mr Gough with the help of Beck's producer Tim Rothrock (Yes the same Beck and Rothrock that concieved the brilliant Odelay)has managed to tame the wild imagination and progressive ideas of first album 'The Hour of The Bewilderbeast' to give us a truly great album. This is an album that in my mind will always go down as an unsung classic, much like Doves' 'Some Cities' or Elbow's 'Cast Of Thousands'. Though many may never own this album I'm willing to bet if they buy any of these three albums in retrospect they may already own albums that are heavily influenced by these three masterpieces.

Many artists have made the LA album, few have managed the heights of 'Hotel California'. BDB never tried to match some of these albums he just wrote an album with massive strings, and wonderfully melodic tunes with great unprentetious lyrics gently placed on top.

Singles 'All Possiblities' and 'You Were Right' are in a set of songs that starts with the former and ends in possibly one of the finest songs I've heard since 'Bittersweet Symphony', namely 'How?'. But aside from the magnitude and ambition of this album in it's mid-section, those who found the first album unfulfilling due to Gough's raw talent, in songs like 'Born Again', '40 Days, 40 Fights' and 'What Is It Now?' you might find BDB is a more pallatable proposition.

I haven't raved as much as I wanted about this album but for it's current price this is like buying a Turner from a Boot Sale

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Fed them?
After his brilliant debut, "Hour of Bewilderbeast," Badly Drawn Boy (real name: Damon Gough) had a lot to live up to in his second (non-soundtrack) album. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2007 by E. A Solinas
Good Fun!
This is so enjoyable, the tunes are great and easy to get into, I especially like, "All Possibilities" which evokes memories of "About a Boy", which, of course he wrote the music... Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2006 by P. J. Aspel
Great stuff
The best BDB album. All tracks are excellent but the standout tracks are...

Born Again
You Were Right
How
The Further I Slide
What Is It Now? Read more

Published on 19 Mar 2006 by Mr. F. H. J. Clark
Stunning stuff
This really is an exceptionally good album. Since I put it on a couple of weeks ago, I've become somewhat addicted to it (you know how it goes! Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2005 by Simon L. Haywood
Competantly Drawn Album
As Big a fan as I am of the wooly hatted wizzard, this was one of the biggest musical dissapointments of my young life (Not that I've had an old one). Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2004 by futureman24
A rare piece of lyrical genius
It is a true shame that this album has not enjoyed more success. The entire album flows in a fashion that allows the listener to enjoy the occasional track or indeed follow from... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2003 by Martyn Allan
Have You Fed The Fish?
Much more accessible than 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast' this new Dadly Drawn Boy LP is a very different kind of album. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2003 by Matthew Alexander
Progression, beautfully achieved
Have You Fed The Fish? is like a story. It starts with an aeroplane landing, and ends with 'Bedside Story. Read more
Published on 15 May 2003 by Paul Usher
Beardy Brit in third good album in a row shocker....
Badly Drawn Boy is a rare commodity in these times. Without the chiselled looks of Justin Timberlake, nor the gifted voice of Coldplay's Chris Martin he has still managed to... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2003 by "marauderite"
The boy has it
If you are lover of boy bands ignore this review, this album is about talent and quality and music.
I am blown away with how someone with such a demure and shy public persona... Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2002 by J. F. Bullimore
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