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Brendan Benson | Format: Audio CD
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As much as the story behind Brendan Benson’s fifth solo album is the story of making a record, it is also a story of finding a family — of love, marriage, the birth of a son, and of another kind of family too: one made up of all of the musicians, music-lovers and friends, who have helped to make these songs and ... Read more in Amazon's Brendan Benson Store

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  • Audio CD (1 July 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B0000682XE
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 63,870 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen11. Just Like Me 3:53£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Jetlag 8:17£0.69  Buy MP3 

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He might be best known for receiving the ferverent patronage of his fellow Detroit natives the White Stripes, but the songs on Brendan Benson’s second album display little of Jack and Meg’s raggedy-assed garage roar. Rather, Lapalco pricks memories of fine power-pop groups from years past. Drawing on the somersaulting melodies of Fountains of Wayne and Teenage Fanclub, Benson and his longtime musical colleague Jason Faulkner write ornate, technicolour-bright songs that revel in their own rose-tinted slackerdom.

On the misleadingly titled "Folk Singer", feedback-strewn power-pop melodies eddy past like dandelion seeds on the wind, while Benson sings self-consciously geeksome lyrics that directly reference his idols: "She says ‘Stop pretending/ You’re not John Lennon’". Sure enough, on "Tiny Spark", squelchy organs herald a classic-sounding 1960s riff that might as well have just stepped out of a time capsule. But Benson injects enough character and humour into his songs to avoid a sticky, stagnant fate. "Met a girl/ Introduced myself/ Asked her to go with me/ And no-one else" he sings, earnestly, on "Metarie". "You need a bath/ Your clothes are wrong," comes the withering reply, "You’re not my type/ Know we wouldn’t get along". With the gall to dump himself on his own record, how could this self-confessed loser fail to pull a winner out of the bag? --Louis Pattison

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Modern Masterpiece 23 Jan 2005
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
The best album of the last 5 years.

I've not repeatedly enjoyed or revisted an album as much as this since The Bends by Radiohead. Every song sparkles with loveliness and immaculate production. Metarie is simply beautiful, and produced in such a way that the slower reprise of it at the end of the album is even more surprising in that it manages to be every bit as good as the earlier version.

Melodic, comforting, uplifting, calming, energising - this is going to set an almost unreachable standard for the forthcoming follow-up to meet. If my iPod was wiped, this would be one of the first albums that I'd put back on it.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brendan Benson Rocks (and Rolls)!! 24 Mar 2006
By Chris F
Format:Audio CD
I had to post this review after reading the review by thisisadrian which I completely disagree with, I absolutely love Indie music and somehow I'd never heard of BB until my girlfriend turned me on to him and I seriously cannot stop listening to all 3 of his albums which are all brilliant in different ways and he's nothing like David Gray or Coldplay he has far more cred than that! I think the previous reviewer may regret writing his nonsense since BB is now in a band with Jack White (Raconteurs), I've had the pleasure of seeing them live in Glasgow and they are going to be MASSIVE!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Andi_Thwaites 15 Dec 2004
By A Thwaites
Format:Audio CD
I was lucky enough to get tickets to see Keane live last month, usually when I go and see a gig the support acts are a mere distraction, not so on this occasion. Who is this guy? I was forced to ask, as one brilliant song followed another... Brendan Benson was the reply I received, the first thing I did the next morning was order his album.

The album is superb, stand out tracks for me have to be 'Life in the D', which has something of a Semisonic feel to it, and 'Jet Lag', but all fall behind the wonderful 'Metarie', which is, for me one of the best songs I have ever heard. It is true the album is 'a grower' as well, some of the songs I was not too keen on when I first got the album are now firm favourites.

I am glad I went to see Keane for a number of reasons, but one reason stands out above others, if I hadn't, I would probably have never heard of Brendan Benson, and that would have been a tradegy!

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars tongue in cheek
Brendan Benson manages to keep his tongue firmly in his cheek through this tour de fource where he doesn't hold up for a second doling out power pop classics with influences... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Caroline
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Album by a Much Underrated Musician
With so much bland music played on the radio these days, produced as a mere commodity by people only interested in money and celebrity; it is wonderful to discover artists such as... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mrs Penny Busby
4.0 out of 5 stars Lapalco review
I purchased this cd because i had heard and really liked a track on it called 'life in the D', at first i was slightly dissappointed as i wanted to here songs more similar to life... Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2010 by Mr. Sean P. Vaughan
1.0 out of 5 stars The soundtrack to purgatory...
Oh my god... so... boring... can't keep... awake...
Seriously, if you like Keane and David Gray and Coldplay and all those other tedious, adult 'indie' dullards then this... Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2005 by A. Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars timeless Pop
Do not expect much in ambitious content, distinction, originality or anything too addictive here. Then you may settle down to enjoy easy listening with an enjoyable mix of tempo,... Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2004 by Mr. Paul Millsom
5.0 out of 5 stars Mistreated indie genius makes dazzling bitchy comeback
Brendan Benson: romantic, loser, casualty of the record industry and once again an indie darling shows his mettle and resolve on this wonderful album. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2003 by "indie_girl"
4.0 out of 5 stars His name is Brendan, he likes to rhyme
Six years after his debut 'One Mississippi', New York resident Brendan Benson returns with a charming, witty and heartfelt twelve-strong collection of songs. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2003 by J. W. Bassett
4.0 out of 5 stars The King of Rock/Pop
Brendan Benson's second album Lapalco is one of the best Rock/Pop albums ever!He is a fantastic songwriter who plays almost all the instruments on the album. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2003 by "rock_pilgrim"
5.0 out of 5 stars Benson Delivers
Brendan Benson is an amazingly talented singer-songwriter! I bought this album after I sam him open up for Ben Kweller. His music is full of catchy, quirky, hooks and lyrics. Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely brilliant
Released in 2002, this continues to be in my top 10 favourite albums of the last 12 months at very nearly the halfway mark of 2003. Read more
Published on 19 May 2003
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