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Track Listings
| 1. Back When I Was 4 |
| 2. Alphabet |
| 3. No LSD Tonight |
| 4. Don’t Let The Record Label Take You Out To Lunch |
| 5. Gold |
| 6. Texas |
| 7. Sea Song |
| 8. Arrow |
| 9. Zaster |
| 10. If You Shoot The Head You Kill The Ghoul |
| 11. I Saw A Hippy Girl On 8th Avenue |
| 12. Graveyard |
| 13. You Don’t Have To Be A Scientist To Do Experiments On Your Own Heart |
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I saw Jeff Lewis this past Monday night and was completely blown away, so I ran the very next day to purchase his album, despite the fact that I was completely broke.
This album is a work of pure genious. While Lewis may not have the greatest voice, or the most fabulous guitar skills, his lyrics make this album one of the greatest I've heard in years.
The standout tracks include "Don't Let the Record Label Take You Out to Lunch", a song that includes such fabulous one-liners as "Though the fishes look delicious someone's gotta do the dishes." But the song contains a deeper message, one that seems to be convayed throughout the entire album- "I'll hold off on the hor devours, that's not what I'm in it for, I only want what I deserve, I want no less I want no more."
The following song, "Gold", made me cry the first time I heard it. Sung in such an informal manner, you can hear every emotional swallow, and at one point Jeff's voice even cracks. Tightly packed with lyrics and with slight fluctuations in the melody, the melodic guitar in the background is just enough to make the track a song, rather than a deepfelt poem.
"Sea Song" is great lyrically, but it's the guitar and background noises that have me falling asleep when I hear this song.
"I Saw A Hippy Girl on 8th Avenue" has a great message, that it's what's on the inside that counts, and seems to portray Jeff Lewis as a really down-to-earth guy, the kind you'd love to be friends with. And it's this raw charm that permeates the entire album, and makes it seem as if Lewis is not singing,but rather, commiserating with an old friend. Lewis makes it personal, and that, combined with the fact that it's a musically genious album, is what makes it terrific and worth all the gold in the world.
This album is a work of pure genious. While Lewis may not have the greatest voice, or the most fabulous guitar skills, his lyrics make this album one of the greatest I've heard in years.
The standout tracks include "Don't Let the Record Label Take You Out to Lunch", a song that includes such fabulous one-liners as "Though the fishes look delicious someone's gotta do the dishes." But the song contains a deeper message, one that seems to be convayed throughout the entire album- "I'll hold off on the hor devours, that's not what I'm in it for, I only want what I deserve, I want no less I want no more."
The following song, "Gold", made me cry the first time I heard it. Sung in such an informal manner, you can hear every emotional swallow, and at one point Jeff's voice even cracks. Tightly packed with lyrics and with slight fluctuations in the melody, the melodic guitar in the background is just enough to make the track a song, rather than a deepfelt poem.
"Sea Song" is great lyrically, but it's the guitar and background noises that have me falling asleep when I hear this song.
"I Saw A Hippy Girl on 8th Avenue" has a great message, that it's what's on the inside that counts, and seems to portray Jeff Lewis as a really down-to-earth guy, the kind you'd love to be friends with. And it's this raw charm that permeates the entire album, and makes it seem as if Lewis is not singing,but rather, commiserating with an old friend. Lewis makes it personal, and that, combined with the fact that it's a musically genious album, is what makes it terrific and worth all the gold in the world.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The trouble with seemingly 'confessional' singer songwriters like Lewis is that they are often spoiled by any success that their talent brings them. Lewis himself seems aware of the pitfalls on 'Don't let the record label take you out to lunch', singing "& don't let showmanship get more important than honesty'. He has thankfully managed to keep his authenticity intact after the small word of mouth success of 'The Last Time I took Acid I went insane', and there is more of the same Lo-Fi whimsy and tiny truths on offer here.
Some of the songs are already familiar; the single 'Back when I was 4', and the album closer 'You don't have to be a scientist to do experiments on your own heart' from 'Anti-Folk volume 1'. Anyone who has seen Lewis play on these shores in the last year and a half might recognise 'Gold' and 'If you shoot the head you kill the ghoul'. The production on this record is slightly better than his debut (relatively speaking), but it is an album just as likeable and sweetly honest if not quite as comic.
A small triumph for the cracked.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The first thing that strikes you about this album is that Jeffrey Lewis is an unbelievably good wordsmith. He has so many good ideas he occassionally struggles to fit them all into his songs. Secondly, on 'It's The One's Who've Cracked...' he shows that he is one of the best lo-fi artists currently recording. This album is up there with great lo-fi albums like 'One Foot In The Grave' by Beck, 'Garfield' by Adam Green, and stuff by Smog, Devendra Banhart and Will Oldham. If you like simply recorded acoustic albums with humour, style and intelligence, this album is a must buy. Some of the lyrics are the best I've heard for a long time... "Back when I was six I took everything real serious and I thought that every song that came on the radio was referring to strange sexual acts because they thought I wouldn't know the facts". A great talent.
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Lovely stuff from the master of anti-folk...
The anti-folk, lo-fi troubadour hits his stride with this fantastic album, his most consistently brilliant record. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. A. D. W. Brown
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I have to give it 5 stars because this is a fantastic album. This is his second and most recent album to date. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2003 by idleone
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I wrote this a while ago...
"While Lewis may not have the greatest voice, or the most fabulous guitar skills, his lyrics make this album one of the greatest I've heard in... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2003 by Tal
Jeff Lewis is cracked!
I saw Jeff Lewis this past Monday night and was completely blown away, so I ran the very next day to purchase his album, despite the fact that I was completely broke. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2003 by Tal
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