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~ Grandaddy (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (1 Jul 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B00008UVBI
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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Listen  1. Now It's On 4:08£0.69
Listen  2. I'm On Standby 3:12£0.69
Listen  3. The Go In The Go-For-It 2:58£0.69
Listen  4. The Group Who Couldn't Say 4:03£0.69
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Listen10. O.K. With My Decay 6:10£0.69
Listen11. The Warming Sun 5:43£0.69
Listen12. The Final Push To The Sum 4:23£0.69

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Sumday doesn't so much represent a stylistic change for Grandaddy as it does a change in attitude. The Sophtware Slump, its predecessor, was a superb album, combining low budget experimentalism and country-tinged American pop to evoke bands as diverse as the Flaming Lips, Neil Young and ELO. Sumday finds the Modesto, California band pretty much conducting business as usual, though this time their mood is noticeably brighter. "I got not reason to be / weathered and withery / like in the season of the old me," frontman Jason Lytle sings on opener (and first single) "Now It's On", demonstrating a newfound optimism that rears its sunny head throughout the album. "The Group Who Couldn't Say" could have been a bitter tirade against the music industry, but it's not, saved by Lytle's fragile voice, which is sweet without being naïve. The observational "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake", meanwhile, is carried along by a bouncy keyboard riff that's reminiscent of Under the Western Freeway's "A.M. 180", but with more playful lyrics. Even the slower, more melancholy songs like "Yeah Is What We Had", "The Warming Sun" and "Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World" retain the epic quality that is rapidly becoming Grandaddy's trademark sound: simple music played on a grand scale. --Robert Burrow

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'Sumday' is the third album from Californian based outfit Grandaddy. Recorded at the bands own Central Heat and Air studios, the album is a mix of Beach Boys style harmonies, fuzzed out guitars and shimmering electronica all topped with Jason Lytle's distinctive vocals. Also featured on the album is the single 'Now It's On'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lytle Wonder, 29 Jul 2003
Incredible. There are so few superlatives available to describe the beauty of Jason Lyttle's voice that it would appear almost futile to try and review this album. Granted, you cannot possibly begin to compare Sumday with The Sophtware Slump or western freeway, or for that matter the college bandesque (but still quality) broken down comforters collection, Ultimately, Sumday represents a kind of natural progession of age for Jason and the beardy ones that typifies everything they do beautifully. Namely, delightful and occasionaly outrageously catchy tunes presided over by one of the most gorgeous and haunting voices you are ever likely to hear. how wonderful it is to hear Monsieur Lyttle singing about genuinely heartfelt issues, a la The Warming Sun and Yeah is what we had. I'm not sure if anything will ever beat the astonishing "miner at the dial a view" for me, but i cannot express just how close virtually every song on this incredible album comes.

Truly, truly beautiful.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ok with their decay, 11 Jun 2003
The Sophtware Slump may or may not be their finest moment, but this is a worthy successor to that most excellent album, and in some ways improves on it. If Sohptware Slump had a problem, it was that it spread itself too thinly, and thus lost some in continuity and depth. Here, the Modesto gang concentrate their Pavement-esque talents into an album that is warm and, well, gorgeous. Lytle's wonderful voice melts your heart on the chorus of "Now It's On", and makes you want to throw yourself off a cliff as he softly sings "In a dream/You were waiting at the door for me" in "The Warming Sun", undoubtedly the best track on here.
Things slump a bit in the middle; tracks such as "Yeah Is What We Had" and "The Saddest Vacant Lot In The World" sound suspiciously auto-pilot, but they rally magnificently for the last four tracks, all of which are painful yet glorious in true Grandaddy tradition.
It's cohesive; it has heart; it has great lyrics. Some will say this is a step back from The 'Slump, but, hey, I'm certainly ok with their decay.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A dissapointing album from such an amazing band, 26 April 2004
At first listen this sounds like any other Grandaddy album, its got thoselingering basslines, wooshy sounds and gorgeous vocals, with catchy riffs.Which is lovely, really isn't it? However the more you delve into thealbum.. the less you find. The problem with Sumday is it just doesn't havehalf the depth or variety of Grandaddy's previous works, the tracks startto meld into each other and you start to wonder if you've heard latertracks earlier on in the album. Luckily there are still some stand outs;"Now its on" and "Stray dog and the chocolate shake" being veryimpressive.
So, it's an average album, but if you want outstanding stuff,and haven'theard much Grandaddyness before, look at Under the Western Freeway or TheSophtware Slump, two amazing records.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous and beautiful
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