00-okkervil_river-black_sheep_boy-(jag80)-cd-2005-ipc.nfo
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| Artist : Okkervil River |
| Album : Black Sheep Boy |
| Label : Jagjaguwar |
| Catalog # : JAG80 |
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| Source : CD |
| Genre : Indie |
| Language : English |
| Rip date : 2005-04-13 |
| Store date : 2005-04-05 |
| Rip tool : EAC |
| Encoder : LAME 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard |
| Quality : 208kbps avg VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo |
| Url : http://www.jagjaguwar.com |
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| 1. Black Sheep Boy 1:18 |
| 2. For Real 4:42 |
| 3. In A Radio Song 5:39 |
| 4. Black 4:39 |
| 5. Get Big 3:55 |
| 6. A King And A Queen 3:22 |
| 7. A Stone 5:23 |
| 8. The Latest Toughs 3:11 |
| 9. Song Of Our So-Called Friend 3:23 |
| 10. So Come Back, I Am Waiting 8:03 |
| 11. A Glow 3:43 |
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| 47:18 |
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| On Okkervil River's first Jagjaguwar release, Don't Fall in Love with |
| Everyone You See, the band included a song entitled "Listening to Otis |
| Redding at Home During Christmas," a kind of re-imagining of Redding's |
| "I've Got Dreams to Remember" slyly configured around the character's |
| personal experience of the song and exploding, in the final chorus, into |
| an unabashed, exuberant cover. On the band's newest release, they |
| perform a trickier feat, as songwriter Will Sheff takes a lesser-known |
| spins that short song's imagery into a phantasmagorical evocation of the |
| title character, including a brief cover and a couple of sprawling, |
| surreal sequels. |
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| Okkervil River's 2003 album Down the River of Golden Dreams earned wide |
| critical praise; Magnet called it the 8th best album of the year, |
| comparing it to Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and |
| adding that "Okkervil River has that sort of mythical genius. Down the |
| River...is a story of epic proportions--a battle with the enemies at hand |
| that spirals into a confrontation of the demons within. "In the New York |
| Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that "Down the River of Golden Dreams...lays |
| clever, heartbreaking lyrics over simple, stirring chord |
| progressions...Mr. Sheff uses a rickety voice to disguise wild ambition," |
| while David Fricke wrote in Rolling Stone that "Singer-songwriter Will |
| Sheff of the haunted-country quartet Okkervil River is ready for |
| worldwide renown. His ambitious melancholy on Down the River of Golden |
| Dreams...would be impressive enough with just soft strum and Sheff's |
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| Black Sheep Boy is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record |
| yet, a love story and adult fable that evokes the mature songcraft of |
| Young's On the Beach, and the raw nerves and trick effects of Big Star's |
| Third/Sister Lovers. It also occasionally echoes Lou Reed's Transformer |
| in that it is actually the band's most playful and confident record by |
| far, delighting in linguistic games, scrapping all caution and reserve, |
| reveling equally in sheer pop, lacerating rock and roll, and straight-up |
| country weepers. The most fully-realized and wildly adventurous Okkervil |
| traditional palette of mandolin, pump organ, steel guitar, Wurlitzer, |
| strings and horns such previously foreign elements as children's |
| keyboards, digitally-manipulated field recordings, and dirty splatters |
| of distorted guitar. The longing might be keener, but the fun is funner |
| this time around, too; somebody has spiked the drinks, and there are at |
| least two bullets in the Russian roulette chamber. |
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| moved out of his house to spend all of 2003 on the road, touring for |
| Down the River of Golden Dreams and road-tripping around the country |
| during off weeks. After rehearsing many of the new songs on the road |
| during tours with Califone, John Vanderslice, Azure Ray, CocoRosie, and |
| Clem Snide, the band retreated to an un-air-conditioned Austin, Texas |
| tin roof shed to solidify the arrangements before going into the home |
| studio of Brian Beattie (an ex-member of Austin legends Glass Eye as |
| well as a producer for Daniel Johnston) who also recorded the band's |
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| In pursuit of Black Sheep Boy, Beattie emptied his house, ran tangles of |
| cables and carefully-placed microphones through the hallways, and |
| captured most of it live in the wee hours of the night. The band then |
| dragged what they'd captured into Beattie's dark and tiny backyard shed |
| and began performing delicate surgery on it, grafting on horns, |
| introducing additional organs, and forcibly stimulating it by occasional |
| jarring blasts of electr |
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