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Music CD - The Avalanches: Since I Left You
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Music CD: Since I Left You
Artist: The Avalanches
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $9.99
Your Save: $ 1.99 ( 17% )
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. Since I Left You
2. Stay Another Season
3. Radio
4. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time
5. Avalanche Rock
6. Flight Tonight
7. Close To You
8. Diners Only
9. A Different Feeling
10. Electricity
11. Tonight
12. Pablo's Cruise
13. Frontier Psychiatrist
14. Etoh
15. Summer Crane
16. Little Journey
17. Live At Dominoes
18. Extra Kings
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0643443117722
Format: Enhanced
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Summary: Amazing
Comment: This album is refreshing, creative and moving, attributes that are rare in music these days. Everyone loves a catchy tune, and the Avalanches find a new way to entice you and move you in a new way. When I first heard this album I knew I wanted to hear it again. It is something you can listen to anywhere with anyone for any type of mood. This album definately has sentimental value to me because it brings back memories of a good period in my life, but that's not the only reason why it holds so much value. The music itself has the ability to create a mystical and mysterious vibe.
Frontier Pyschiatrist and Since I Left You are my favorites. Bound to make you move or chill you out, whatever you're feeling.
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Summary: Absolute joy
Comment: Many people have speculated and argued about what kind of music is played on Hell's loudspeakers. I don't know the answer to that question, but I guarantee you Since I Left You is on a 24-hour loop in Heaven. This album is amazingly, unbelievably, mind-blowingly great. It is total and utter joy and freedom from beginning to end. Some people will tell you that this and that song are good, and this and that song aren't as good, and blah blah blah. They are wrong. Some parts of it may take a while to grow on you, but if you have any kind of soul it will happen. Besides, at its core it's not a bunch of different songs released on one CD, the way most albums are. It's one work and deserves, more than any other album I've ever heard, to be treated and listened to as such. It's well worth it.
This is undoubtedly the greatest album ever created.
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Summary: Already one of my all-time favorites...
Comment: This music is so refreshing. I agree with some of the other entries, you definately need to listen to it a few times before you make any decisions about it. Pay close attention to tracks 1, 2, 9, 10, and 14. In fact, my advice would be to play these first until you fall in love with them, then move on to the other tracks. They are definately funky. I'm always grooving my head or tapping my foot to this music, which is uncommon for me.
Anyway, highly recomended. If you have eclectic taste in music this is one you have to have.
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Summary: A Modern Classic
Comment: A few months ago, my roommate let me borrow this CD, which I automatically ripped and gave back to him. I didn't really listen to it until he had urged me enough times that it got on my nerves...after listening to the first song, I was unimpressed. I had already heard the Go! Team and figured that they did what the Avalanches do, only more to my liking. Every time he asked me what I thought of it, I would get extremely annoyed and would feel less like listening to it. Then one day we got into an arguement about the album where I explained my reasons for not thinking it was anything special. It got heated and I eventually kicked him out of my room. I started to feel quite stupid about this. So I decided to listen to the whole album again. That was about two months ago. I have listened to this CD several times a day ever since. It is one of my favorite albums ever! Absolutely brilliantly constructed. I even began searching out all the samples that they used...I haven't found many, mostly just the ones that are listed in the album cover. A few weeks ago I went out and bought it, because it seriously is one of the best albums I have ever heard. I talk to pretty much every one I meet about how great this record is. Not everyone agrees with me...perhaps they too will come around like I did. Viva Los Avalanches! Actually, I'm a little nervous about their first album. They perfected what they do on this album (their debut) as far as I can tell, but perhaps they have more that they haven't shown us yet. BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT!
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Summary: Multicoloured samples = funky summer lushness
Comment: 'Since I Left You' is an electronica landmark, a no-holds-barred approach to samples and sounds, creating for funky summer lushness. The Avalanches' debut is a dense recording in the same way Da Bomb Squad is dense, but instead of avant-garde noise, it's more about creating summer radiance, sparkling brilliance. Just think 'Bitches Brew' meeting 'Three Feet High And Rising' by De La Soul. After awhile though, this continuous sample-fest (yes there are no breaks) drags-on a bit, the impression that samples were randomly thrown together, almost like audio-babble, the more overdubs the better. But on the otherhand, there is no sense of overkill and chaos, creating for a lighthearted ambience, with a beat-driven backbone holding this multicoloured-cocktail together. What else can be said? 'Since I Left You' exhibits musical vision, and most importantly, you can dance to it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Avalanches are a much-feted six-man crew of sample addicts from Australia whose debut album, Since I Left You, is a bargain-bin vinyl throwback to the Daisy Age. This album is constructed like a mix tape and calculated to tweak the dance floor. Snatches of familiar rhythms bubble up throughout, giving the record a comfortable lived-in feel but also betraying the fact that the group hasn't dug very far through the crates to source their raw material. There's little doubt that this kind of sample reconstruction has become standard fare for retrogressive adolescents with precious little musical flair and a mania for collecting records. The Avalanches get full marks for their seamless mixing skills, but otherwise it all feels way too tidy, bristling with its own inventiveness when it should be striving for something that transcends its influences. --Chris Campion
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