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Music CD - The Postal Service: Give Up
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Music CD: Give Up
Artist: The Postal Service
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $9.09
Your Save: $ 4.89 ( 35% )
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Manufacturer: Sub Pop
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Tracks:
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1. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
2. Such Great Heights
3. Sleeping In
4. Nothing Better
5. Recycled Air
6. Clark Gable
7. We Will Become Silhouettes
8. This Place Is a Prison
9. Brand New Colony
10. Natural Anthem
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0098787059526
Label: Sub Pop
Manufacturer: Sub Pop
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sub Pop
Release Date: 2003-02-18
Studio: Sub Pop
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Infectious, amazing
Comment: I came to this album with fresh ears, meaning I had never heard Death Cab For Cutie, or Dntel. In fact, I'd never heard anything by either of them. I happened to stumble upon this one day on Pandora.
After reading all the rave reviews and hearing a few samples I bought the album.
The first time I listened I thought "Ehh, it's okay. Not sure what all the hype is about."
Then I found the songs stuck in my head. So I listened again.. and again.. and, well now I am listening to this album every single day.
It is quite simply an intelligent, innovative, original and flat out fun album.
Highlights include "We Will Become Silhouettes" and "Nothing Better" and "Brand New Colony". The atari-like bass in "Nothing Better" is sort of weird and almost annoying at first but like the rest of the album it works its way into your brain and eventually you end up loving the way it meshes so perfectly with Ben's voice.
The weakest tracks are "This Place Is A Prison" and "Sleeping In". The former is just boring, the latter would be OK but the lyrics are a little pretentious.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An Ultimate Album
Comment: So, I've had "Give Up" for about 4 years now and have never stopped listening to it. Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard are the Batman and Superman of music. Delivering imagery lyrics with pop-addictive instrumentals, these songs evoke the ups and downs of an eternal romance we all hope to experience, in a way that's unusual but not obscure.
While the album is, obviously, about the music, which is fantastic, you can't mention these songs without describing the emotions of the lyrics AND the music. While most of us are familiar with Gibbard, Tamborello strongly holds his own in administering the beats and sounds to emphasize the lyrics but could easily be enjoyed by themselves.
With accompanying vocals provided by Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl (Jenny Lewis and Jen Wood), every song is a nearly perfect orchestration of sound, feeling and imagination. While, I'm sure that most people are introduced to today's "indie music" scene with this album, it really is a classic and highly recommended.
Also, I suggest checking out Tamborello's other band, Figurine or James Figurine. If you're a PS fan, you'll definitely be able to pick out 1 or 10 songs from these albums; especially, since Dntel is a bit rougher to jump into.
My favs in order (although, they tend to jump around by my mood), although nothing scores less than a 9.5.
1. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
2. Brand New Colony
3. Clark Gable
4. Natural Anthem
5. We Will Become Silhouettes
6. Recycled Air
7. This Place Is A Prison
8. Such Great Heights
9. Sleeping In
10. Nothing Better
Customer Rating:
Summary: You get your mail from..., you guessed "The Postal Service" ?
Comment: Ok, so pretty much everything has been said 'bout this album that's going to be said...except for this..."Brand New Colony" is straight up old-skool Mario Nintendo music...
Anyway, I'm only reviewing this album to help it out a lil, How the heck does this album not have a 5 star rating? I see so much crap on Amazon w/ 5 stars, but not this, wow...
Anyway, prolly one of the most beautiful albums ever made...Listen to it, "...when your drifting off to sleep"
O.o when they gunna have a new CD, I feel so starved...I guess theres no need to rush genius.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The way you move me
Comment: Arguably the best album of the millennia. Listening to it makes you cherish where you are and who you are with.
This Place is a Prison (SLEEPER!!)- The first half separates from the Second bringing in an intrepid drum-beat. Many people have already experience how amazing it is to SLEEP to. Try it, you owe it to yourself.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A great all-around album!
Comment: What can I say, this album is simply amazing! Great lyrics, great beats, irresistible melodies! This album has it all. I hope they release a second album someday!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Give Up, the debut release by this indie supergroup composed of Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel, is a smart, quaint, and often transcendent little pop record. The roots of the album lie in "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan," a woozy, gorgeous song recorded for the rad 2001 Dntel album Life Is Full of Possibilities. With Jimmy in L.A. and Ben in Seattle, the two simply mailed tracks back and forth, collaborating via (you guessed it) the United States Post Office. Lyrically it's far breezier and happier (though not too happy) than anything Gibbard had written up to this point for Death Cab. The music is an elastic, very smart update of synth-pop and the melodies crystal clear, while the backing vocals courtesy of Jen Wood and Jenny Lewis are spartan and pretty. The songs stick in your head for days at a time. Forget the tags that have been thrown up against this music--Poptronica? New new new order? Please just enjoy this album. It just might be a classic--but of what exactly, we're not quite sure. --Mike McGonigal
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