Music CD - Brendan Benson: The Alternative to Love

	Music CD: The Alternative to Love Artist: Brendan Benson List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $8.99 Your Save: $ 4.99 ( 36% ) Availability: Manufacturer: V2 North America
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Tracks: 1. Spit It Out 2. Cold Hands (Warm Heart) 3. Feel Like Myself 4. Alternative To Love 5. The Pledge 6. Them And Me 7. Biggest Fan 8. Flesh And Bone 9. Get It Together 10. Gold Into Straw 11. What I'm Looking For 12. Between Us
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0638812723826 Label: V2 North America Manufacturer: V2 North America Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: V2 North America Release Date: 2005-03-22 Studio: V2 North America
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Instant winner! Comment: This disc came up in the best of 2006. Certainly it is in my top five. Always wanted to have a listen but had no access to the net. This album features a smooth, seamless and loveable singer songwriter in the peak of his talents. it really is a four and a half star CD and will be worn paper thin before too long! Customer Rating: Summary: FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comment: This CD is one of the few that my husband and I both love. Highly recommended! Customer Rating: Summary: Way Overrated Comment: This stuff isn't that good. There are a couple Cars-eque rockers that are cool but other than that I don't see what the big fuss is about? At the end of the day Benson's work is all mediocre. This is another case of "famous friends" association and hype. Save your money and pick up some classic power pop. Customer Rating: Summary: MEGA POP INDIE MUSIC IS THE NEW HARDCORE Comment: Oh, how I love Brendan Benson. His album Lapalco will always be my favorite, but this is probably his best. He has taken his obsession with 60's pop, a John Lennon complex, and a corky voice, and created a sound that the phrase "powerpop" doesn't even begin to describe. The vocals on this album match Pet Sounds (...almost)! I want to isolate tracks, but it's almost impossible. Everything is OBNOXIOUSLY catchy and makes me want to sit down and write a great pop song. Customer Rating: Summary: Definately An Alternative... Comment: The main reason i bought this cd was because i had read that it was co-produced by Jack White of the White Stripes, and that Benson would soon be starting a side-band with White. Also because Benson had fans of the likes of Beck and Jack White. I was shocked to find out that Jack had nothing to do with this cd, but pleases altogether with what i was listening to. 'Spit It Out' is definately the catchiest song but seems unlike anything else on the album. Other excellent accoustic offerings include 'Feel Like Myself' and the title track 'The Alternative To Love'. This cd does move into territory of power-pop status and for this reason is much more listenable. The lyrics are good, and clever on certain songs, and the instrumentation compliments the overall effect of the cd. Give it a go, you'll enjoy it. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Brendan Benson is the kind of guy who still sits by the AM radio late at night, spinning the tuning dial from one end to the other in a hopeless search for the perfect pop song. Little does he know he's considerably helped his own plight by making an album full of them. Unlucky in both love and money, the Detroit singer-songwriter has plenty to chew on with his third disc. Using wistful bubblegum melodies and crisp '60s harmonies, in tunes like "Feel Like Myself" and "Cold Hands (Warm Heart)" he lashes out at former lovers and A&R men with equal venom. "I always wind up screwed without a kiss," he hisses on the Phil Spector inspired "The Pledge." But, in the end the man who counts Jack White and Beck as devoted fans, knows impending success is the best payback. "Maybe I've been caught red-handed, making off like a lucky bandit/ This wasn't how I planned it," he gloats on the title track. It's really hard to argue. --Aidin Vaziri