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Music CD - FINAL FANTASY: HAS A GOOD HOME
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Music CD: HAS A GOOD HOME
Artist: FINAL FANTASY
List Price: $15.98
Our Price: $12.18
Your Save: $ 3.80 ( 24% )
Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
Manufacturer: Tomlab
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Tracks:
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1. None of You Will Ever See a Penny
2. This Is the Dream of Win & Regine
3. Your Light Is Spent
4. Furniture
5. C N Tower Belongs to the Dead
6. Took You Two Years to Win My Heart
7. Chronicles of Sarnia
8. Andventure. Exe
9. Library
10. That's When the Audience Died
11. Learn to Keep Your Mouth Shut, Owen Pallett
12. Arrow I the Side of Final Fantasy
13. Please Please Please
14. Better Than Worse
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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0789397785416
Label: Tomlab
Manufacturer: Tomlab
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Tomlab
Release Date: 2005-06-06
Studio: Tomlab
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great First Album
Comment: I bought this for my friend but I really want a copy. I had first heard his album He Poos Clouds. This one, however, I'd love to have the chance to obsess over.
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Summary: Toronto Strings
Comment: You can totally hear Toronto in Owen Pallet's strings. No wonder why Pallet has received most of the credits for Final Fantasy, his melodies are incredibly awsome. I must highlight the fact this is not an easy album, even though the melodies are friendly, it took me about four times listening to it to really get it. But after that, the results are great. "Has A Good Home" is a mix of the Indie Canadian Scene with some classic structures and instrumentation. Opening with "No one of you will ever see a penny" followed by "This is the dream of Win and Regine" is just like the opening of a movie or a play, those two tracks set the path for what's coming next. And if lyrics like "Montreal might eat it's young, but Montreal won't break us down" doesn't put you in the right Canadian mood, when you arrive to "The CN tower belongs the the dead" you are listening to Canada made into music. The whole album is really worthy, buy it, you won't regret it!.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Something different & good.
Comment: I love this album. It reminds me of Rasputina, but without the pretense. There's a lot of sound to explore here. The melody creation and arrangement is fabulous and its odd enough to keep a weirdo like me interested.
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Summary: I wish for you
Comment: Final Fantasy is one of those bands that require your heart and brain to be in it, not just your ears.
Owen Pallet's one-man band is an exquisite example of intelligent music -- classical violins playing experimental indiepop. And his debut album "Has A Good Home" is like a fragile glass ornament spun out of music, with wildly varying styles and sensitive, bittersweet lyrics.
It opens with a smooth string introduction, joined in by Pallett's melancholy vocals. He sings of a dying rich man, who vows that "None of you will ever see a penny/Of my ill-begotten wealth." But it isn't malicious -- he wishes "a lifetime of labour" on his children, because "hard days make peaceful nights."
You'd think all the songs would be like that. But it's wrong. With the very next song (a tribute to Arcade Fire's Win and Regina), he weaves electronic edges to his quirky violin plucking.
And in the songs that follow, Pallett tries out a variety of styles. Each one has the violin winding through each one like a silken cord, no matter how odd the style is -- string folk, tight indiepop, classical glitchpop, angelic ballads, dancey pop, medieval-sounding songs, and ominous little ditties that shiver through to the end.
But the album reaches its peak with "Chronicles of Sarnia," a shimmering ballad with heartbreaking lyrics: "I had to hide myself in a book/To keep your love away.... Midwinter Banquet, he shook his head/"Sadly, no,/I can reverse the river's flow,/but I can never send you home."
A lot of indie bands include strings in their music, usually woven in with other instruments, but very few have the guts to feature an indiepop song that is backed almost entirely by violin. So "Has a Good Home" ends up sounding wholly unique, polished and accomplished.
And the classically-trained Pallett knows how to use his violin: it shivers, shimmers, wobbles, twangs, swoops and swells, and sweeps out the music into bittersweet grandeur. In fact, his quiet instrumentation would be glorious even if it weren't backed by little horns and weavings of synth. Those are just the icing on the proverbial cake.
The finishing touch is Pallett himself -- his smooth, mournful voice croons through the songs almost conversationally. And his songs have the inscrutable quality of poetry -- he tackles adventure-lust, Canada, Yukio Mishima, and deep heartbreak: "Took you two years to win my heart/then two words to break it/every song from a heart this mangled/will be draped in strings, strings, strings."
"Has A Good Home" is an exquisite debut album, and only served as the warm-up to Final Fantasy's even better second album. Deserves to be a classic.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not for everyone, but for the few - Amazing
Comment: Truly, a very select audience can appreciate the genius of Owen Pallet's Final Fantasy. To be honest, I had never heard of him or his group when I went to see the Arcade Fire in concert about a year ago (he opened for them, solo act). His performance was impressive to say the least. Soon after, I found myself exploring his work. "Has A Good Home" is no easy listen. You will never find a track on the Billboard top 40 or whatever. Owen's radiounfriendly music is a true treat to those who appreciate complex arrangements hidden in deceitfully simple melodies. If you like indie music, if you like art music, this is my Best Album of the Year for 2005. I couldn't recommend higher. Give it a few spins, hate it after one listen, love it by the fifth go round.
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