Songs For A Blue Guitar
Product ID: 4776820
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desertcart.com At first glance, Songs for a Blue Guitar appears much like previous Red House Painters albums, meandering and largely self-indulgent. Eight of the album's 11 songs stray over the five-minute mark (with two more than twice that length), and there are the covers of Yes's "Long Distance Runaround," Ric Ocasek's "All Mixed Up," and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs." Kozelek may have strange taste when it comes to picking out covers ("Silly Love Songs"?), but on this album he's also showing a commitment and sense of deliberate purpose that I've not heard from him before. Even in the album's centerpiece, the more than 12-minute long "Make Like Paper" that contains a guitar solo that supposedly is responsible for 4AD dropping them, there's not a false move. The song unfolds gently, revealing more facets of itself than the spare instrumentation would seem to allow. The guitar's absolutely delicious Neil Young/Robert Quine/Richard Lloyd crunch doesn't hurt, either. That crunch shows up again in "Long Distance Runaround" and "Silly Love Songs," but the rest of the album is built around a gently arresting acoustic guitar that mirrors the soft-voiced Kozelek. --Randy Silver Review: Fantastic record and amazed to grab a New Old Stock copy - Seems that some new, old stock has hit the marketplace and I couldn’t be happier! This album has been on my waitlist for quite a while but wasn’t ready to drop almost $100 on Discogs for a used/vintage copy. Just received this today and it was sealed as new and in perfect condition. Songs are beautiful and a welcome evolution of the RHP sound from their first couple albums. Pick this up if you’ve been holding out and if you can get it for under $50, it’s an even better deal. Review: Red House Painters still have something to say! - This music reminds me of being in a San Francisco coffee shop having a coffee on a Saturday morning, and listening to the words and guitars of a group with something to say.
| ASIN | B000001EJ4 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #39,555 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl ) #63 in Dream Pop #826 in Indie Rock #937 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (108) |
| Date First Available | December 11, 2006 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Label | Supreme Records / Island Independent |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Supreme Records / Island Independent |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Original Release Date | 1996 |
| Product Dimensions | 4.88 x 5.55 x 0.47 inches; 2.89 ounces |
B**S
Fantastic record and amazed to grab a New Old Stock copy
Seems that some new, old stock has hit the marketplace and I couldn’t be happier! This album has been on my waitlist for quite a while but wasn’t ready to drop almost $100 on Discogs for a used/vintage copy. Just received this today and it was sealed as new and in perfect condition. Songs are beautiful and a welcome evolution of the RHP sound from their first couple albums. Pick this up if you’ve been holding out and if you can get it for under $50, it’s an even better deal.
E**D
Red House Painters still have something to say!
This music reminds me of being in a San Francisco coffee shop having a coffee on a Saturday morning, and listening to the words and guitars of a group with something to say.
L**M
Absolutely love this LP
Every song on LP is a classic — sooooo happy to finally own this.
D**R
Searching for that moment
The 2 best songs here are the title track and one called "Another Song for a Blue Guitar". Best listened to as a whole, late at night perhaps, late in the year. Still somehow less than the work of Sun Kil Moon on Ghosts of the Great Highway.
I**S
A true indie folk classic
Classic album of melancholic folk indie with the smooth voice of Kozelek to carry you through
D**L
It was ok if not spotty
I bought this for a verison of a song that I thought was on this CD. It wasn't. My error
P**R
This is a beautiful album with many really well done covers.
This is a beautiful album with many really well done covers. I have listened to it hundreds of times and love it each time.
M**B
Five Stars
best red house painters album ever. LP arrived in good condition.
C**X
This album really is a Mark Kozelek solo album and because of legal complications the album can be quite hard to get hold of. Hence why the album is only available from third part sellers. It is worth worth getting not just because it is a great album but it must be one of the best mastered albums I have heard.
P**O
Red House Painters evolved into Sun Kil Moon, another vehicle for Mark Kozelek`s unique and distinctive approach to music. Like most RHP disc`s there is a mixture of originals and covers - to me it`s the covers where Kozelek`s talent really shines. No artist can turn Silly Love Song, by Paul McCartney into a Neil Young inspired 10 minute distorted dirge the way he does. Or take The Cars` All Mixed Up and turn it into a heavenly mix of Leonard Cohen meets Sarah Mclaughlin by way of David Crosby and turn a pop song into ethereal folk music. Songs for a Blue Guitar is credited as RHP but was apparently a solo Kozelek project - RHP would release one more record, Old Ramone, and then dissolve.....this is a must for any slowcore/sadcore music fan
虹**色
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D**Z
Für mich ein tolles Album, mehr gibt es dazu nicht zu sagen.
S**O
Tout commence avec cet album La renaissance, le goût des autres, la mélancolie comme guide salvateur !
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