| Banhart, Devendra / Oh Me Oh My... |
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| Album: | Oh Me Oh My... | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Banhart, Devendra | Added: | Jan 2003 | |
| Label: | Young God Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-01-27 | Pull Date: | 2003-03-31 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 23 | Mar 2 | Feb 23 | Feb 16 | Feb 9 | Feb 2 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 19, 2009: | The Twilight Zone The Charles C. Leary | 4. | Nov 23, 2004: | Lick My Moody Guitar Show The Charles C. Leary | |
| 2. | Apr 13, 2006: | knifefishhappyhour Animals... | 5. | Oct 26, 2004: | All This - And Mor! Pumpkin Seeds | |
| 3. | Apr 08, 2005: | The Fifth Column: Music for the Discerning Proletariat Tick Eats the Olives... | 6. | Sep 06, 2004: | Short Song Marathon - Part 3 Tick Eats the Olives... |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2003-01-22 | ||
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Low-fi folky weirdness from Michael Gira’s (Swans) Young God label. Even the cover artwork looks Swans (was indeed designed by Gira) and the music sure feels that way, like lo fi ghetto blaster late night rough ideas, drafts for Swans songs recorded with an acoustic guit and singing. Sounds of birds and cars etc imply it was recorded during the day out in a park. Vocals are double upped, female, Jarboe-soul-swanky-swampy-smarmy-gospel at times with some strange Diamanda Galas freakout moments. Simple guitar and that’s about it. I’m one of the biggest Swans fans in the world but I find some of this pretentious. Regardless of how I feel, its still cool and twisted and since most of the songs clock in under 2 minutes, merciful. Left me realizing how incredible Faun Fables is. 1) brief, w/ handclap 2) very swans’ish in the repetitive demonic melody 3) folky familiar feel 4) kinda psychotic feel 5) waltz, mellow, strange 6) strange sounds followed by ditty 7) mellow with almost a real chorus about Michigan 8) folky with some overdriven yells and lots of off-tune vocs 9) mellow, almost songlike 10) mellow song 11) sorta bluesy, some vague percussion 12) brief, strange vocs 13) almost melodic 14) swampier, smarmy 15) almost pleasant folk feel, bordering on “normal”, quite nice, ends with strange radio like sample 16) spooky swans feel w/ jarboe/galas voc twang 17) instrumental 18) childlike w/ la la’s 19) gospel feel w/ vocs and handclaps only 20) strange tape manip intro, then simple tune 21) slower 22) xmas theme, slow | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Tick Eats the Olives... | 12. | The Red Lagoon | |||
| 2. | Roots... | 13. | A Gentle Soul | |||
| 3. | The Charles C. Leary | 14. | Happy Happy Oh | |||
| 4. | Nice People... | 15. | Pumpkin Seeds | |||
| 5. | Animals... | 16. | The Thumbs... | |||
| 6. | Cosmos and Demos | 17. | Legless Love | |||
| 7. | Michigan State | 18. | Marigold | |||
| 8. | Lend Me Your Teeth | 19. | Make It Easier | |||
| 9. | Hey Miss Cane | 20. | Ones | |||
| 10. | Soon Is Good | 21. | Little Monkey | |||
| 11. | Tell Me Something | 22. | The Spirit Is Near |