Ask Me Tomorrow [Original recording reissued]

Mojave 3 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: 4ad / Ada
• ASIN: B00000IP5F
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,642 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love Songs on the Radio

2. Sarah

3. Tomorrow's Taken

4. Candle Song 3

5. You're Beautiful

6. Where Is the Love

7. After All

8. Pictures

9. Mercy

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, February 4, 2002

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Jonathan Schaper (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ask Me Tomorrow (Audio CD)

This is Mojave 3's first album, or more accurately the first album from Neil Halstead and company since they recorded Pygmalion under the name Slowdive. As such, the songs on this album provide an interesting transition between their Slowdive work and their later Mojave 3 work. The songs are kind of folksy, and there is an emphasis on accoustic instruments, but there is still some of the old ethereal droning sounds left over from their Slowdive wall-of-sound days.

The songs themselves are all beautiful, relaxing, bittersweet masterpieces with sugary vocals and poetic lyrics. Some clear (or apparent) influences on this album include Leonard Cohen and the Cowboy Junkies. In fact, many of the songs sound like a duet between Cohen and Margo Timmins. However, the songs are still clearly Halstead's. This album is easily as strong as Excuses for Travellers although it has a more overall melancholy tone to it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Folky Slowdive, November 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Ask Me Tomorrow (Audio CD)

I've been listening to the album going home from work, looking out the window at the gauze of night, the little lights of suburbia twinkling; this album is the perfect soundtrack for that experience. Alone on a train at night, going home. I don't like folk music, yet I'm drawn to this music very much. It's as if you took the rockiness out of Slowdive, and distilled the sweetness. (Note to all Slowdive fans: you must must must check this out!)

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'll try my best to describe how beautiful this album is., June 22, 2003

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Won Lee (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ask Me Tomorrow (Audio CD)

I'm not sure why certain groups tick with me- why I have a need to listen to the same Mojave 3 songs every night or in the morning. There have been a lot of musical geniuses, but not all of them can affect me like this. There's just something about Neil Halstead's songwriting that I can relate to. The guitar chords and progressions are relatively simple, but I can listen to Jimi Hendrix if I'm in the mood for that. Sometimes the sound becomes out of tune- I don't know if this is on purpose, for example, their second album is called Out of Tune. I'm sure it is in Blued Skied an' Cleared, from Slowdive's Pygmalion album. But it's the significance of his lyrics that hits me every time. He talks of people losing their way, always with the hope of them finding it again. I can't really think of any other artist that expresses these feelings quite in this way. In You're Beautiful, he sings about someone whose curtains are drawn, "you'll miss the light, your dawning spell will be broken, vanished days are hard to find, half life dreams will not be worth much." In Sarah, he sings "lonesome fools build lonesome walls to hide behind, cry behind, but I'm not one." In Tomorrow's Taken, he writes some of the most touching, personal lyrics about lost love that I've ever heard: "there's a full moon in the sky, it makes me glad that there's something pure in something that I had, something good is all I need to feel alive, a bottle of wine is all I have to hold." But my favorite song on this album is After All. Something as subtle as the slightest difference in delivery or inflection can make or break an ecstatic moment in a song, and to me that blissful moment comes when he sings the first chorus: "after all we're only looking for a light, just someone to hold us close." This is pure magic to me- the way the piano comes in, and the warmth of the cello as he sings this. I know the intention of the repeat chorus was to have a stronger delivery, as Rachel joins in this time, but it's just not the same. But, that's a personal preference. The other songs I love on this album are Pictures and Love Songs on the Radio. The guitar line on Love Songs is beautiful, especially when travelling slowly through curvy roads and trees (this album is not for loud freeways). This is my favorite Mojave 3 album, and like another reviewer said, it is a thing of magic. In an earlier Slowdive review, I said I wished that they hadn't morphed into this style of music, but I have to say that I probably like the Mojave 3 CDs more now.