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Track Listings
| 1. 40 Day Dream |
| 2. Janglin |
| 3. Up From Below |
| 4. Carries On |
| 5. Jade |
| 6. Home |
| 7. Desert Song |
| 8. Black Water |
| 9. Come In Please |
| 10. Simplest Love |
| 11. Kisses Over Babylon |
| 12. Brother |
| 13. Om Nashi Me |
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(2-LP set) Double vinyl/gatefold sleeve version of the immensely popular first album with full-color double sided insert! Includes their big hit, Home.
--This text refers to the
Vinyl
edition.
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250 of 259 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When it's time to name the Song of the Year, list-makers who don't put "Home" in their Top Five may come to feel...sheepish.
That's because there's a medicine show coming your way, guaranteed to cure whatever ails you. And the best service someone like me can provide is to prepare you for it. That's simple: you're going to dance. Pretty much from minute one. With whomever you're with. With strangers. And with a massive, how-did-this happen grin on your face.
Maybe you could know a bit more. Like: there is no "Edward Sharpe" in the 9-to12-member band that that calls itself Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Alex Ebert. the lead singer, looks like a guy who's just back from an ashram in India: underfed, long hair up in a bun, loose white shirt and pants, and bare feet. The female lead singer is so enthusiastic and awake --- a knockout in a thrift-shop dress, cardigan sweater and running shoes --- that you can't take your eyes off her. "A beautiful woman," Proust wrote, "is an invitation to a happiness she alone can fulfill." That is Jade Castrinos.
I love everything about this crew --- its large cast, its back story, and, most of all, its simple formula for happiness.
Okay, so the lyrics are mostly unabashed cornball ("Alabama, Arkansas/ I do love my Ma and Pa/ But not as much as I do love you"). I love how the song starts with a whistled echo of an Ennio Morricone theme from a Clint Eastwood western. I love the band and its soloists. Most of all, I'm a sucker for the refrain: "Home, let me come home/ Home is wherever I'm with you."
I have read the reviews, and it's the same deal in every city --- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are a traveling Woodstock, a throwback to the great lost days when bands thought of themselves as families and concerts were foaming whirlpools of joy.
Who are they? How did they happen? What do they mean?
Pass the peace pipe, kids, and I'll tell you a story that may make you --- depending on your age --- nostalgic or jealous.
We start with Alex Ebert, lead singer of a band called Ima Robot. He is cynical and negative, drunk on a daily basis. Desperate to be someone else, he breaks up the band, leaves his girlfriend for a small apartment with a blow-up mattress and joins Alcoholics Anonymous. A year later, Ebert has written many pages about Edward Sharpe, who was "sent down to Earth to heal and save mankind --- but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love."
Then, in downtown Los Angeles, he meets Jade Castrinos. They "hit it off and made a run for freedom." They start writing songs. They acquire a school bus and a band.
Want yet another reason to mourn Heath Ledger? He gives the band seed money to record a CD. Which they do --- using a 24-track tape machine from 1979 and bargain-basement reels of 2-inch tape." In July of 2009, the launch party for "Up from Below" was, unsurprisingly a benefit, with the money going to help the Gulu Widows Group of Uganda start a farm to sustain their community. And then they went on the road....
The young `uns and the folks who missed it first time around know hippies only as caricatures. Ebert's much closer to the real deal: "If we go to your town, I can imagine a time when we're rolling up to a parking lot and parking the bus and setting up the stage and the bleed from the audience to us, it's just not even there. It's like a river, you know?"
Audiences do know. And they jump in. Ebert: "The night I went into the crowd [at the Echo] and everybody was singing, you could almost feel their hearts."
That's pretty much any night for this band. Because what it offers is not being sold anywhere else --- a reversion to childhood. He's a child and she's a child, and they have a childish belief that their love will last forever, and the band feels the same way. That's a lot of permission on one stage.
Enduring love, a family of friends, a place that felt like home --- when I stumbled out of college into the Real World, I craved nothing more. Escapism? Maybe. But also a recognition that the Real World isn't the only one, that there's a door over here, and all you have to do is open it to feel the freedom you had as a kid.
See Edward Sharp, if you can. But for the sake of your soul, at least spend a buck on the MP3 download of "Home" and keep it near you. Because there's always a psychic emergency ahead. And if there's a better First Aid kit, I don't know it.
That's because there's a medicine show coming your way, guaranteed to cure whatever ails you. And the best service someone like me can provide is to prepare you for it. That's simple: you're going to dance. Pretty much from minute one. With whomever you're with. With strangers. And with a massive, how-did-this happen grin on your face.
Maybe you could know a bit more. Like: there is no "Edward Sharpe" in the 9-to12-member band that that calls itself Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Alex Ebert. the lead singer, looks like a guy who's just back from an ashram in India: underfed, long hair up in a bun, loose white shirt and pants, and bare feet. The female lead singer is so enthusiastic and awake --- a knockout in a thrift-shop dress, cardigan sweater and running shoes --- that you can't take your eyes off her. "A beautiful woman," Proust wrote, "is an invitation to a happiness she alone can fulfill." That is Jade Castrinos.
I love everything about this crew --- its large cast, its back story, and, most of all, its simple formula for happiness.
Okay, so the lyrics are mostly unabashed cornball ("Alabama, Arkansas/ I do love my Ma and Pa/ But not as much as I do love you"). I love how the song starts with a whistled echo of an Ennio Morricone theme from a Clint Eastwood western. I love the band and its soloists. Most of all, I'm a sucker for the refrain: "Home, let me come home/ Home is wherever I'm with you."
I have read the reviews, and it's the same deal in every city --- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are a traveling Woodstock, a throwback to the great lost days when bands thought of themselves as families and concerts were foaming whirlpools of joy.
Who are they? How did they happen? What do they mean?
Pass the peace pipe, kids, and I'll tell you a story that may make you --- depending on your age --- nostalgic or jealous.
We start with Alex Ebert, lead singer of a band called Ima Robot. He is cynical and negative, drunk on a daily basis. Desperate to be someone else, he breaks up the band, leaves his girlfriend for a small apartment with a blow-up mattress and joins Alcoholics Anonymous. A year later, Ebert has written many pages about Edward Sharpe, who was "sent down to Earth to heal and save mankind --- but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love."
Then, in downtown Los Angeles, he meets Jade Castrinos. They "hit it off and made a run for freedom." They start writing songs. They acquire a school bus and a band.
Want yet another reason to mourn Heath Ledger? He gives the band seed money to record a CD. Which they do --- using a 24-track tape machine from 1979 and bargain-basement reels of 2-inch tape." In July of 2009, the launch party for "Up from Below" was, unsurprisingly a benefit, with the money going to help the Gulu Widows Group of Uganda start a farm to sustain their community. And then they went on the road....
The young `uns and the folks who missed it first time around know hippies only as caricatures. Ebert's much closer to the real deal: "If we go to your town, I can imagine a time when we're rolling up to a parking lot and parking the bus and setting up the stage and the bleed from the audience to us, it's just not even there. It's like a river, you know?"
Audiences do know. And they jump in. Ebert: "The night I went into the crowd [at the Echo] and everybody was singing, you could almost feel their hearts."
That's pretty much any night for this band. Because what it offers is not being sold anywhere else --- a reversion to childhood. He's a child and she's a child, and they have a childish belief that their love will last forever, and the band feels the same way. That's a lot of permission on one stage.
Enduring love, a family of friends, a place that felt like home --- when I stumbled out of college into the Real World, I craved nothing more. Escapism? Maybe. But also a recognition that the Real World isn't the only one, that there's a door over here, and all you have to do is open it to feel the freedom you had as a kid.
See Edward Sharp, if you can. But for the sake of your soul, at least spend a buck on the MP3 download of "Home" and keep it near you. Because there's always a psychic emergency ahead. And if there's a better First Aid kit, I don't know it.
68 of 77 people found the following review helpful
By Banjolero
Format:MP3 Music
I heard "Home" on the radio yesterday and couldn't wipe the smile off my face. That track is an instant all time fave of mine, and the album is great.
40 of 46 people found the following review helpful
By D. Hoffman
Format:MP3 Music|Amazon Verified Purchase
How to describe this sound - rich, dynamic, eclectic: mix one part Arcade Fire, one part Johnny Cash (sprinkled with a pinch of June Carter), toss in some Sgt. Peppers era Beatles, oh and don't forget the AM GOLD. I am just in love with this album.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good stuff
I bought this because I will be seeing them with Mumford and I wanted to familiarize myself with their music prior to the show. Read more
Published 1 day ago by CLE+Schmit
5.0 out of 5 stars
Groviness to the max!
i gave it 5stars, it's a great album, great buy. press play, and spark one up! you will not be disapointed.
Published 6 days ago by Juan Daniel Ruiz
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good folky fun
How cute is this band? I love them and I think anyone can enjoy this. It's folky and energetic and it's just such a great, fun album.
Published 7 days ago by ashleydottir
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album
This is one of the greatest albums I have ever listened to. I can't believe it took me so long to finally order it.
Published 13 days ago by Nicholas Rubenstein
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worth the hype
I'm usually not one to buy an album when it gets overplayed, but these guys are great. Looking forward to hearing more from them in the future.
Published 20 days ago by slapsomeducttapeonit
2.0 out of 5 stars
To slow.
One or two of the songs are good but the rest all sounds the same and puts me to sleep.
Published 29 days ago by Bruce Prior
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love.
One of the best new bands out there. And I'm not one to love new bands, but you should give both their albums a try and I promise you won't regret it.
Published 1 month ago by Vee
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great tunes
A very funny happy album. I enjoy most of the songs. It's definitely a summer album, i mean, you feel in summer everytime youhear it because you can easily imagine yourself outside... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Abigail Coral Almeida
5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVE
CD. what more to say? I <3 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Item just as described & in original packaging.
Published 1 month ago by Luckiebear420
2.0 out of 5 stars
Boring and puts me in a bad mood. Ruins my day music
No doubt "Home" is a very catchy and genre stretching song. But having said that and after listening to the whole LP, it fizzles out. Read more
Published 1 month ago by zenarrrow
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