Emoticons [Import]

Ben and Jason, ??, Ben & Jason | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Japan
• ASIN: B000034CJP
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,707,025 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Widow's Walk

2. Air Guitar

3. Smiling Shy

4. Cartoon Heart

5. Say Come

6. What I Meant to Say

7. Emoticons

8. Trapped Behind the Glass

9. Halfway Up a Tree

10. Romeo and Juliet Are Drowning

11. Dear Sally

12. I'll Always Want You

13. Play for Today

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Beautiful, January 12, 2001

By 

David Kaslauskas (Hingham, Ma. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emoticons (Audio CD)

This album was recommended to me from Amazon and I decided to take a chance. I absolutely love this album!.....Beautiful arrangements combined with equally beautiful vocals, as well as, thoughtful lyrics. The disc has not left my player since it's purchase...It has led me to purchase everything that is Ben and Jason! and each title reassures me of their incredible talents. Please support this band, they truly deserve it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Acoustic Songsmithery Lives!, April 26, 2000

By 

J. Chaisson "joncwriter" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emoticons (Audio CD)

Ah, but this is a beautiful album. Ben and Jason, two inconspicuous geniuses in the world of quiet acoustic rock, put out a thought-provoking, intelligent second LP (or first, depending on how you view their debut ep, Hello). It pulls you right in with the slight opening crash of "Widow's Walk", then to the great second single "Air Guitar". Elsewhere on the album are more wonderful, sometimes skewed love songs such as "Say Come" (check out the great remix of this on their "Romeo and Juliet are Drowning" single) and "Emoticons."

Please. Buy this. You won't be sorry. And if you like this, get the singles--the unavailable b-sides (so to speak) are equally as wonderful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most Beautiful Album Ever!!, August 24, 2001

By 

Maria~Rosa (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emoticons (Audio CD)

I got this album through an old internet friend who sent me just a 2 minute sample of one of their song. The sample was distorted but the music still had its rhythm and it got me singing it always all the time, unique chorus. From that moment on I bought Hello their first album and then went on to buy Emoticons. Emoticons left me speechless, no breathless with the lovely compositions and soothing vocals. The first song starts out with the most beautiful string arrangements I have ever heard and goes so wonderfully well with the vocals, ending in such an intruiguing way, rendering one to think of an amusement park or a circus of instruments. From then on the album just gets better with haunting lyrics and sweet to the air musical arrangements. Each song has its own style and a unique sound to it. Song #12 I will always want you, has to be the most poetic sounding song ever made, from the chorus to the lovely piano sequences involved. It led me to picture it to a romantic movie soundtrack but yet again its so beautiful for any picture or anything its more of a mental poetic creation and its made to be heard in a soundtrack to one's life. I cannot comment more on this cd because no words could do justice to it, none. Put this cd on your player folks and let the music take you away to many many poetic dreams. The most beautiful album ever created folks!!No single tear of joy can match this album its too beautiful for anything! Ben and Jason are pure genuises!