It Feels So Good When I Stop

Joe Pernice | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 4, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ashmont Records
• ASIN: B002EIJ8PO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,367 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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It Feels So Good When I Stop is a companion piece to Joe Pernice s debut novel It Feels So Good When I Stop. The book will be published August 6 by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin. According to Pernice, ''Though the book is not explicitly about music, there are quite a few cover and fictional songs mentioned, so I thought it would be a cool idea for me to record some of those songs and release them, as a soundtrack album to the novel.''

The album is performed by Joe Pernice, Peyton Pinkerton, Mike Belitsky, Bob Pernice, with James Walbourne and Ric Menck.

About the Book

In the vein of Nick Hornby s High Fidelity, Pernice s debut is a coming-of-age tale for the modern-day slacker, and an unlikely love story with a masculine perspective but with a mordant humor and unexpected warmth that will resonate with male and female readers alike. Set to a carefully curated soundtrack of Nick Drake, The Pogues, and Peter Frampton, It Feels So Good When I Stop is the story of a deeply flawed but irrepressibly likeable hero stumbling towards adulthood, learning about heartbreak and redemption, and struggling to love and commit on his own terms.

About Joe Pernice

Joe Pernice began his recording career in the mid-90 s with the Scud Mountain Boys, in Northampton, Massachusetts. They released two records before signing to Seattle s Sub Pop in 1996 and releasing Mas­sachusetts, along with The Early Year, a compilation of the two pre-Sub Pop recordings. In 1997, he disbanded the Scuds to form Pernice Broth­ers, whose debut Overcome By Happiness was released by Sub Pop, as was Chappaquiddick Skyline, more of a Joe Pernice side project in 2000. Big Tobacco, a Joe Pernice solo record was released in Europe in 2000 (and later in the US). Later that year, Joe left Sub Pop and he and his longtime manager Joyce Linehan established Ashmont Records, based in Boston, where they have released several Pernice Brothers records: The World Won t End (2001) , Yours, Mine and Ours (2003), Nobody s Watch­ing/Nobody s Listening live album and DVD (2004) Discover a Lovelier You (2005) and Live a Little (2006). Joe has also published a volume of poetry called Two Blind Pigeons and a novella for Continuum Books 33 1/3 series, Meat is Murder. His music has appeared in the movies Fever Pitch and Slaughterhouse Rules, the television shows Six Feet Under and The Gilmore Girls, and in television ads for Sherwin-Williams, Sears and Southern Comfort. A Massachusetts native, he now lives in Toronto. A new album of Pernice originals is planned for early 2010.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best cover albums, August 12, 2009

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Subspace Biographies (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: It Feels So Good When I Stop (Novel Soundtrack) [Explicit] (MP3 Download)

You know how it is. One of your favorite musicians decides to do a cover album of some of their favorite songs and you get excited. This is going to be so cool! But so many times you are disappointed at the results. Either the song selection was weak or they hewed too close to the source song or went way too far wacky and the song was unrecognizable.

This album does not disappoint. He introduced me to songs I had not heard before which is the second job of a good cover album. first to entertain; second, to inform. Joe Pernice does an excellent version of "Chevy Van", a song I never really cared for before. I think that is the highest complement you can give a cover album is to say they changed how you feel about a particular song.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Covers from a Songwriter's Songwriter, August 12, 2009

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This review is from: It Feels So Good When I Stop (Audio CD)

Albums of cover songs are usually a tricky proposition, especially coming from an artist who is himself a peerless pop songwriter. Complicating things further, this also serves as the "soundtrack" to a novel. That said, this is a light, easy listen, even if it isn't the traffic-halting event that a new Pernice Brothers album would be. Standouts include the white-boy soul of "I'm Your Puppet," the Tom T. Hall old-school country chestnut "That's How I Got to Memphis" and the Dream Syndicate's crunchy jangle-rock classic "Tell Me When It's Over," none of which necessarily re-invent the originals, but are captured in a spirit of fun and reverence. Only the Mary Poppins tune feels like a throwaway, and though the instrumental "Black Smoke (No Pope)" (credited to the fictional band, The Young Accuser, from the novel) doesn't really go anywhere (neither did the fictional band), that's sort of the point, when you take the album's purpose as soundtrack into account. The songs chosen reveal the inspiration for Pernice's own muse, ranging from 1970's AM schmaltz through post-punk jangle to countrypolitan song-stories, and certainly underscore his ability to recognize an ace tune when he hears one.