Guest Room

Ivy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Minty Fresh
• ASIN: B00006IZOD
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,335 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #38 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative
  • #59 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo Fi

Track Listings

1. Let's Go to Bed

2. Kite

3. Say Goodbye

4. Streets of Your Town

5. I Don't Know Why I Love You

6. Only a Fool Would Say That

7. Digging Your Scene

8. L'Anamour

9. Be My Baby

10. I Guess I'm Just a Little Too Sensitive

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is an absolute dream!, October 8, 2002

By 

Alan Taylor "Music Addict, Pop Culture Guru, ... (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guest Room (Audio CD)

When a band I like puts puts out an album of covers of other artist's songs, I am always interested to hear it and then usually a bit disappointed. Usually, there are some great covers and a lot of filler that you never listen to. This is NOT the case here. The band picked some truly eclectic tracks to cover and they do so incredibly well. I was truly amazed that the band must like the same music I do, because, included are some of my all time favorite tracks from years gone by. "Kite" by Nick Heyward, "Streets of Your Town" by The Go-Betweens, "I Don't Know Why I Love You" by the House of Love, and "Let's Go to Bed" by The Cure all get incredibly brilliant treatment by this talented group of musicians. This is an album of sophisticated pop that will appeal to fans of the originals and to people that have never heard these songs alike. Ivy takes each song and makes it their own. An absolutely brilliant release. Buy it...you will not be disappointed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid!, December 22, 2002

By 

Thomas Horan (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guest Room (Audio CD)

This album of covers is an absolute joy, like ice cream on a summer day. The sound is spacey, melodic, and just a little twee, without leaving a saccharine taste in your mouth. Ivy do such a good job interpreting other people's songs that you'd think they were the band's own if you didn't know otherwise.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The pop of Apartment Life + the electronica of Long Distance, December 27, 2004

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JoAnn Whetsell (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guest Room (Audio CD)

Two years after its release, Guestroom is still one of my favorite albums. It's just a great blend of pop and ectronica and pure Ivy magic ranging from upbeat and bouncy to slow and dreamy and almost other-worldly. Maybe it's because I only know one of the originals, but these songs really feel like Ivy's. Half the songs come from previous, mostly rare now, recordings, and half are new. All are great.