I Know About You [Vinyl]

Ida | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (November 18, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Polyvinyl Records
• ASIN: B001FT9VTQ
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #909,912 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Little Things

2. Back Burner

3. Tellings

4. Thank You

5. Downtown

6. Treasure Chest

7. Requator

8. When I Was Now

9. August Again

10. Plans

11. 95 North

12. Goodnight

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars simple and perfect, May 4, 2001

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Jonathan J. Casey (the twin cities) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Know About You (Audio CD)

Ida is one of my favorite live bands, and even though I miss Dan's brother on drums, the new chamber ensemble sound fits them very well. "I Know About You" was recorded before Miggy left and Karla joined. It is the first Ida album I bought, and it's still my favorite.

"Little Things" starts with an incredibly simple yet perfect guitar line, and as with most Ida songs, builds and builds until your heart feels like it's going to burst. Dan and Liz's voices are perfect, alone or in harmony, and I can't imagine living without them (I mean that as the highest possible compliment, rather than in a creepy stalker sense).

"Back Burner" is another wonderful song, with the lyric "like Caliban, you've seen it all without language to use" making a nice arc between Ida and one of my great literature loves, "The Tempest." "Tellings" is a gorgeous, more uptempo song, and "Thank You" pretty much drags out all the pain (e.g. "thank you for giving me nothing"). There is a different version of this available on a 7", without the strings and acoustic guitar.

"When I Was Now" is as close to traditional folk as they get on this album, but Ida maintains a very unique sound thoroughout...balancing bleak raw emotion with moments of exquisite beauty. This is the record that comes to mind when asking Nick Hornby's question "do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?" It isn't all a downer, though. It is often quite the opposite.

If you like Ida, I'd urge you to seek out the song "Ain't No Lie" that was released as a His Name Is Alive song on the 4AD "Anakin" compilation - with Dan and Liz on vocals and (what I assume is) a Warn DeFever acoustic guitar backing. The split 7" they did with Secret Stars also has one of my favorite songs by Ida. Even though that's a song that brought me to tears the first time I heard it (no mean feat, that) the beauty of Ida lies in the contrast between these sublime songs of love and loss followed by wacky Prince covers. How often can you find a combination that perfect? Look for the latter on an Insound Tour Support CD and the "Poor Dumb Bird" 7".

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars if this doesn't change you, nothing will, July 7, 2000

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brandon trammell (flint, michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Know About You (Audio CD)

this album is track after track of raw emotion. starting right off with "little things" you know what you're in for. the lyrics this band writes are precise emotion. they know exactly what they are saying. "it's like the words that we said rolled over to play dead. and we kissed them goodbye and never questioned why." i have seen this band three times live and have been brought to tears by their performance everytime. no band has ever done that to me other than this. i can not stress clearly enough how much this record means to me, and if you have any interest in this type of music at all, you would do yourself much much good to buy this record.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a life-altering journey, October 27, 1999

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Adrienne (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Know About You (Audio CD)

i live in nyc and got to see ida play a lot of little shows... the two are romantically involved and that really makes their chemistry in this extremely well-composed album something akin to godliness. no person who likes emo/indie/folk should live without this.