I Never Even Asked for Light

Lullaby For The Working Class | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 21, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bar/None Records
• ASIN: B0000048F9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #383,117 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Show Me How the Robots Dance

2. Irish Wake

3. Jester's Siren

4. Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H.)

5. In Honor of My Stumbling

6. This Is as Close as We Get

7. The Sunset & The Electric Bill

8. Bread Crumbs

9. Descent

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, deeply intelligent album, July 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: I Never Even Asked for Light (Audio CD)

I LOVED Lullaby's previous release, Blanket Warm, and at first I couldn't grasp "I Never Even Asked For Light." Now, however, both are equally amazing. "Light" has a more aggressive edge, but the same dark poetry and complex accoustic instrumentation. "Hypnotist" contains my favorite Lullaby lyric: "I dreamt I was a firefighter, but the flames were never real. I dreamt I was an engineer, and I designed it dear, the world's perfect treadmill. I dreamt I was a hypnotist, a farmer and an architect, a poet and an acrobat. I dreamt the flames were real." Original and beautiful, as is the whole album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Before Connor Orbest and alongside Palace, May 25, 2003

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Jason Bunch "jdbunch" (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Never Even Asked for Light (Audio CD)

I got this album when it came out and I am still returning to it, especially late at night after a few too many beers. This is chamber pop at it's most inventive and it set the stage for what was to come with Saddle Creek's releases. I still think that when this band hit their highs that no one else could or has followed them...and this album is full their highs. Highly intellegent lyrics with a deeply emotional delivery fronts a backing band of glockenspiels, banjos, cellos, guitars, organs, drums and dulcimers. Sort of "post-alt.country rock" if you had to try and fit this band into one of the many pathetic genres that critics self-invent. But the beauty of this album, and it is beautiful, is that it owes as much to Talk Talk as it does to Uncle Tupelo...and sounds totally unlike either. This is an original work that is not only great in and of itself, but is important in setting the stage for what was to come out of Omaha and a little label called Saddle Creek.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff- sleepy sleepy, October 3, 2005

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Francis M. Anderson "Frank Anderson" (Greenville SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Never Even Asked for Light (Audio CD)

Acoustic guitar driven melodic rock is the style on this Lullaby cd.
The sounds will wash over you. The album can be rough in some spots, mostly in some semi sour notes hit by the singer, this is not near enough to truly stand out as a problem with the album. The introspective lyrics for some reason make these sour notes turn the album even more real to me for some reason. Additional accompnyment by a plethora of instuments rounds out the sound to make this a very full sounding album.
I came to this band by way of watching the Spend An Evening With Saddle Creek. I am pretty sure the main singer is the leader of the Saddle Creek band Mayday. I will definately be checking them out.
I like the Lullaby cd, and would suggest it to anyone. If you are looking for something similar, try the Good Life.
Me Likey!