Maroon [Import]

Webb Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 5, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B00004Y58Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,985 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

1. The Liars Club 3:51 2. I Cant Believe You're Gone 3:51 3. All The Cocaine In The World 1:39 4. Summer People 4:02 5. Low Grade Fever 3:33 6. Marooned 3:36 7. Intermission 1:17 8. Flourescent Lights 3:20 9. In A Fashion 3:40 10. Sudd

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cinematic!, September 18, 2000

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B.A.S. (watford, herts United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maroon (Audio CD)

The CD artwork on Maroon is some of the best I've seen for ages. It's reminiscent of an old film poster - in maroon, of course - with voluptuous ladies, bats, all sorts of hedonistic shennanigans and the Webb Brothers, torches in hand, trying to navigate their way through this 'pergatory', as they describe it on one track. And that's what the concept is, the shallowness and self defeating nature of life as one endless party. The album starts off with the Liars Club meeting up to get blitzed, in a state of self denial that they aren't 21 anymore and are really too old for this kind of thing. The instrumentation is both exotic and sparse, with great sweeping introductory strings giving way to the classic Webb guitar and piano accompaniement, and this combination of the grand with the austere works very effectively throughout the album. However, the broodingly dramatic atmoshere of the album and its storyline - boy goes out, boy gets stoned, boy meets girl, girl gets stoned and dies - is almost lost on the one poor track, In A Fashion, which is reminiscent of McCartney at his most strummy-boppy-singy. Still the star that was lost for that minor inconvenience is acquired back with the artwork.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best album you'll hear this year. Buy it now!, July 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Maroon (Audio CD)

This is one of the best albums I have ever heard. You will definitely not be disappointed. Your friends will consider you a genius once you turn them onto The Webb Brothers.

Someone thought I was listening to Pink Floyd when I had it in the car (obviously not a genius himself). It's no Pink Floyd, but it is definitely something that you will want to hear for a very long time. This album will appeal to all type of people, and you will find yourself humming the tunes all the time. Wait until you hear "Low Grade Fever," "Marooned," and a great version of Hushdrops' "Summer People."

A must have for any collection. Buy several copies--give them to friends.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Caught in a Webb, October 9, 2001

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Eliot Wilder "eliotwilder.com" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maroon (Audio CD)

On "Maroon," Christiaan and Justin Webb blow up the mini multiplex vistas of their debut, Beyond the Biosphere, into a wide-screen panorama, fleshing out their tunes with blinding technicolor details. Much like the epic sweep of classic songs like "MacArthur Park" - written by none other than their famous father, songwriter Jimmy Webb - "Maroon" takes unexpected turns and twists that are as fun as they are jarring. With its sleigh bells, careering violins and ringing pianos, the album could overload on its own orchestral sugar high, but instead is underpinned with bleak moods and dizzying aural sensations that make for an extremely uneasy listening experience. With its extravagant shades of dark and light and its odd combination of surreal kitsch and lyrical brutalism, "Maroon" tills a sonic landscape that's truly unique. Call it muzak noir.