Merriment

Vic Chesnutt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2000)
• Original Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Backburner Records
• ASIN: B00004TH50
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,750 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #82 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Alternative Folk

Track Listings

1. Merriment

2. Fissle

3. Feather

4. Sunny Pasture

5. Preponderance

6. Haiku

7. Mighty Monkey

8. DNA

9. Deeper Currents

10. Merriment Reprise

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Naughty Vic, June 17, 2000

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Christian J. Burnham (Texas, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Merriment (Audio CD)

Of course, like all of Vic's CD's, Merriment requires 20+ listens to form even the most elementary of impressions. Shades of Abbey road esp. in 'Sunny Pasture'. Feather is moving and doesn't yield easily. Highlight is perhaps 'DNA', which provides an interesting take on the prison of genetic determinitism. In a sense this song returns to the themes earlier expressed in 'Naughty Fatalist' on the debauched 'Drunk' album. The moral- we need not accept the prescription... Perhaps not as successful as Salesman and Bernadette, but this does stand as another of Vic's interesting experiments in collaboration.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Vic's Worst, January 1, 2002

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Thomas Mathew "The Chemp" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Merriment (Audio CD)

I would consider myself a huge Vic chesnutt fan, and I must say that this album is a huge disappointment. Drenched in Daniel Lanois-esque reverb, the texture and production is blaaaaaa. But, the blame may not lay solely on Vic's shoulders. I think the Keneipp's are responsible for some of this mess.

The lyrics are muddled and embarrassing, the tunes are rambling (it pains me to write this, I love ALL of his previous albums).

The album is not without its highlights--"Fissle" is great, and "Sunny Pasture" and "Haiku" are classic Vic ...

... but avoid this album. If you are looking to discover the wonders of Mr. Chesnutt, check out "West of Rome" or "The Salesman and Bernadette." There is absolutely great great Vic Chesnutt out there. This just doesn't happen to be it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars relax, it's vic, July 30, 2000

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Adam J. Cummins (Buffalo, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Merriment (Audio CD)

'merriment' and 'mighty monkey' are instantly classic vic songs. those who already like vic will enjoy this album, it's one of the better ones, very subdued vic, very piano, very mellow, sometimes very sad. some great vic melodies herein, even some beatles sounding background harmonies. great stuff, the one disappointment being that it's ten songs and only thirty minutes long. other than that, it's near perfect vic. another golden chesnutt if i may say.