A Piece Of What You Need

Teddy Thompson | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Label: Verve Forecast
• Copyright: (C) 2008 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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• Total Length: 45:52
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• ASIN: B001AT4GH8
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,689 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Happy Or Something, June 27, 2008

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Lee Armstrong (Winterville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Piece of What You Need (Audio CD)

Teddy Thompson's new set "A Piece of What You Need" starts out with one of the best one-two-three song selections. The opener "The Things I Do" is a hook-laden track with an addictive melody, Thompson's gorgeous and expressive voice, and his trademark wit in the lyric, "It's getting harder & harder to live with myself, the things I do." It's Teddy's trick that feeling bad can sound this good. "What's This?!!" arrives with punch, a ripping stutter-style guitar lead, and Teddy's tremendous vocals, "Oh sh*t, Oh sh*t, am I happy or something? Is it you? Is it me? Is it us? Is it we?" It's another totally addictive track. "In My Arms" is also a beautiful track with the pace mellowed & Thompson's vocals silky and caressing. "Can't Sing Straight" & "Jonathan's Book" are also favorites of mine. Teddy Thompson continues to deliver excellent music on a CD that is sure to hit many "best of 2008" lists. Enjoy!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TRM, June 21, 2008

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T. R. Mielke (Canton,MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Piece of What You Need (Audio CD)

This is a great album. Teddy has become his own artist with own unique singing style that is extremely open and expansive. It appears his singing of country classics from his last album has allowed him to experiment with his voice this time that is so rich and creative that it appears at times to be effortless. I believe that natural would best describe it. The arrangements are varied and colorful with guitars, pianos, horns and strings flowing in and out of all the songs that expands and never distracts from any of the songs. This album also sounds great through headphones if you are a audio freak like I am. Teddy has done both of his parents proud by just being himself and letting his muse take him on a journey that is never limited by his lack of imagination either though the quality of his song writing or the eloquent way he sings them. I believe he now has one up on his friend Rufus Wainwright and has become the better songwriter and arranger of the two.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inner war and PIECE, June 26, 2008

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John Buckingham "Smokey Raku-Potts" (Worcester, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Piece of What You Need (Audio CD)

As other reviewers have noted, Teddy Thompson's latest effort A PIECE OF WHAT YOU NEED finds the Brit-born/NY based singer-songwriter craftily playing every side of his lonely, self-loathing persona, and all with the lacerating wit in lyrics for which the younger Thompson is justly celebrated. The horror of actually finding happiness that opens the insanely catchy "What's This?!!" eventually gives way, many songs later, to the mordantly funny lament of "Turning the Gun on Myself", with several interesting and well-observed stops in between. Thompson's incredible voice remains one of the finest in contemporary music and though PIECE doesn't showcase it as well as his previous release, 2007's now classic UP FRONT AND DOWN LOW - mostly covers of C&W chestnuts with one tremendous original - PIECE'S rich, multilayered production still makes a rich setting for Thompson's vocals. ("Jonathan's Book", with a cinematic opening, finds Thompson flirting with a Beatles vibe, to good effect.) The CD package gets a shwack for not including any notes or credits - listeners have to go to Thompson's Web site for those - and for burying one of the albums best tracks ("Price of Love") many, many minutes after the last listed one, the title tune. Anyone who left before the very end of IRON MAN will know what I mean, so have patience. These are minor quibbles compared to the true work of art that Thompson's achieved here. If you don't have any of his CDs, start here. The title really does say it all.