Realistic [Original recording reissued]

Ivy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Unfiltered
• ASIN: B0000AYLJ6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,045 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Before opening up their sound to horns and the occasional muted hip-hop beat, Ivy placed their delicacy in the context of flurries of strummed chords and other indie-rock verities. Dominique Durand's wistfulness is already at full power, though the Paris native's lyrics are less fully developed than they would be on Realistic's follow-up, Apartment Life. Often swirly enough ("Don't Believe a Word") to get the denizens of Dawson's Creek spinning on the dance floor, Realistic is also as emotionally compelling as the best pop has always been. --Rickey Wright

Product Description

Ivy shines again on this full-length of melodic pop, with "Get Enough" snagging the band's first Melody Maker Single Of The Week. Originally released, 1994. Re-issued by Unfiltered Records, 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the best debut of the 90's, June 6, 2000

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Pinner Blinn "skyisland" (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Realistic (Audio CD)

Gangly garage-rock guitar riffs, breathy French-accented female vocals, catchy tunes with insightful lyrics that capture the exuberance as well a good measure of the angst of youth. "In the Shadows", "No Guarantee", "Point of View", "Don't Believe a Word"--songs like these deserve better praise than I can possibly jot down here. You must listen for yourself! One of the top CD's of the 90's, I think. Their follow-up, "Apartment Life", though very good, falls into a safer pop groove. I'm looking for their third one to be the first great album of the new millenium.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The light at the end of the grunge tunnel, February 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Realistic (Audio CD)

Ivy is able to capture the essence of alternative college station rock without being tuneless, whiney, and just plain boring. It's a shame that this group doesn't get played on the radio, because if they did, they'd bump pseudo-intellectual indie garbage bands like Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20, and Third Eye Blind straight out of the charts and off radio stations' playlists. It's soft, gorgeous, and melodious without being wimpy. It's fantastic.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ivy Has Definitely Come Off to a Great Start with Realistic, June 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Realistic (Audio CD)

I got this album after hearing someone in a record store play some of it over the loudspeakers upon having asked what group I was hearing months later I bought it and was just as impressed as I expected to be. Ivy's music is quite catchy, melodic and relaxing! Unlike alot of the thoughtless trash they deluge you with with in much of today's music Ivy has a sound that is uncommonly beautiful and rare. In short if you love catchy, Melodic groups like for example "The Cardigans" like I do and hate heavy and gloomy music you'll definitely love Ivy.