Such Great Heights [Single, Import]

Iron & Wine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 7, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Sub Pop
• ASIN: B000GG4MXE
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #376,288 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Such Great Heights

2. Trapeze Swinger (live recording from Radio Vienna)

3. Naked as We Came (live recording from Radio Vienna)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music that trancends all rational expectations of what good music should be, July 16, 2007

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Benjamin Ballard (Charm City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Such Great Heights (Audio CD)

This single release of "Such Great Heights" is easily the best single that I can remember.

While Sam Beam's cover of the Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" got a bit overplayed and overexposed with its inclusion in Garden State and later in, of all places, M&M's commercials, it is still a masterful cover in every sense of the word. Not since Johnny Cash has an artist covered a song so well and effectively making it his own. Beam's delicate voice gently croons the opening line "I'm thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned" over a beautifully simplistic, stripped down version of a song that becomes such a far cry from the poppy, electronic original.

The radio sessions of The Trapeze Swinger and Naked As We Came are also pure aural pleasure. Beam bottles lightning twice with flawless live takes of these two beautiful songs that seem to fit thematically together. "Naked As We Came" speaks to a couple in which one dies prior to the other and "The Trapeze Swinger" is a bit of a self eulogy imploring the ones left behind to remember the good times spent together.

While somewhat pricey for three songs, it is worth every penny. Put on headphones, shut your eyes and let Sam Beam's voice carry you where it will, evoking deep emotions along the way.

0 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fabulous, May 16, 2007

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Robin Dejong (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Such Great Heights (Audio CD)

The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is that the CD is too short.