We Are the Ark [Import]

Ark | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 2, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000059M73
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,705 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There's something in the water in Sweden. . ., January 28, 2005

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B. Anderson (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Are the Ark (Audio CD)

I bought this album nearly 4 years ago on a trip to Norway. Along with several other albums from Sweden, the clerk reccommended this one.

Before you write it off as 'campy' and 'corny,' understand this is unabashed Glam-Rock. Not Hair-Ballads, but Glam-Rock. Ola Salo, lead singer and writer is a man whose record collection probably includes everything by T. Rex, Bowie, and Queen.

The lyrics are full of glamourous imagery, dramatic romance, and coy sensuality. This is not intellectual stuff, but rather, unabashed fun. This is not music for this time, but rather, for the times you wish you could let yourself have.

This music is equally unsuitable for tortoise-shell Greenwich Village types as well as Family-First Republicans. Goth fans will find cross-over appeal, and classic rock fans will love the nods to Queen (listen for the Brian May-style guitar work in the first track).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Schizofrenic Progressive Rock in a nutshell (+ a Mellottron), July 31, 2001

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E.T. (Amsterdam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Are the Ark (Audio CD)

An album with a LOT of influences. Never boring, usually surprising, sometimes funny.

Echo Chamber is one of my favorites and it sounds like a mix of '60s musicals, early '70s rock and mid-'80s rock. Something you have to hear to understand.

The next song has very definite symphonic-influences...sounding a bit creepy - you know, the 'Hammer House of Horrors-type'.

Basically, the reason I like the album is The Ark's heavy usage of a mellotron (my all-time favorite instrument). I just can't get enough of hearing those sounds.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maximum overdrive, February 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: We Are the Ark (Audio CD)

This is probably the best album in a long time. I think it's only available as import. This album gives us soething new, but old, and very fresh. Nothing has sounded like this in 25 years and it's about time something does. It's like a cross between musicals and glamrock in a nice package.
It totally rocks