Where Eaglets Dare

Greentrials | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 2002)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ghostweed Press
• ASIN: B00006X070
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,176,730 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Greentrials blends diverse styles with a soft touch and a twisted sensibility that renders each song eerily strange yet achingly familiar. The figural music of rock’s history is here transubstantiated into literal music that seduces with every trick in the book. And each long-lost anthem filters through a "bigger is smaller" production ethic that weds overblown symphonic embellishments, bedroom tinkering, and a solid bass-line to get you on your feet.

Made with an ad hoc assortment of home recording equipment, Where Eaglets Dare swings effortlessly from the organic grandeur of Bjork to the radio-pastiche of Joni Mitchell, with the taut songwriting to back the production bombast.

It’s a dream radio picking up an otherworldly top-forty, celebrating the histrionic lives we might like to live. Songs about the apocalypse, witches, pagans, teenage madness, and lovers torn apart by a telephone in hock. Catchy tunes about ancient evils.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a great CD, March 28, 2003

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"db906" (McLean, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Where Eaglets Dare (Audio CD)

I was just randomly searching for new music and found this.

This is a great cd. It's one of those one-man-bands, but the performances are so tight, you might think it's a full band (well, with a drum machine) without first researching on google. I like every song, but my current favorites are "Some Battleground" and "Get Together". I hear a bit of Motown, Beck, 80's pop (e.g., Naked Eyes, Swing Out Sister), and perhaps Grifters influence in the songs. Yeah, it's low-fi but the production and performance are meticulous and creative enough that you forget/forgive its low-fi-ness pretty quickly--I almost forgot to mention this...forgive me.

I'm glad I found the cd, and I'm looking forward to hearing more from Greentrials.

37 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Gee, what brought you here?, January 24, 2004

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R. Kaiser "ckdexter80" (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where Eaglets Dare (Audio CD)

I was tempted to give this CD a negative review based purely on the fact that some "customers" (uh huh. riiiight) recommended this CD "in addition to/instead of," oh say, seemingly every indie rock album of the last five years. The annoying ubiquity of this album finally drove me to the point of giving it a listen (yet, thankfully, not purchase). This album might have been something were it not for the overproduction (too much tinkering), the headache-inducing arrangements (the nascent hooks are very nearly lost) and the laughably pretentious lyrics ("nevermore, nevermore, nevermore." you got that right). Do yourself a favor... buy any of the other albums that invariably led you here.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars convert, March 17, 2004

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"andy13b" (seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Where Eaglets Dare (Audio CD)

I first heard this a year an a half ago because I knew somebody who knew somebody who could get me a free copy. So of course it was given to me with an explanation of its brilliance. I thought there were some great pop songs on it but I wasn't crazy about it. I put it aside. Then, sometime last year I heard "summer at shatter creek' I liked "summer at shatter creek", but it made me think - 'greentrials was at least this good'. so i gave greentrials another listen. I didn't fall in love with it then, either, but I had a newfound respect for it, and since then, this record (eaglets, that is) keeps growing on me. I've gone from being a sorta fan of a few songs to thinking it's pretty darn great. If you prefer a live band captured on record, you won't like it. IT won't hit you in that immediate, visceral way. If you're a fan of great songwriting and orchestration, definitely check it out.