Y'all get scared now, ya hear

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Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Play It Again Sam
• ASIN: B00005OC92
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,144 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #32 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo Fi
  • #34 in Music > World Music > Europe > British Isles > Scotland
  • #98 in Music > Indie Music > World Music > General

Track Listings

1. Will You Please Be There For Me

2. The Opening Taste

3. 12 Hours It Takes Sometimes

4. Deviance

5. If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet

6. Fire Bell

7. If Everything Fell Quiet

8. I've Never Understood

9. Raindrop

10. Sting

11. Billed As Single

12. Tout Le Monde

13. Nytol

14. The Day We All Died

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It makes everything easier..., October 11, 2001

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Doug Kochmanski (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Y'all get scared now, ya hear (Audio CD)

This album makes everything easier. Everything about life, in general. I get up to go to work, and for the last three mornings, I've listened to this album. It's the perfect length for the drive, and the fact that the songs are ordered on the album in from simplest to most musical and most instrumental make the morning, in a way, build into a good idea. I noticed that another reviewer mentioned that this is an album to listen to while you're falling for someone. I agree. I'm at the beginning of a new relationship and the first track, "Be There For Me," is everything I'd ever want to say--but haven't said, yet. The rest of the tracks on the album are all reasons to say it, though. I'm amazed that this album was recorded in ten days. It's sonically beautiful and so intense; but at the same time whimsical. I think that's a good word. The second portion of the album is a stretch from the first, but a perfect one. The processed rhythms and bass lines that subtly drive the last tracks are amazingly crafted, and the closing track, "The Day We All Died," is about the finest melody I've ever heard. That's about all I can say. I love Belle & Sebastian; I love this. You all will, too, you hear?

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Slowcore with Balls, September 28, 2001

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Stephen Silberman "writer, Wired Magazine" (SF, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Y'all get scared now, ya hear (Audio CD)

Believe it or not, I'm not familiar with Snow Patrol, Arab Strap, or even Belle and Sebastian. I bought this album because I heard it playing in the record store. It's wonderful: poignant, playful, subtly profound. It starts very simply -- a voice and and acoustic guitar -- and builds slowly and steadily to a raging rocker, but gently all the way, and with a sweet "goodbye" at the close.

Fans of Yo La Tengo, Low, and the (incredible and underrated) Red House Painters should love this.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to be scared at here, just awesome intelligent music, August 14, 2001

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Arab Strap (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Y'all Get Scared Now Ya Hear (Audio CD)

This debut from some of the best bands on the Glasgow (Scotland) indie scene is a curious mix of lo-fi misery, tinged with haunting ooh-aah vocals through to melodic riffs, and who knows, on tracks 5 & 7, perhaps even a single! The bands frontsman, Gary Lightbody of Irelands great Snow Patrol, puts his own stamp quickly on the proceedings with the beautiful and accessible opener "Will you be there for me". The album moves mysteriously through it's superb collection bringing out the best (though perhaps in a few cases could have allowed a little more) from bands as diverse as Arab Strap, Mogwai, Astrid and Belle and Sebastian. Nice atmospheric percussion and brass permeate throughout, led by sad almost tortured vocals but at all times fantastically expressive, you realy feel what they're trying to say. The story goes that Lightbody drifted through the extensive Glasgow indie scene asking everyone "Do you wanna be in me band?" and thankfully they all seem to have said yes. How on earth he then put together such an accomplished collection with real meaning is amazing. I believe that "Y'all get scared" is a gorgeous and unique record and once those lingering ooh-aahs drill into your subconscious, you just won't want them to stop.