Let's Bottle Bohemia

Thrills

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 2004)
• Original Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B0002JKPOU
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #124,833 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The Thrills' debut, So Much For the City, was a genuine bolt from the blue--a sunny West Coast pop album recorded by five boys who grew up in dreary Dublin, Ireland. It's inevitable that some of the novelty fades on the follow-up. Yes, the introduction of syrupy strings and fussy production touches has darkened the air. And the album art, unlike the atmospheric picture on the cover of its predecessor, hardly sets a proper mood. Yet there is still something quite wondrous about Let's Bottle Bohemia. At its best--the dizzying harmonies of "Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?," the epic sadness behind "Not For All the Love in the World"--there is evidence of a band joyously kicking against the sophomore album syndrome. --Aidin Vaziri

Product Description
Japanese pressing of 2004 release, scheduled to include one bonus track, 'If I Wasn't So Pretty' along with an enhanced video track to the first UK single, 'Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?'. Virign. 2004. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Let's hope they keep it up, February 24, 2005

A Kid's Review

I was immediately swept away when i heard the Thrills first album, SMFTC. I have heard a lot of people complain that they lost their californian sound with Let's Bottle Bohemia. Although the songs are not as memorable the first time through, after a few listens this album clearly stands as another great album in the THRILLS career. Sure, the sound is different, more guitar driven, but it's more mature and I like it just as much, if not more, than the first album. The lyrics are more sophisticated and the arrangements include strings. My favorite songs on the album include Saturday Night and Tell Me Something I don't Know. But all the songs on the album contain that touch that only the THRILLS can put on a song. I really love the THRILLS and this album only strengthens my case that THE THRILLS are one of the best new bands. Let's hope they keep up the good work.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Different, but I like it, November 21, 2004

By	alexthepsyco "Alex" (USA) - See all my reviews

Actually I would give this a little below 4 stars, maybe a 3.7. I like the tunes on this CD, and some of the lyrics in the songs. I think the thrills poke fun at society a little in some of their songs. The Thrills make some really pretty songs and just about everyone sounds like something you would see in a dramatic movie or something. What I dislike about this CD is that it verges on being whiny at times. I'm not a huge fan of emo, and this CD sometimes comes close to being classified in that genre of music. Fortunately, it makes up for it with songs which are more lively than those of most emo bands. This CD is far from being perfect, but it is very fresh, and is a nice break from the typical radio music heard on the clear chanel waves today (thank GOD!)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why does no one "get" this album?¿?, May 9, 2005

By	Brad Glisson (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

Before I begin let me spread out my musical credentials for you so that you'll trust my opinion a wee bit. I'm a guy who believes that "Pet Sounds" and "Astral Weeks" are the greatest records ever, who believes "Kid A" is Radiohead's best work, and who thinks that The Killers "Hot Fuss", Interpol's "Antics", Animal Collective's "Tung Songs", and The Thrills "Let's Bottle Bohemia" are the best discs of 2004. But the reason I think nobody gets that is that they haven't really listened to this album. If they'd give this album the time they gave "OK Computer" or that they poured into "Dissentergration" then they'd understand this as the masterpiece that it is.
The first two cuts from the album build to beautiful solos. The first one being a distorted Beatles riff and the second being a beautiful string arrangement. "Faded Beauty Queen" begins with the great line of "How did you do it? Oh she said, "Smoke and Mirrors, Anything for love" and when the mandolin kicks in on the second verse it's at that point that you are instantly hooked. "Saturday Night" is so deceptively hooky that it's unfair and "Not for All the Love in the World" is the best song Paul McCartney never got the chance to write. They continue through the rest of the album telling there view of California life and life in general and that's where a big problem that people have with this album comes from. On "So Much For the City" they were a band discovering California (which really is just there metaphor for life) for the first time, wide eyed and only seeing the good in it. Where as this time they are seeing it for what it really is fantastic but flawed, and they are reveling in the fact. Cause as they say the sweet is never as sweet without the sour.
So if I may suggest to you all give this album another 5 or 6 listens, and listen to it as an album is supposed to be heard, from beginning to end with no interruptions or skipping. And after 42 minutes of swirling guitars, solo's done with every instrument imaginable, great harmonies, Conor's laid back vocals, beautiful strings, jumpy basslines, key changes, and one of the most beautiful hidden tracks I've ever heard you'll realize that this might be the closest to a perfect pop record we've heard since "The Soft Bulliten". I mean come on, there's a reason they opened for The Pixies.