Fires [IMPORT]

Nerina Pallot

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 1, 2006)
• Original Release Date: July 26, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B000FAO9BQ
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,594 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Everybody's Gone to War

2. Halfway Home

3. Damascus

4. Idaho

5. Learning to Breathe

6. Mr. King

7. Geek Love

8. Sophia

9. All Good People

10. Heart Attack

11. Nickindia

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Re-issue on 14th floor recordings. Nerina Pallot is a phenomenon. Her Classical music training belies her background and her influences. Fires kicks off with the song 'Everybody's Gone To War', a hugely successful revival of the protest song with one of the most killer choruses you are likey to hear. Fires was produced by Howard Willing (Smashing Pumpkins) with Wendy Melvoin (Prince and the Revolution, Wendy and Lisa) and Eric Rosse (Tori Amos). Idaho Records. 2006.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, November 1, 2006

By	D. Berdanis "endymion9" (Joliet, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Only heard of Nina a couple of weeks ago when EGTW was mentioned as being #1 in a writer's playlist in a USA Today article.

Ordered this album from Amazon and have been playing it constantly ever since. Damascus is my favorite song. Really shows off her beautiful voice and great tune.

I've seen her called "the new Carol King" and that drew me to her because I'm a long time Carol fan, but I would say she is more similar to Sarah MacLachlan and Tori Amos.

EDIT:
After listening to this for the past few weeks, I've become more and more enamored of Nerina's beautiful music.

Damascus I listen to over and over. When I finally decide to go to the next track I get stuck on repeating Idaho for awhile. I think these two songs could really win Nerina some US fans and would promote those for US radio listening.

For deeper cuts I would add
Learning to Breathe
Geek Love
All Good People
and Halfway Home

I would avoid pushing Everybody's Gone To War. Why get in the middle of political squabbles as a newly introducted artist. Let fans discover it on their own.

Songs like Mr. King grow on me the more I hear them. Not a weak song on the entire album. One of the strongest albums I've heard in awhile. Nerina's voice is like another instrument and reminds me of Dave Matthews in that regard. I find myself listening to their voices for months before I ever get curious enough to see what the actual words to the song are. Then I find a deeper appreciation of the interesting, emotional lyrics.

If you're a serious modern rock/alternative music fan. Don't miss listening to this album at least once!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well crafted pop songs, May 24, 2005

By	John Maven "John Maven" (Los Angeles,CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fires (Audio CD)

I bought this record after hearing it on KCRW. A great purchase. There is a reason that Nic Harcourt plays certain music and it is because sometimes it means something more than words. This is one of those records that echoes Tori, Joni, Nick Drake, and others and deserves to be heard. If she was on a major she would be this years Norah Jones. A record worth listening to.....

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The new Carol King, May 1, 2005

By	Mr. John Booth "John" (Reading) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Fires (Audio CD)

If you haven't bought this album yet, do so. Be the first of your set to discover how good Nerina is.

This is her second album, but the first on an independent label with nobody telling her what to write and how she should sound. She sounds a little like Carol King on Tapestry and her lyrics are like Paul Simon at his best. Worth listening and relistening too.

At the moment she's unknown, but this stuff deserves to sell, pop music written with soul, a songwriter who writes about life with wit and real musical style.

I play 'Geek Love' every half hour in the car, a funny song about searching for love and finding that clinging together is better than standing apart.

Brilliant pop songs, recorded in the US by a little British girl, absolutely wonderful.