Down Beside Your Beauty

Favourite Sons

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2006)
• Original Release Date: September 12, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vice Records
• ASIN: B000H7JAD4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #39,668 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. When You're Away From Me

2. No One Ever Dies Young

3. Down Beside Your Beauty

4. The Tall Grass

5. Rise Up

6. Tear This Room Apart

7. 'Round Here

8. Pistols & Girls

9. Hang On, Girl

10. Walking Here

11. Things That We Do To Each Other

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

In 2005, Ken Griffin (Rollerskate Skinny) joined forces with four members of Jagjaguwar's now defunct psych-pop band Aspera. They released their first 7-inch, toured, and now offer this stellar debut, mixed by Victor Van Vugt (P.J. Harvey, The Fall, The Pogues). With songs reveling in emotional extremes, the album is at once intimate, muscular, vulnerable, and arrestingly beautiful.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a fearless record, September 20, 2006

By	C. L. White (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the first essential rock record I've heard this year. Ken Griffin (Rollerskate Skinny, Kid Silver) has returned from bartending anonymity and chained his vocal, lyrical and musical talents onto a juggernaut of rock and roll power. Delivered with the urgency of a shout and the caress of a whisper, Griffin's weary old despair rides an undulating current of melodic salvation into the inferno.

This record will not make you cool. It deserves to be the sleeper hit of the year. Now I'm going to hide under a rock so I can pretend that it's mine alone.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Hypnotic Underrated Music & Great Male Vocals...., January 1, 2009

By	N Bohn "cccrewmom" (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

I was introduced to Favourite Sons via a Pistols & Girls video on our local international TV station and immediately had to buy a copy. Never heard of Rollerskate Skinny/Horsedrawn Wishes or Ken Griffen/Kid Silver. Love love love the Favourite Sons...music is melodic, melancholy, enigmatic etc. What can I say...you either get it or you don't. Too sad that Favourite Sons isn't getting the recognition and fame they deserve! Sorry Ken. You might need to fix your karma but your music definitely does NOT need to be fixed.

4.0 out of 5 stars Doors fans, here you go., July 24, 2007

By	PhxHorn "PhxHorn" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This is a band that deserves a lot more publicity than they are getting. They are reminiscent of the Doors, Velvet Underground, Morphine, and other dark, spacy bands. Dark and haunting most of the time, and other times a bit more uplifting. I've also heard comparisons to Echo and the Bunnymen, but not having heard much of them, I can't comment. At any rate, each song is different, and every tune on the album is well-written.

Ken Griffin's lead vocals are what Jim Morrison tried to sound like on his best day, and I say that as a huge fan. According to an interview, he cut every vocal track without any edits, which is damned impressive considering how the vocals are almost flawless.

What the heck is up with all those used copies for cheap? Who would want to get rid of this album? This is great stuff.