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Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See

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adventuresome alt-country/pop that should be heard.
a mysterious visitor
Holy Sh#$t!!!!
It's not that great
Future Country?

Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Jim White
Manufacturer: Luaka Bop
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00026WT6A
Release Date: 2004-06-08

Tracks:

Static On The Radio
Bluebird
Combing My Hair In A Brand New Style
That Girl From Brownsville Texas
Borrowed Wings
If Jesus Drove A Motor Home
Objects In Motion
Buzzards Of Love
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Bonus Track 1

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It's no accident that Jim White is on David Byrne's Luaka Bop label. His odd, oblique tales from Pensacola, Fla. and beyond wouldn't be out of place in Byrne's quirky movie of smalltown Texas, True Stories. In fact, White has his own new film, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, to capture his chosen milieu of motel rooms, truck stops, and churches, and--as described on "If Jesus Drove a Motor Home"--waffle houses: "Jesus eating eggs with ya'll." Not that the artist needs visuals to project his skewed vision: Drill a Hole in That Substrata and Tell Me What You See is dense with dreamy, wasted scenarios, each spilling into the other. His vocals, which rarely rise above a half-whisper, are those of a loser at love cursed by self-knowledge ("You can't waste the whole damn day loving what you need to cast away") and a winner at ennui who spends his drifting hours "listening to the song behind everything I think I know" and finding only static. The album, his third, is treated to offbeat textural touches that reflect the edgy ambient approach of his co-producer, Joe Henry--electronic washes, horn charts, banjo, bebop trumpet. A colorful character whose real-life exploits include stints as a professional surfer and Milan fashion model--and struggles with drugs and religion--White is supported by an expansive cast including fellow tortured Southerner Mary Gauthier, Aimee Mann, Barenaked Ladies, and guitarist Bill Frisell. --Lloyd Sachs

Customer Reviews:

adventuresome alt-country/pop that should be heard........2007-01-17

more adventuresome than your standard alt-country cd, this great recording has not a weak track on it. weirdly different in a perfectly listenable way, i have been enjoying this thing for a couple of years now, and am in no way ready to call it quits. highly, highly recommended.

a mysterious visitor.......2006-08-04

A true story... one day, I noticed a cd sitting on my computer desk. It was this Jim White album. I'd never heard of Jim White, but I figured someone must have loaned it to me and I forgot about it. So I gave it a listen, and was blown away! Moody, mysterious songs, beautiful production, the sort of postmodern-exotic sound of a Luaka Bop release... it reminded me of many things, from Tom Waits to Chris Isaak to Brian Eno's 1970s pop albums.

So I started asking my friends to find out who loaned it to me. Nobody did. Nobody claims credit, or even knew who Jim White is.

That's it. I'm convinced this album actually has magic voodoo powers, and simply willed itself onto my desk because it knew how much I needed to hear this music.

Holy Sh#$t!!!!.......2005-11-28

Great! Jim takes the cake, the hat, the everything! Go Jim, great CD!!! They're all great!

It's not that great.......2005-07-03

I liked "Static On The Radio", and "If Jesus Drove A Motor Home" when I heard them on David Byrne's internet radio feed. I didn't like anything else on the CD. That's all, over and out.

Future Country?.......2005-03-09

To classify this as country seems like an arbitrary decision but it is too lyrical and traditional for post-rock and too mellow for alt. rock so progressive country it is. Drill has a loungy tone devoid of the hootenanny factor but it does tend to go over the top in the production area from time to time. Smooth and full of effort to expand the boundaries of country in most tracks, I believe White overextends himself in the process sometimes specifically on "Combing My Hair In A Brand New Style" which is styled after the Black Crowes' "Soul Singing" mixed with the Sopranos' theme. Each song is explored to the fullest, five out of ten going well over six minutes long, and the range of musical apparatus used like keyboards, bongos, an Irish flute, all manner of percussions, and pro-tools off-set the usual country line-up completely bending traditional notions and guaranteeing his videos will never be played on CMT. His lyrics pursue an Eels led depression with more of a "Jesus, what went wrong" edge to them. The guest appearance of Aimee Mann perfectly sets the tone of the album with her typically sullen croon on the first track and the Barenaked Ladies don't seem out of place here either although the album is definitely closer to her solo work than theirs. Aside from the combing incident, this is a strong album regardless of whatever genre you think this is. The question now becomes, will Blanche, Iron & Wine, and the like continue to push the barriers of their ancient genre or rest on their profitable achievements?

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Excellent Sounding Recordings
An interesting collection of obscure s/f-fantasy themes
Digital Sound with a so-so collection

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Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Excellent Sounding Recordings.......2001-10-16

This CD has been around for a while now but it is still truly a good compilation of Science Fiction film music given a new dimension by being recorded digitally. The BATMAN selections composed by Danny Elfman are very powerful combing rousing elements with moody enigmatic passages. Most of the other selections are short or confined to one piece. The selections from TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER and POLTERGEIST all composed by Jerry Goldsmith are all performed with passion and demonstrate Goldsmith's great versatility. Bernard Herrmann's "Outer Space" from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is brief but in effect makes it all the more powerful by its great innovation and lasting impact. The WAR OF THE WORLDS "Prelude" by Leith Stevens was a great surprise.

An interesting collection of obscure s/f-fantasy themes.......2000-10-26

Maestro Kunzel has gathered together a mostly-entertaining mix of music from various s/f movies. As usual with these collections, the CD contains selections that are hard to come by (if not impossible) on a soundtrack or any other recorded source. Not all of the tracks work, however. Music from "Moonwalker" is annoying, and the theme from "War of the Worlds" is just plain weird. Not Kunzel's fault, I know, but those pieces tend to (for me) mar the overall likeability of the album. That said, there are definitely keepers: The theme from "The Black Hole," the soundtrack to which was unavailable on CD anywhere until just recently and which by itself is worth the cost; the sweet chorus of Carol Ann's Theme from "Poltergeist"; the themes from "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "The Beast Master" (I am Dar!) and "The Last Starfighter."

Unfortunately, these movie collections tend to waste too much disk space on sound effects. Often inserted as short introductions to a piece of music, most can be endured quickly and forgotten. But on this CD, a whole track's worth following "The Black Hole" is devoted to the inane cacophony of electronic gibberish, space that would have been much better served by playing, say, the Love Theme from "Superman."

Still, there are more things to like on this album than there are to dislike.

Digital Sound with a so-so collection.......2000-06-25

This is another of the Telarc label's collections put together under the conductor Erich Kunzel and performed by the Cincinnati pops orchestra. Like all Telarc discs, the sound is pure digital and hence can really pack a punch. Moreover, Kunzel often chooses some vey nice gems in his collections -- e.g. the neglected Last Starfighter piece here. However, the problem arises in the fact that many pieces of film score don't play well with a large orchestra -- they loose their focused intensity. The Batman here suffers from such a flaw and is weaker than the original score. The Pops orchestra is best with march-type themes, of which there are not enough on this album to make it outshine the original soundtracks from which it draws.

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Import vs American release
If you only buy one CD in 2004.....

Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Jim White
Manufacturer: V2
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-05-31

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Combing My Hair in a Brand New Style
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Borrowed Wings
If Jesus Drove a Motor Home
Objects in Motion
Buzzards of Love
Alabama Chrome
Phone Booth in Heaven
Land Called Home

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Import vs American release.......2005-02-10

While it's true that the European release is exactly the same as the American version, a version was released in Japan that contains three bonus tracks. Definitely worth the extra dollars in my opinion.

If you only buy one CD in 2004............2004-04-20

Please see standard U.S. version for my review. No need to buy the import version, since the only difference is that the import version was released earlier.

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Drill a Hole in That Substrate & Tell Me What You See

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Drill a Hole in That Substrate & Tell Me What You See
Jim White
Manufacturer: V2
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002XVUS6
Release Date: 2004-11-01

Tracks:

Static On The Radio
Bluebird
Combing My Hair In A Brand New Style
That Girl From Brownsville Texas
Borrowed Wings
If Jesus Drove A Motor Home
Objects In Motion
Buzzards Of Love
Alabama Chrome
Phone Booth In Heaven
Land Called Home
Cinderblock Walls
Suckers Promise

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the singer/songwriter's 2004 album, includes a hidden bonus track, 'Land Called Home' along with two Japanese only bonus tracks, 'Cinderblock' and 'Suckers Promises'. 13 tracks in total. MOJO Magazine said of the album, 'This album is a big wet dream of loss and isolation, sex and the search for grace. The songs that aren't set late at night, in a motel room that doubles as a jail, take place in the rain on some desolate highway, which might be the path of righteousness but goes nowhere. The phone booth to God is out of order, the radio plays nothing but scripture or static, and the girl in his bed doesn't want to redeem him but needs a ride to the Greyhound station.' V2 Records.

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Japanese Release featuring Two Bonus Tracks

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Knodel rocks your world

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Knodel rocks your world.......2002-10-08

This album totally rocks. Plus the drummer is super sexy. Knodel combines a great sound with touching lyrics that really pull at the heart strings. Recommended if you hate Celine Dion.

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