Everybody Wants to Know

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David Freel of Swell has been creating gentle, intoxicating, swirling music from his base in San Francisco since the early '90s. Although critics like to contrast his sound with the stuttering slacker charm of followers Grandaddy and Elliott Smith, Swell is somewhat more refined. The title track is a subtle brooding anthem, while the instrumental, "I Don't Think So," is reminiscent of the ecstatic experimentation of Flying Saucer Attack from Bristol, England. "Bored and crazy / Everything was maybe / Let's take a different point of view," Freel sings on the self-immolating, Sebadoh-esque "I Like Poverty." Indeed. --Jerry Thackray

Everybody Wants to Know,Swell,Beggars UK - Ada,Alternative Pop/Rock,Ambient Pop,Dream Pop,Indie Rock,Lo-Fi,Neo-Psychedelia,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: A LITTLE MORE POLISH / A LITTLE LESS RAW I need to wash my brain Mr. Freel does it yet again

Everybody Wants to Know Swell Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Neo-Psychedelia | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Whenever You're Ready Too Many Days Without Thinking For All the Beautiful People Bastards and Rarities 41 ASIN: B000059MEB Release Date: 2001-06-19

Tracks:

1. This Story
2. Someday Always Comes
3. ...A Velvet Sun
4. Like Poverty
5. Inside a Bomb
6. I Don't Think So
7. East N West
8. Everybody Wants to Know
9. Call Me
10. Try Me
11. Feed
12. Why Not?

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David Freel of Swell has been creating gentle, intoxicating, swirling music from his base in San Francisco since the early '90s. Although critics like to contrast his sound with the stuttering slacker charm of followers Grandaddy and Elliott Smith, Swell is somewhat more refined. The title track is a subtle brooding anthem, while the instrumental, "I Don't Think So," is reminiscent of the ecstatic experimentation of Flying Saucer Attack from Bristol, England. "Bored and crazy / Everything was maybe / Let's take a different point of view," Freel sings on the self-immolating, Sebadoh-esque "I Like Poverty." Indeed. --Jerry Thackray

Customer Reviews:

A LITTLE MORE POLISH / A LITTLE LESS RAW.......2001-11-30

Sure everything changes, evolves or whatever - but refined Swell
is an oxymoron. The atmosphere created on previous albums made you feel as if it had been recorded live - at a pub - where you got to know the band intimately - while doing shots of Jaegermiester or something - so that by the time you're on the final tracks you're singing along and feeling the depth of your rock and roll soul. Generally I love a candy coating, but Swell made me love feeling rusty, dusty, and like some of my hair might have got singed (cause there's kinda like a smell) ... I digress.
New Swell still has the grooves and the hooks (probably more so) usually in multilayered sonic blasts (i.e. 'Everybody Wants to Know', 'East-N-West', 'Inside a Bomb', etc.) and are true to their unique song stuctures and understated imbelishments such - as on the end of 'This Story'. At best (and still this album better than anything else released in the new millinium) it's a pleasant reminder of vintage Swell (before they took out the smell).

I need to wash my brain.......2001-10-24

So, I left that previous review and I posted a little erroraneous info... the previous album was "For All The Beautiful People" and not "Too Many Days Without Thinking"... I can't believe I temporarily misplaced that info... but I still maintain... both are masterpieces worthy of all ears... each of Swell's albums flow right into the next (even if you throw all the singles in between them)...

Mr. Freel does it yet again.......2001-10-24

Yes... again... Swell has been at it for well over a decade and virtually none of you have noticed... I would like to at least think that there is a loyal college audience, but a majority of them as well are amongst the un-enlightened... hmmmm... all I'm saying is OPEN YOUR EARS... Swell has made some incredible albums and is showing absolutely no signs of letting up... this album flows right off of where "Too Many Days Without Thinking" flowed to... but seriously... if you are not versed in what these guys are about, try to find the albums "...well?" and "41"... you won't be sorry that you did... and shame on all of you if you don"t!

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1. Trip To The Mountain Farm (Where Fields Are Greenest)
2. Were You Not Going To Jump
3. The Birch Bark Song (Milk, Sweet To Taste)
4. My Cup Runneth Over
5. The Room Song (Around Rogen Swings In A Ring)
6. Langeberg's Song. From Valdres
7. Throw The Scoundrel Out
8. Sjugur And The Goblin's Bride. A Folk Song From Hallingdal...
9. The Girl And The Boy In The Hayloft. Folk Song (Good Evening...
10. Folk Dance From Hallingdal
11. The Drinking Song (Diogenes, Cantankerous And Proud)
12. Olav Trygvason (Broad Sails O'r The North Sea Billow)
13. Synnove's Song (Thanks For Everything)
14. Solvejge (The Fjord Flows Silently By)
15. Guro From Valdres (Do You Know The Lass Named Guro)
16. Everyone Wants To Know Evan
17. The Sgr's Departure (Let's Sail Away)
18. The Student's Song (Holy Is The Student's Call)
19. Ser (When At Night, Pure And Lovely...)
20. I Was A Servant At Kjolstad, It's A Over A Year Gone By...
21. The Boy And The Siren (And What Do They Call You, Fair Maiden)
22. The Church, Its A Very Old House
23. Paul, On The Hill. Folk Song (Paul's Hen)
24. The Happy Thought (Think, Just Once)
25. On This Earth There Grows The Grape
26. A Sgr's Prayer (Aanders Herre, Our Adviser)
27. All My Longings (How Very Little It Would Take)
28. The Lion Of Norway (The Old Lion Of Norway)
29. St. Thomas' Yodel. From Valdres
30. Ingerid Sletten
31. My Heart And My Lyre (I Lay Down Everyhting At Your Feet)
32. To The Tri-Colored Flag Of Norway (You Were Once A Flaming Cloud
33. The First Meeting
34. Margrete's Lullaby. From 'The Saga Of The Kings' (Now I Am...
35. The Secret Meeting (The Silence Of The Evening)

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