If You Happy With You Need Do [Import]

Product Description
Long awaited full length release for Twisted Nerve recording artists and tour mates of Jim O'Rourke, Sigur Ros and Badly Drawn Boy. The album is a collection of the juciest tracksfrom the first three Alfie EPs, plus two previously unavailable tracks. 2001

If You Happy With You Need Do,Alfie,Twisted Nerve,Pop,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: a great albumn This WILL Infiltrate Your Brain

If You Happy with You Need Do Nothing Alfie Manufacturer: Twisted Nerve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Neo-Psychedelia | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005A039 Release Date: 2001-04-02

Tracks:

1. Bookends
2. It's Just About the Weather
3. James's Dream
4. 2 Up 2 Down
5. You Make No Bones
6. Umlaut
7. Sure and Simple Time
8. Check the Weight
9. Talking Song
10. Manor House Farm
11. Montevideo

Album Description

Long awaited full length release for Twisted Nerve recording artists and tour mates of Jim O'Rourke, Sigur Ros and Badly Drawn Boy. The album is a collection of the juciest tracksfrom the first three Alfie EPs, plus two previously unavailable tracks. 2001

Album Details

Alfie have Met with Rave Reviews, Having Opened for Label Mates Badly Drawn Boy and Coldplay. Their Following Grows Daily and their is Sound Pleasing and Vibrant.

Customer Reviews:

a great albumn.......2001-08-06

Really good albumn, if I was to make music this is how I would want it to sound, its all sweet, not a bad moment. A mixture of all that is good in music, this albumn will charm you and win your heart and live in your cd player whilst your other cds grow envious of this cd.

This WILL Infiltrate Your Brain.......2001-05-15

The first time I saw Alfie I was at another band's show. They were nothing like anything I've seen before! But after they'd finished I still wasn't sure. By the third time I 'bumped' into them going to see other bands I realised just how good these guys are. I found myself not only recognising every song but LOVING every song.

They are best described as Folk-Rock and are well suited to the stools they occupy live. This swagger and faux-unproffesionalism comes across as on this recording to produce a relaxing, beautiful marriage of vocals, lyrics and most certainly the music. They are diverse and skilled musicians who can easily crowd a stage with vocals, guitars, bass, cello(?), drums, flute and trumpet.

If you want comparisons they're hard to classify, but I suppose they sound like Turin Brakes without the vocal harmonies. Just buy it and listen - especially to 'All About the Weather' and 'Make No Bones'.

Average customer rating:

If You Happy with You Need Do Nothing Alfie Manufacturer: Twisted Nerve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Neo-Psychedelia | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Word in Your Ear ASIN: B00005J6U4 Release Date: 2002-04-12

Tracks:

1. Bookends
2. It's Just About the Weather
3. James's Dream
4. 2 Up 2 Down
5. You Make No Bones
6. Umlaut
7. Sure and Simple Time
8. Check the Weight
9. Talking Song
10. Manor House Farm
11. Montevideo

Average customer rating: Reflective, Playful, Intimate Psychedelic Pop.... Just Get It

If You Happy With, You Need Do Nothing Alfie Manufacturer: Xl Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Neo-Psychedelia | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alternative Pop | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Word in Your Ear ASIN: B00005N6PA Release Date: 2001-08-07

Tracks:

1. Bookends
2. It's Just About The Weather
3. James's Dream
4. 2 Up 2 Down
5. You Make No Bones
6. Umlaut
7. Sure And Simple Time
8. Check The Weight
9. Talking Song
10. Manor House Farm
11. Montevideo

Amazon.com

With If You Happy With, You Need Do Nothing, Alfie seem set on becoming the latest group of young scallywags to come slouching out of Manchester, set on turning the music world upside down. Collecting all the tracks from their first three vinyl-only single releases ("alfie EP," "Bookends," and "Montevideo") plus two new tracks, If You Happy With places Alfie up there with fellow Mancunian upstarts such as the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Stone Roses, and Oasis. Imagine a more languid take on that refried 1960s vibe that the Manchester scene pumped full of attitude and took out dancing: "2 Up 2 Down" is Arthur Lee's Love jostling with the Lovin' Spoonful over who gets to use the trumpet, while "Manor House Farm" sounds like Tim Buckley in a sunshine-flooded Salford. Alfie are a little bit of summer and a whole lot of Baggy; only this time, it's wearing sandals. --Billie Swift

Album Description

Long awaited full length release for Twisted Nerve recording artists and tour mates of Jim O'Rourke, Sigur Ros and Badly Drawn Boy. The album is a collection of the best tracks from the first three Alfie EPs, plus two previously unavailable tracks. 2001 XL release.

Customer Reviews:

Reflective, Playful, Intimate Psychedelic Pop...........2003-10-30

Although released in 2001, this appears to be a `Discoutinued' album, which is an huge shame as this is an album of unprecedented beauty, encompassing, Guitar-Pop/Pop-Psychedelia & a little alt.Country...(similar comparisons would be "Baldy Drawn Boy/The Beta Band/The Flaming lips/Mercury Rev" and most definitely closest to "Kings of Convenience" in overall sound/Vocals), with some outstanding slide guitar / Cello work that provides ample space for singer `Lee Gorton' to lay down some wholly intimate (and at times breathtakingly beautiful) vocals....opener track "Bookends" is a lesson in how to perform brilliant folky-rock, and the mostly instrumental "James's Dream" aptly shows how to hold the listeners attention before bursting into vocals ¾ of the way into the track.....it's entirely likely the band "Alfie" will remain a niche act, that captivates whomever listens to them, but the sheer hands down masterpiece of this album, really demands a much bigger audience.

Just Get It.......2002-01-04

Manchester has set itself apart as of late by bragging so loud and so long even the babies have swagger. For once all the bravado is worth it. Sounding the way Oasis can only now dream of sounding, Alfie give us the sunshine in our lives.

Average customer rating:

Best of Broadway Manufacturer: Intersound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DUNW Release Date: 1996-03-04

Average customer rating:

Broadway Manufacturer: Intersound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005YOX8 Release Date: 1996-03-04

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