The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads [Import]

Disc: 1
1. Just as Was Told
2. Down Came the Angels
3. Falling from Cloud 9
4. With Crippled Wings
5. Waiting to Hit
6. Ground So Soft
Disc: 2
1. These Are the Days
2. When We Shall Touch
3. Down with the Prophets
4. To Guard and to Guide You
5. Into the Storm

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Lift To Experience: Josh T. Pearson (vocals, guitar); Josh Browning (bass); Andy Young (drums). Recorded at 70 Hrtz, Argyle, Texas. 11 tracks. Bella Union. 2004.

Tracks:

Just as Was Told
Down Came the Angels
Falling from Cloud 9
With Crippled Wings
Waiting to Hit
Ground So Soft

Tracks:

These Are the Days
When We Shall Touch
Down with the Prophets
To Guard and to Guide You
Into the Storm

Average customer rating:

What one would consider the real deal.
Surprising, powerful, and moving
A Religious Experience.
a fully made album, not a fragmentary one...
THIS IS THE POWER OF 3 MENS CONVICTION

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
Lift to Experience
Manufacturer: Bella Union
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Y7G3
Release Date: 2001-07-31

Tracks:

Just as Was Told
Down Came the Angels
Falling from Cloud 9
With Crippled Wings
Waiting to Hit
Ground So Soft

Tracks:

These Are the Days
When We Shall Touch
Down with the Prophets
To Guard and to Guide You
Into the Storm

Customer Reviews:

What one would consider the real deal........2006-04-04

I really don't write reviews often. This is only my second. But I've been waiting to chime in and say this is one of my favorite bands/album. And I know you've heard that line many times reading customer reviews. please stick with me for a second.

I love music. Whether its shoe-gaze like lush or slowdive. Whether its post-rock like slint or rodan. Whether its math rock such as polvo or june of 44. Whether its emo like american football or saetia. Whether its bands like echo & the bunnymen or the minutemen, or mission of burma. Whether its the pixies, the cure, or the smiths. or lo-fi rock like Pavement or GBV. Whether its the stone roses, or steve reich, or animal collective. or bands like the cocteau twins or bauhaus. Whether its IDM, or post-hardcore, or free-jazz, or alt-country. I love finding new and interesting music, and this is a jem in terms of music with a deepness and open-ness that is hard to find. THIS HAS GOT THE RAW emotional strength of bands like red house painters, dead can dance, and over the rhine. I know I sound like a music geek/loser with all the name dropping. But what can I say, I really like music and I really like this album.

so, highly recommended for anyone with an open ear, and genuine love for music.

Surprising, powerful, and moving.......2005-09-18

At first glance, it would be easy to underestimate this 2-disc set. It doesn't look like it would be much more than drinkin', losin' my woman, and more drinkin' rockabilly from the oddly washed out picture on the front. But mom taught me not to judge books (or CDs) by their cover, and with The Texas/Jerusalem Crossroads, mom was right.

What impresses me the most is the fearlessness of the performance. These are men who are addressing the issues of their own belief--about themselves, apocalypse, God, and Texas with the sort of openness reserved for private therapy sessions. It is a complete baring of the spirit, a willingness to make themselves vulnerable to an extreme degree that gives these songs their power. Without this total honesty and frankness, each song would come off as a parody of itself rather than the expression of faith, longing, and doubt that it is.

Beyond that, these gentlemen are gifted musicians, and Josh Pearson is talented both as a lyricist and as a performer.

This is a notable work that should be experienced by everyone, and experiencing it means giving it full attention. No listening in the car, no playing it while talking to friends or making dinner. It needs your full concentration for you to absorb the message and the raw emotional power behind the message.

I love this CD completely, and recommend it without hesitation to anyone who craves a sonic masterpiece, lyrics that have actual impact, and the raw, unabashed honesty so rare in most artists today.

A Religious Experience........2004-02-26

Put aside your own anti organised religion beliefs for one moment. Just as Steve Earle was lambasted by the right-wing for his song 'John Walker's Blues', Lift To Experience have been attacked by certain parts of the mainly liberal and supposedly open-minded rock fraternity for their religiously conceptual "Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads". Theistic or not, the content of this album has the ability to appeal to all. The emotions that the band portray via the dense and longing soundscapes and lyrics that encompass love, war, fear and death can be valued by all and narrate a vivid and often terrifying story. If anything this album will make you forget the modern bigoted views of many right-wing christians and maybe appreciate the worthy and intense feeling that Christianity was based upon. What do I know anyway? This album uncovers feelings in me that no other album can bring forth. Genius. If they don't do another album then I'll cry.

a fully made album, not a fragmentary one..........2003-04-22

this is a great album, the music is fabolous. i think the whole album is enclosed in a concept, such as pink floyds albums, enrique bunbury, and a lot others; who not only make the songs one by one and have no relation among them. theres a connection or continuity through the whole album, including feelings, lyrics, music and of course the titles: if you read along from the first song to the last one you can make up a sentence with a complete meaning; well, there are two phrases, one for each CD. this group doesnt only work with the musicality of the instruments, but also with the voice, they manage scales and harmonys and all that with the voice like it was yet another instument, not just repeating a static tone of voice. this album is great in complexity when you listen carefully through it, but its also digestable, causing no stomach (or ear) problems in listening it for the first time.
i just hope the next album is also made with such enthusiasm as this one and not just another album to pass the time or listen as background music during a party or seance.

THIS IS THE POWER OF 3 MENS CONVICTION.......2002-12-08

Contrary to what I've seen on this site. These men ARE VERY RELIGIOUS. I live in Denton and know them casually. I am not religious myself but I admire these men's conviction of their beliefs. You must really experience this band live. It is the only one who I have ever seen to leave a packed room completely silent with awe after finishing their set. You could hear a pin drop and it was from the sheer power emanated by these men. You don't have to be religious to appreciate how one feels about something. You just have to respect it. Besides, these are not your typical Christians. They drink heavily and are tormented by their religion. They are the huddled masses of humanity that religion was originally intended to serve. This record is a testament to a force that has helped these men through a life fraught with emotional as well as possible physical abuse. They are truly humble quiet men who play through the touch of their god. Like I said, you don't have to agree. You just have to respect what their beliefs allow them to produce. Because it is an awsome sound from the heart and soul of 3 real human beings.

Average customer rating:

Absolutely needs to be listened to all the way through!
beautiful
Texas during the apocalypse, do you dare enter?
A great record
Only album of 2001 that sounded the call

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
Lift to Experience
Manufacturer: Bella Union -- Dei --
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005AKOC
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Tracks:

Just as Was Told
Down Came the Angels
Falling from Cloud 9
With Crippled Wings
Waiting to Hit
Ground So Soft

Tracks:

These Are the Days
When We Shall Touch
Down with the Prophets
To Guard and to Guide You
Into the Storm

Album Description

Lift To Experience: Josh T. Pearson (vocals, guitar); Josh Browning (bass); Andy Young (drums). Recorded at 70 Hrtz, Argyle, Texas. 11 tracks. Bella Union. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely needs to be listened to all the way through!.......2006-10-22

If this isn't a perfect soundtrack to Garth Ennis' graphic novel PREACHER I don't know what is! Definitely hints of My Bloody Valentine with a little more emphasis on the low end of both the drums and bass, and the vocals are a little more upfront in the mix than on MBV's Loveless, but this is totally a unique "experience". And what a great band name, especially in regards to this concept album. If you don't like the current trend of radio friendly rock, don't hesitate to pick this album up, pop it in the ol' CD player, and just let it spin while it draws you in.

beautiful.......2005-05-04

After 4 years of waiting, still no sign of any new material. Wher are they now? I read on Bellaunion.com in 2003 they were working on a new album and Josh was going to release a solo album. Well, that was 2 years ago, so I am guessing these guys have broken up.

Yes, it has elements of Jeff Buckley. Not intentionally. Joshes voice is just similar sounding. Beautiful in fact, but without the range of Jeff. And yes the guitar sound could be similar to My bloody valentine. But there is no intentional plagarism here.
Just beautifully delivered music. Perfect infact. Don't let the religious content of the music put you off, I didn't

It is beautiful. Buy it.

Oh by the way, ignore the amazon desription up top. It has nothing to do with this band or or this release.

Texas during the apocalypse, do you dare enter?.......2002-04-02

Truly new and unique music if often hard to come by, but this CD is filled with fuzz guitars and depth of lyrical content rarely seen on today's records. The album is written by three Texas boys whose fathers were Baptist ministers. Oh, the conflict of living in the Bible belt. This CD is full of lyrics about Texas, God, and the apocalypse. If they were going for depth I think they accomplished it, and if they were going for satire I think they accomplished that too. I guess I can leave that up to your interpretation.

A lone fluttering, fuzzy guitar generates much of the bands energy and slightly haunting melody while the bass and drums come to hold it down from direct ascension into heaven. The two disc set combines to make a story and possibly generates a new sub-genre of music altogether. These Are the Days and Falling from Cloud 9 represent the most "songish" songs on the album, while many of the songs stop for interludes and story-telling. This is a work in whole (most tracks are over 6 minutes) and must be listened to and respected as such. It's a must listen for innovative music lovers. Similar sounding bands would be The Autumns, The Trash Can Sumatra's, and the White Stripes. While a similar band conceptually would be Mercury Rev.

A great record.......2002-03-19

I was turned on to Lift to Experience in a rather interesting way... Josh (vocals/guitar) had just recently moved in next door when I asked to buy a copy of his record after hearing a few songs I had pirated from the Internet. He gladly gave me a copy and told me about it being a concept record where the world comes to an end and Texas becomes the Promised Land. I took it home with great interest and it was nothing short of amazing.
The record is much like a painting, with a meaning and a story behind it; a quality that music today has lost. It is the CD in my stereo most often, and rightfully so!

Only album of 2001 that sounded the call.......2002-02-11

I can't believe this band isn't huge. It's impossible to listen to this music and be a cynic. The first track draws you in, and never loosens its grip. Lift to Experience is the greatest band to come from TEXAS in a very long time. They are not country, neither should they be compared to anyone. The guitar is EQ'd perfectly. The bass lines hover in a trance just underneath the wall of guitar perfection. Their Drummer Andy Young should be compared to likes of Keith Moon or John Bonham. The energy of the TEXAS JERUSALEM CROSSROADS flows with passion and realism. By the end of the album, one wants to leave to find the train that's "a commin." These songs will move you.
"WE SHALL BE FREE! WE SHALL BE FREE! WE SHALL BE FREE!"

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Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
Lift to Experience
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000254GAI
Release Date: 2004-01-06

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