Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues - VINYL LP
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Like very nearly every worthwhile thing, making this album was not easy; it was a difficult second album to make. Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and Van Morrisons ASTRAL WEEKS in particular, HELPLESSNESS BLUES sees Fleet Foxes heighten and extend themselves, adding instrumentation (clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, etc., along with more traditional band instrumentation), with a focus on clear, direct lyrics, and an emphasis on group vocal harmonies. We have it on good authority that the album is called HELPLESSNESS BLUES for at least a couple of reasons. One, it's kind of a funny title. Secondly, one of the prevailing themes of the album is the struggle between who you are and who you want to be or who you want to end up, and how sometimes you are the only thing getting in the way of that. Having heard HELPLESSNESS BLUES, we mean to get out of it's way. Album Tracks 1. Montezuma 2. Bedouin Dress 3. Sim Sala Bim 4. Battery Kinzie 5. The Plains/Bitter Dancer 6. Helplessness Blues 1. The Cascades 2. Lorelei 3. Someone You'd Admire 4. The Shrine/An Argument 5. Blue Spotted Tail 6. Grown Ocean
Limited gold colored vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Cher and Christina Aguilera, together? On the same soundtrack? Who cares that the Burlesque film garnered mixed reviews at best (though a lot of folks now regard the 2010 feature as a camp classic)? The soundtrack had no such difficulties; the album went Top 20 on the charts, won a Grammy nomination, and Cher's performance of InchYou Haven't Seen the Last of MeInch won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Aguilera's star turn was something of a coming-out party, too; not only did she enjoy critical acclaim for her first leading role in a film, but her musical contributions featuring a couple of Etta James songs and a cover of Marlene Dietrich's InchA Guy What Takes His Time' were sassy, jazzy, and brassy, not unlike her work on her #1 album from 2006, Back to Basics. In short, this one's a must for fans of either artist, and for this pressing, we at Real Gone Music have created a bling-y metallic gold vinyl edition housed inside a gatefold cover boasting some sensational production stills! Album Tracks 1. Something's Got a Hold on Me Christina Aguilera 2. Welcome to Burlesque Cher 3. Tough Lover Christina Aguilera 4. But I Am a Good Girl Christina Aguilera 5. Guy What Takes His Time Christina Aguilera 6. Express Christina Aguilera 7. You Haven't Seen the Last of Me Cher 8. Bound to You Christina Aguilera 9. Show Me How You Burlesque Christina Aguilera 10. The Beautiful People (From Burlesque) Christina Aguilera
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