Highdivers

Editorial Reviews
Gabe Roth, World Magazine
Highdivers sounds like a new crush -- sparkling, giddy, hard to shake. You're waiting at the bus stop and you can't get it out of your head.

Megan Hester, Brooklyn Voice
Unbelievable...this debut album is like a warm Pacific breeze in a cold urban alley. Hallelujah, I can see the sun again!

Album Description
Over two years in the making, Highdivers is the long-awaited debut release from San Francisco's Highdivers, an ever-shifting collective of local musicians centered around veteran pop singer/songwriter John O'Brien. With Highdivers, O'Brien and company draw from American traditions of punk, indie-pop, folk, and hip-hop to present a fresh, modern collection of cleverly arranged and beautifully executed songs. Highdivers is brimming with catchy melodies, tight vocal harmonies, and diverse instrumentation.

Highdivers

Average customer rating:

High Divers- what a debut!
Rocket Heart! Rocket Heart! Rocket Heart!
Delicious!
We All Should Hope to Dive From Such Heights
The Best New CD I've Heard In Years

Highdivers

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004Z4JN
Release Date: 2000-02-19

Tracks:

rocketheart
north berkeley
white guys
just the same
eviction suite no.3

Album Description

Over two years in the making, Highdivers is the long-awaited debut release from San Francisco's Highdivers, an ever-shifting collective of local musicians centered around veteran pop singer/songwriter John O'Brien. With Highdivers, O'Brien and company draw from American traditions of punk, indie-pop, folk, and hip-hop to present a fresh, modern collection of cleverly arranged and beautifully executed songs. Highdivers is brimming with catchy melodies, tight vocal harmonies, and diverse instrumentation.

Customer Reviews:

High Divers- what a debut!.......2004-03-11

"Take a moment to reflect on the constructive nature of race and gender and see that its alright..."- Anyone who can think of those lyrics and have the courage to try to sing it in a breath deserves your attention. John O'Brien is a brilliant song writer with so much heart. His lyrics are amazing and smart but the music he writes is so right on- Eviction Suite No. 3 (track 4 on this album) can be listened to on repeat- dj shadow and moby- put this in your pipe and smoke it! This is good stuff. Excited to hear the new album, Real Life.

Rocket Heart! Rocket Heart! Rocket Heart!.......2000-10-13

As a once-and-never-again Providencian and San Franciscan, this CD reminds me of the joy of the Tuesday Weld, John O'Brien's old band. O'Brien constructs new songs and re-records old Weld standbys that take the old but successful Weld formula of jangly, smart pop into the 21st Century. O'Brien's so innocent voice and wry lyrics lend a touching humanity and the subtle humor that permeates each song. This hi concept/low budget music succeeds in getting your feet a-tapping, your mind a-cranking and your lips a-grinning. My only disappointmnet is that O'Brien did not give us seven or eight tracks of "Rocket Heart," which is a monumental tribute to the powers of sensitive, tall, white-boy loving. The song speaks to me as few ever have! I wait with baited breath on the edge of my seat for the follow up recording which will hopefully include that old standby and crowd-pleasing favorite, "Max Weber, the Father of Modern Sociology."

Delicious!.......2000-10-13

I stumbled upon the Highdivers album after a poet friend of mine, who shall remain namelessly drunk upon a lower east side bar stool, mispronounced another band of interest. (If you say Skywriters when you're inebriated it sounds like Highdivers.) But once I heard the sweet crooning combined with the raw energy of the "rock," I was for once I was glad people slur their words when they're drunk. The similarities between tracks 2 and 5 are haunting in a "Casper the Ghost" kind of way. And the instant classics "rocketheart" and "just the same" will massage my soul in a slightly erotic, but not too gentle or tickly, way forever. I highly recommend this album to anyone who secretly desires for music to bring the world together in a violently sweet typhoon of sound. To quote John O'Brien, "..." It was truly a revolutionary audio experience to be driving down University Parkway in Winston-Salem, NC and be confronted with the following lyrics, "Give me the time and I'll stay here forever / Give me the voice and I'll cry out his name." I almost wet my pants from the seering echoes of gothic rapture. All in all this is perhaps an album that possesses a listening experience comparable to the impossible scenario of being a sentient human being while still in the womb (and having x-ray vision). I congratulate Mr. O'Brien on his ability to harness not only my hidden cravings but the hidden cravings of the thousands of down trodden individuals who yearn and long for something more palpable than the summit of what seems to be a sugary sweet mountain of insincerity and vapidness. Hurrah for J.O.B!

We All Should Hope to Dive From Such Heights.......2000-10-12

The Highdivers CD was like music to my ears. Things in general make a whole lot more sense to me now that I've heard it, and I'm doing fine now, thank you. It's pure as cold driven snow, as someone else once said, but not about highdivers, but they would have if they had heard this CD before saying it. Listening to it is like having fresh sheets and fresh flowers delivered to you daily. Loverly. Packs a whallup.

The Best New CD I've Heard In Years.......2000-10-06

John O'Brien's Highdivers is probably the best new CD I've heard since Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever. But don't just take my word for it - buy this CD, support an up-and-coming new artist, and I promise you will not be sorry. Well, I guess that's the same as saying take my word for it. But you should take my word for it, because I know music, and this is good music.

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