"I recorded killers and stars, by myself in the dining room of the house where i was living, in early March, 2001. I had just gotten divorced, was fighting with the band (Drive-By Truckers) and a good number of my friends. I was feeling pretty freaked out and isolated and this album was my therapy. Most of the songs were new. I recorded the album in two consecutive nights, then ran down some rough mixes myself (with no outboard sweetening at all) about a week later. I hastily pressed up a few hundred copies, made a cover for them, and sold them at my solo shows as a '1st draft/work in progress.'
Then the band hit the road and spent the next 14 months touring. killers and stars sort of got left behind. I really all but forgot about it. We were all busy writing and recording for our next album, touring, and just day-to-day living.
A couple of years went by and copies of the album kept getting passed around. Occasionally i would press up a few for some solo shows here or there and occasionally I would give some thought to actually finishing it. Recently I dug a copy out and gave it a serious listen. In some respects it was like listening to someone else. Most of the demons that inspired these songs have long since been laid to rest (or at least replaced by others), but the album kinda holds up for what it is."
Killers and Stars,Patterson Hood,New West Records,Alternative Country-Rock,Americana,Guitar (Acoustic),Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter,United States of America,Vocals
Killers and Stars
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Killers and Stars
Patterson Hood Manufacturer: New West Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B00020HAO2 Release Date: 2004-05-04 |
Tracks:
- Uncle Disney
- Rising Son
- The Assassin
- Pay No Attention To Alice (TOM T. HALL SONG)
- Belinda Carlisle Diet
- Fire
- Hobo
- Miss Me Gone
- Phil's Transplant
- Frances Farmer
- Old Timer's Disease
- Cat Power
Album Description
"I recorded killers and stars, by myself in the dining room of the house where i was living, in early March, 2001. I had just gotten divorced, was fighting with the band (Drive-By Truckers) and a good number of my friends. I was feeling pretty freaked out and isolated and this album was my therapy. Most of the songs were new. I recorded the album in two consecutive nights, then ran down some rough mixes myself (with no outboard sweetening at all) about a week later. I hastily pressed up a few hundred copies, made a cover for them, and sold them at my solo shows as a '1st draft/work in progress.'Then the band hit the road and spent the next 14 months touring. killers and stars sort of got left behind. I really all but forgot about it. We were all busy writing and recording for our next album, touring, and just day-to-day living.
A couple of years went by and copies of the album kept getting passed around. Occasionally i would press up a few for some solo shows here or there and occasionally I would give some thought to actually finishing it. Recently I dug a copy out and gave it a serious listen. In some respects it was like listening to someone else. Most of the demons that inspired these songs have long since been laid to rest (or at least replaced by others), but the album kinda holds up for what it is."
Customer Reviews:
Raw.......2006-12-30
laid back.......2006-03-24
I'm happy he released it.......2005-04-19
This CD could have easily been cleaned up but, thankfully, it remains beautifully lo-fi and raw. From creaking chairs to string noise to the occasional off-key lyric, KILLERS AND STARS is a brutally honest recording even if you choose to ignore the intelligent songwriting. Hood's voice embodies each song like a backporch storyteller revealing more character with each note.
This is a real folk album done right. I wouldn't change a thing.
A Low-Fi Masterpiece.......2005-04-12
Hood recorded Killers in 2001 at his dining room table during a low point in his life personally and professionally. The band was in limbo and he was in the process of a divorce. The result is a CD that's low fi and dark, but brilliant nonetheless.
With the songs consisting just of Hood's voice and acoustic guitar, there's a certain rawness here. And that's a good thing, because Killer's songs are just that - raw. Hardship, uncertainty, frustration, melancholy and resignation are all in evidence.
The songs are all great, but I especially like Pay No Attention to Alice, a cover of a song written by country great Tom T. Hall about a friend of his whose wife was an alcoholic. And Frances Farmer is another great song. Farmer, of course, is the tragic actress that went off the deep end in the '40s. Back then they called it manic-depressive psychosis. Today the neat term for it is bipolar. Maybe Hood understood how Farmer must have felt when she was carted away to a nut house against her will and given shock treatment. Anyhow, that's a glammed up Farmer you see on the cover.
Enough about that. Buy this CD right now.
Years in the making..........2005-03-12
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Read My Mind (The Killers VS. Pet Shop Boys & Hot Hot Heat REMIXES)
The Killers Manufacturer: Island ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000NOLOL2 |
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Exclusive Maxi-Single features 3 remixes of the hit single "Read My Mind". 1)Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix - 7:19, 2)Steve Bays Remix - 3:29, 3)Like rebel Diamonds Mix - 6:52
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Double Indemnity/The Killers/Lost Weekend
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores
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ASIN: B000001SJL Release Date: 1997-02-18 |
Tracks:
- The Lost Weekend: The Weekend Begins
- The Lost Weekend: The First Meeting/The Walk
- The Lost Weekend: Nighmare/Finale
- Double Indemnity: Prelude
- Double Indemnity: The Conspiracy
- Double Indemnity: Finale
- The Killers: Main Tittle
- The Killers: Prison Stars
- The Killers: Exit the Killers
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Three Scores for Films Noirs by Miklos Rozsa.......2001-05-23
"El Cid," surely was one of the disappointments, as it contained far fewer previously released cues than had been hoped for by admirers of what is certainly one of the most glorious film scores ever written. "Double Indeminty"-"The Lost Weekend"-"The Killers" is almost as great a failure on the part of Koch for three reasons. One: while "Double Indemnity" is a sort of "proto-noir", and "The Killers" certainly one, "The Lost Weekend" does not fall into that much-loved category of hard-boiled detectives and/or femmes fatales and the themes of incorruptibility and personal honor in a corrupt, shadowy world. Perhaps this album's theme should've been a celebration of Rozsa's 1940s collaborations with director Billy Wilder (which stretched into the 1970s and '80s with "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" and "Fedora"), substituting "Five Graves to Cairo" for "The Killers." Two: Maestro Sedares, like many other conductors recreating classic films scores(the music's composers often included), has conducted lugubriously, trying to wring every last bit of orchestral color from the music at the expense of its original drive and dramatic intention (contrast this with the splendid pacing of Bruce Broughton's conducting in Intrada Records' reconstructed recordings of Rozsa's "Ivanhoe," "Julius Caesar" and Bernard Herrmann's "Jason and the Argonauts," or William T. Stromberg's scrupulous adherence to pacing in his Marco Polo series of classic film scores. Three: Perhaps most egregious is the substandard engineering of this recording -- inexcusable in this 24-bit digital day and age -- with the higher sonic frequencies largely absent from this woolly-sounding CD. Re-equalization is possible with the right equipment, but the engineers at Koch should not have forced that step on the disc's unwitting buyers.
Still, these are three of Rozsa's most striking scores from what he termed his "black pictures" period of the 1940's, with Double Indemnity's" relentless prelude one of the most chilling compositions ever penned by the Hungarian composer. (Probably the film score closest in style to the composer's concert music, it was derided as "Carnegie Hall music" by Paramount Studios' conservative Music director, a man who felt that all film music should be of the syrupy pseudo-Rachmaninov school). For those who love Rozsa's music or appreciate the three scores' place in film history, however, this remains a worthwhile purchase, as long as potential buyers are made aware of the recording's obvious limitatons.
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[3 CDs / 37 Rare Live and Unreleased Songs] WBCN "Alternative Rock" Naked Series "A Collection of Live and Unreleased Performances"
Freak on a Leash - Korn, Stitches - Orgy, Battle Flag - Lo Fidelity All Stars, Believe - Lenny Kravitz What It's Like - Everlast , Teen 90 Nine - Limp Bizkit, Anthem for the Year 2000 - Silverchair, What's My Age Again - Blink 182 Down - 311 , Body Rock - Moby, It's Too Late - The Jim Carroll Band I Am the Bullgod - Kid Rock , Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots, Permanent Daylight - Radiohead, Voodoo - Godsmack, (Rock) Superstar - Cypress Hill Stellar - Incubus , Magdalena - A Perfect Circle, Home - Staind, Waffle - Sevendust Nobody's Real - Powerman 5000 , Push It - Static-X, Walk This Way - Aerosmith Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , Dead Man Walking- David Bowie, Old Apartment- Barenaked Ladies, Mockingbird Girl- Scott Weiland My Own Prison- Creed , Who Will Save Your Soul- Jewel, Sex and Candy- Marcy Playground Closing Time- Semisonic , Inside Out- Eve 6, The Way- Fastball Airport Song- Guster , and Natural One- Folk Implosion, The Passenger- Iggy Pop Save Tonight- Eagle Eye Cherry ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000FGAIP6 |
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