Thirteen Years

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More often than not, strings have often served as a wet blanket in rock & roll, smothering the rough edges and dampening the enthusiasm. There have been exceptions, though, when a small string section has been used sympathetically on rock & roll songs, sprucing up the rhythms and sharpening the tensions. Perhaps the best examples are the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby," the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," Van Morrison's "Cypress Avenue," Lou Reed's "Street Hassle," and Chic's "Good Times." Alejandro Escovedo's brilliant Thirteen Years is a landmark addition to the latter tradition. Unlike Elvis Costello's "Juliet Letters," which used a string quartet without a rock & roll rhythm section, Thirteen Years marries the dense, sustaining harmonies of the one to the implacable momentum of the other. --Geoffrey Himes

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Thirteen Years

Average customer rating: Harrowing. Roots rock to Soutwestern chamber music Beautiful The most seductive head banger I ever saw - wow! A sad, quirky look at love, lost and found.

Thirteen Years (Bonus CD) Alejandro Escovedo Manufacturer: Texas Music Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Gravity (Bonus CD) With These Hands A Man Under the Influence The Boxing Mirror Bourbonitis Blues ASIN: B000065T20 Release Date: 2002-05-14

Tracks:

1. Thirteen Years Theme
2. Ballad Of The Sun And The Moon
3. Try, Try, Try
4. Way It Goes
5. Losing Your Touch
6. Thirteen Years
7. Thirteen Years Theme
8. Helpless
9. Mountain Of Mud
10. Tell Me Why
11. Thirteen Years Theme
12. She Towers Above
13. Baby's Got New Plans
14. The End
15. Thirteen Years Theme

Tracks:

1. Thirteen Years
2. Way It Goes
3. She Towers Above
4. Tell Me Why
5. Two Angels
6. I Wish I Was Your Mother
7. Pale Blue Eyes
8. Gravity

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More often than not, strings have often served as a wet blanket in rock & roll, smothering the rough edges and dampening the enthusiasm. There have been exceptions, though, when a small string section has been used sympathetically on rock & roll songs, sprucing up the rhythms and sharpening the tensions. Perhaps the best examples are the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby," the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," Van Morrison's "Cypress Avenue," Lou Reed's "Street Hassle," and Chic's "Good Times." Alejandro Escovedo's brilliant Thirteen Years is a landmark addition to the latter tradition. Unlike Elvis Costello's "Juliet Letters," which used a string quartet without a rock & roll rhythm section, Thirteen Years marries the dense, sustaining harmonies of the one to the implacable momentum of the other. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Harrowing. Roots rock to Soutwestern chamber music.......2006-03-23

Vol 1. Concept album on his reaction to the suicide of his lover and the mother of his children. Harrowing if you pay attention. Unlike anything I have ever heard-like, maybe, chamber music by Gram Parsons. But Escovedo's voice is always more interesting. From powerful, roots-based rock & roll to strings-based whatever, from his own Chamber Southwest group. Standouts: tr 4-Way it goes (Country-rock anthem that grows from a quiet personal statement to something resonant and bigger. Lyric: "God bless the child that don't have a mother to put her to sleep."). tr 5-Losing your touch (slamming, anthemic rocker that might have come from the Midwest (Bob Seger) or the Stones). tr 10-Tell me while (seemingly from country weeper by Gram Parsons into Escoveda Chamber Southwest). tr 13-Baby's got new plans (anthem of personal loss with the resonance of a last Indian tribe in New Mexico). tr 14-The end (Lyric: "I've got some questions that need answering.... This is really the end.") [52:25]

Vol. 2. Tender, acoustic, elegiac tracks, including 4 instrumental takes on Vol. 1 tracks; 3 live versions of tracks not on Disc 1, and a rocking take on "Gravity". Stand-outs: tr 8-Helpless (slow funky strut that makes me think about Peggy Lee or the Blasters). tr 9-Mountain of mind (straight-ahead country rocker). [37:45]

Beautiful.......2002-12-05

Using a beautiful strings section, this is a record that never falls in heavy bad taste. As a whole it sounds like an hymn - well, it is. It's an admirable effort in a lyrical way, a haunting and pleasant listen. Some rocking moments are welcome, and excellent ("Losing Your Touch", "Mountain Of Mud").
Bonus CD: four instrumental mixes, and four live songs (a personal version of Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" among them).
Beautiful cover art, excellent sound, this is a satisfying re-issue.

The most seductive head banger I ever saw - wow!.......1999-06-17

The first time a buddy and I went to see Alejandro Escovedo's Orchestra at OFF BROADWAY in an old south St. Louis neighborhood, we were two of 20 people in the place, counting the band. It was early 1994, not long after BALLAD OF THE SUN AND MOON was released. Alejandro's band consisted of a lead guitar, bass, drums, violin, two cellos, with himself on rhythm guitar and vocals. Wow! He has such a knack for pulling you into his life very smoothly, right before delivering his knock out punch. What songs, what lyrics, what passion, what virtuoso playing, and what instrument selection. During his live shows Alejandro will lead into songs with a little story, like when Bela Bartok and Iggy Pop got involved, and finish the story in song. When last year's three piece band (AE, viloin, cello) played Iggy's DO THE DOG, the entire place was quivering. We have continued to watch Alejandro grow, and suddenly so have many others. All of AE's music is strong, but my first experience with BALLAD OF THE SUN AND THE MOON is still my favorite.

A sad, quirky look at love, lost and found........1999-06-04

Alejandro wrote this album mostly as a dedication to his late ex-wife. The words and music convey not only the problems she and they may have had but also the love he felt for her.

This was the first Escavedo album I bought and that was at a concert of his. It was the first show I had ever seen where I actually got chills, the music was that beautiful. A cello, violin and traditional rock instruments blended for an incredible evening. From that point I was a confirmed Alejandro fan. This album just made me a lifetime fan. Get it today, along with all his albums, you will not be dissapointed.

Average customer rating: Harrowing. Roots rock to Soutwestern chamber music Beautiful The most seductive head banger I ever saw - wow! A sad, quirky look at love, lost and found.

Thirteen Years Alejandro Escovedo Manufacturer: Watermelon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Gravity (Bonus CD) With These Hands A Man Under the Influence The Boxing Mirror Bourbonitis Blues ASIN: B000000FDB Release Date: 1994-01-14

Tracks:

1. Thirteen Years Theme
2. Ballad Of The Sun And The Moon
3. Try, Try, Try
4. Way It Goes
5. Losing Your Touch
6. Thirteen Years
7. Thirteen Years Theme
8. Helpless
9. Mountain Of Mud
10. Tell Me Why
11. Thirteen Years Theme
12. She Towers Above
13. Baby's Got New Plans
14. The End
15. Thirteen Years Theme

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More often than not, strings have often served as a wet blanket in rock & roll, smothering the rough edges and dampening the enthusiasm. There have been exceptions, though, when a small string section has been used sympathetically on rock & roll songs, sprucing up the rhythms and sharpening the tensions. Perhaps the best examples are the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby," the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," Van Morrison's "Cypress Avenue," Lou Reed's "Street Hassle," and Chic's "Good Times." Alejandro Escovedo's brilliant Thirteen Years is a landmark addition to the latter tradition. Unlike Elvis Costello's "Juliet Letters," which used a string quartet without a rock & roll rhythm section, Thirteen Years marries the dense, sustaining harmonies of the one to the implacable momentum of the other. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Harrowing. Roots rock to Soutwestern chamber music.......2006-03-23

Vol 1. Concept album on his reaction to the suicide of his lover and the mother of his children. Harrowing if you pay attention. Unlike anything I have ever heard-like, maybe, chamber music by Gram Parsons. But Escovedo's voice is always more interesting. From powerful, roots-based rock & roll to strings-based whatever, from his own Chamber Southwest group. Standouts: tr 4-Way it goes (Country-rock anthem that grows from a quiet personal statement to something resonant and bigger. Lyric: "God bless the child that don't have a mother to put her to sleep."). tr 5-Losing your touch (slamming, anthemic rocker that might have come from the Midwest (Bob Seger) or the Stones). tr 10-Tell me while (seemingly from country weeper by Gram Parsons into Escoveda Chamber Southwest). tr 13-Baby's got new plans (anthem of personal loss with the resonance of a last Indian tribe in New Mexico). tr 14-The end (Lyric: "I've got some questions that need answering.... This is really the end.") [52:25]

Vol. 2. Tender, acoustic, elegiac tracks, including 4 instrumental takes on Vol. 1 tracks; 3 live versions of tracks not on Disc 1, and a rocking take on "Gravity". Stand-outs: tr 8-Helpless (slow funky strut that makes me think about Peggy Lee or the Blasters). tr 9-Mountain of mind (straight-ahead country rocker). [37:45]

Beautiful.......2002-12-05

Using a beautiful strings section, this is a record that never falls in heavy bad taste. As a whole it sounds like an hymn - well, it is. It's an admirable effort in a lyrical way, a haunting and pleasant listen. Some rocking moments are welcome, and excellent ("Losing Your Touch", "Mountain Of Mud").
Bonus CD: four instrumental mixes, and four live songs (a personal version of Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" among them).
Beautiful cover art, excellent sound, this is a satisfying re-issue.

The most seductive head banger I ever saw - wow!.......1999-06-17

The first time a buddy and I went to see Alejandro Escovedo's Orchestra at OFF BROADWAY in an old south St. Louis neighborhood, we were two of 20 people in the place, counting the band. It was early 1994, not long after BALLAD OF THE SUN AND MOON was released. Alejandro's band consisted of a lead guitar, bass, drums, violin, two cellos, with himself on rhythm guitar and vocals. Wow! He has such a knack for pulling you into his life very smoothly, right before delivering his knock out punch. What songs, what lyrics, what passion, what virtuoso playing, and what instrument selection. During his live shows Alejandro will lead into songs with a little story, like when Bela Bartok and Iggy Pop got involved, and finish the story in song. When last year's three piece band (AE, viloin, cello) played Iggy's DO THE DOG, the entire place was quivering. We have continued to watch Alejandro grow, and suddenly so have many others. All of AE's music is strong, but my first experience with BALLAD OF THE SUN AND THE MOON is still my favorite.

A sad, quirky look at love, lost and found........1999-06-04

Alejandro wrote this album mostly as a dedication to his late ex-wife. The words and music convey not only the problems she and they may have had but also the love he felt for her.

This was the first Escavedo album I bought and that was at a concert of his. It was the first show I had ever seen where I actually got chills, the music was that beautiful. A cello, violin and traditional rock instruments blended for an incredible evening. From that point I was a confirmed Alejandro fan. This album just made me a lifetime fan. Get it today, along with all his albums, you will not be dissapointed.

Average customer rating: End Of A Chapter

Thirteen Years In Noises The Ecstasy of St. Theresa Manufacturer: Rev-Ola ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Czech Republic | Eastern Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Shoegazing | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00028FOOC Release Date: 2004-07-12

Tracks:

1. What's
2. Square Wave
3. To Alison
4. Fluidum
5. Alpha Centauri
6. Trance (Between the Stars)
7. Her Eyes Have It
8. Vacuum Blow [Mirror FX Remix]
9. 1+1=11
10. For That Moment
11. Neon
12. I'm (Not Really) Optimistic
13. Sensor
14. Local Distortion
15. Lovely Day Tomorrow [Ecstasy of Saint Theresa Remix]
16. Fluidum [Multimedia Track]

Customer Reviews:

End Of A Chapter.......2005-10-14

Like many bands, the Ecstasy Of St Theresa owe much to John Peel, who had a copy of their ridiculously rare Susurrate album and had got in touch with them while he was in Prague, setting into motion what became a session recording for his programme in February 1993 which led to a UK deal with Go! Discs. Thirteen Years In Noises tells their story between 1991 and 2003.

The Ecstasy Of St Theresa evolved in January 1991 from earlier bands involving founder Jan Muchow when he discovered singer Irna Libowitz. At that time they became a noisy post-punk band, influenced by Siouxsie and the Banshees with early Cocteau Twin-type vocals and a layer of muddy My Bloody Valentine distortion that may not have been totally by design. This period is represented by the first two tracks, taken from their debut EP Pigment, and To Alison, from the following year's full-length Susurrate.

The Peel session, which later became their first British release as the FluidTranceCentauri EP for Free Records, is included in full and is followed by Her Eyes Have It which was recorded in London in August/September 1993 for the album Free-D (Original Soundtrack). By this time the band had become more experimental and spacey, and the album title was telling, as Jan Muchow was to work on film and theatre projects when version one of the band departed (For That Moment comes from a film called Samotari). An EP of remixes from Free-D was to follow in 1995, glorying in the title AstralaVista, represented here by Vacuum Blow.

By 1999 the Ecstasy Of St Theresa was resurrected as a duo comprising Jan Puchow and actress-singer Katerina Winterová, who first appeared on record with the group on 1999's InDust3, hence presumably the title 1+1=11. The drum and bassy Neon, from the album, was the lead single and represents the first time Katerina had entered a recording studio.

From 2002's Slowthinking they were augmented by a number of musicians who provide woodwinds, brass, cello, double bass and "noises", bringing together real instruments and a subtle array of electronics. The shoe-gazing elements of the mind-nineties have been superceded by a glitchier psychedelic soundscape and fragile child-like vocals that bring to mind Hanne Hukkelberg, Emiliana Torrini or Múm. The singles from the album were Local Distortion and I'm (Not Really) Optimistic, and Sensor is also included.

The final track is an oddity: a British Sea Power song called A Lovely Day Tomorrow that, according to their website, is "concerned with a moment in Czech history, one that was by turns inspiring and tragic. As the lyrics suggest, the song looks back to a time in 1942 when men flew through the sky from England and on over Bohemia and Moravia, intent on halting the devil in his Mercedes-Benz". This Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa remix (done mostly by Katerina) comes from a limited edition single of, appropriately, 1942 copies, which was only available in the Czech Republic, from British Sea Power's April 2004 UK tour or through their official web-site.

Jan's liner notes end by saying, "We're not at the end of the story but at the beginning of the next chapter." As he seems to be a past master of re-invention, I do not doubt it.

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The Fondue Monks Fondue Monks Manufacturer: Fondue Monks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000059GDP Release Date: 1995-12-01

Tracks:

1. So It Seems
2. Awake
3. Mr. Mojo Risin'
4. Let's Walk
5. Coherence
6. Open Your Mind
7. G-Groove
8. Rain King

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Thirteen Years In The Makin ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005CFHC Release Date: 2000-03-15

Tracks:

1. Poison
2. Black Widow
3. Line Upon The Sand
4. Other End Of The Bitter End
5. Human Destroyer
6. GunSlinger
7. Fishin Song
8. The Heartache You Instigate
9. Last Last Call

Album Description

Independent

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Poison Against Poison Bill Foreman Manufacturer: General Ludd Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA81KE Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

1. Full Tank of Gas (Bill & Pete Version)
2. Bad & Good (Second Demo Version)
3. What Would Ever (Second Demo Version)
4. One of the Lucky Ones (Second Demo Version)
5. Dancing with Fat Francesca
6. Footsteps
7. Imagine You're Flying
8. Vandalized (4-Track Version)
9. Vandalized (Little Band Version)
10. Rare & True
11. Cat's Eye
12. Can't Wait to Be Free (Remaster)
13. September
14. I Know & You Know
15. Have You Seen My Baby?
16. As the Night Goes By (Remaster)
17. For Good Measure (House Carpenters Version)
18. Across the Windy Distance
19. 12 O'Clock Sharp
20. Like the Wild Irish Heather
21. Lunchmeat
22. Queens (Remaster)
23. St. Louis (Remaster)
24. You!
25. These Pictures on My Walls
26. St. Louis (Solo Version)
27. Candlelight Crept Through the Air
28. Where the Wind Blows
29. Crazy
30. Bathroom Mirror
31. Body & Soul
32. Flute Tune
33. Snowbank's a Feather Bed
34. Walls
35. Where Has My Blanket Gone?
36. Time Slowed to a Crawl
37. Tangerine
38. Trouble
39. Dance of Electricity
40. No Cause for Grieving (4-Track Version)
41. Orange Peel Headache
42. Banks of the River
43. Apocalyptic Traveler
44. Smile (Remaster)
45. Blue Desert Hills (Remaster)
46. I've Maintained My Advantage (Remaster)
47. Animal Shelter
48. Duck Hunter
49. Sun Is a Mighty Lamp (Remaster)
50. New, Nameless Beach Town
51. Long Retreat
52. Professah (Remaster)
53. Czech Philologist
54. Marine Corps Reject
55. San Diego (Remaster)
56. Building St. Petersburg
57. Some Kind of Magic
58. Good Life
59. Canadian Vacation (Remaster)
60. Stroke Victim
61. Governor and His Wife
62. Making the Papers
63. On Every Step of Our Stair

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