Badly Drawn Boy - Born in the U.K.
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Artist: Badly Drawn BoyEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-10-17
Soundtracks:
- Intro/Swimming Pool Part 1
- Born In The U.K.
- Degrees Of Separation
- Welcome To The Overground
- Journey From A To B
- Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind
- Promises
- The Way Things Used To Be
- Without A Kiss
- Long Way Round
- Walk You Home
- The Time Of Times
- One Last Dance
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Free Music Review: Let's hope this isn't a trend.
Hit: 1 Stars
I've been a rabid BDB fan for a long time, and have always felt a huge connection to his music. However, this album's lyrics were appallingly cliched and canned, and the music seemed obvious and boring. I was thoroughly shocked and disappointed. Don't expect the same level of previous work.
Born in the U.K. Poster
With a new record label behind him and his most elaborate and pop-oriented backing music to date, Damon Gough a.k.a. Badly Drawn Boy tackles the subject of his youth in the United Kingdom on this quasi-concept record. The album, which was completely recorded twice, is clearly a watershed moment for Gough, whose lyrics about his native land are often enough unapologetically proud. With more than a little nod to Bruce Springsteen, Gough covers the '70s and '80s in his own country: the Silver Jubilee, nuclear fear, the Falklands War, and everything in between--all in a highly personal way. The piano plus backing band effect at times recalls Billy Joel and Ben Folds. "Welcome to the Overground," with its big, sunshine rainbow backing chorus and piano-driven groove, seems like a lead song from a '70s rock opera about one of the disciples, or some lost Up With People! song. Other tunes, such as "Walk You Home," have an almost yacht-rock sheen to them. Overall, when it doesn't allow sentiment to bleed into overt sentimentality, Born in the U.K. is a moving, cinematic effort. --Mike McGonigalBadly Drawn Boy returns with his fifth studio album, 'Born In The UK', on 16th October. Whittling down nigh on 30 tracks to just 13 wasn't the easiest process, but his first album in 2 years is also his best to date. The first track to be heard from the album was the title track - 160-seconds of rollicking rock'n'roll which details the events that have shaped his life since 1969. BDB-watchers will note the reference to Gough's hero Bruce Springsteen. The first proper single from the album is one of the best songs Damon's ever written - 'Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind' comes out on 9th October. The song is a swelling, intricate, ballad that he feels is "tinged with seventies-ness, with Bacharach-ness. I can imagine Pan's People dancing to it. It's part Bond theme too. That's my experience of being a kid in the seventies". EMI. 2006.
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