This Bird Has Flown A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul

Product Description This Bird Has Flown is the 40th anniversary indie-rock tribute to the Beatles second album of 1965 Rubber Soul. Helping to pay tribute are The Donnas, Dar Williams, Ben Harper, Low, Mindy Smith, Ben Lee, Nellie McKay and more. Razor & Tie. 2005. Tienda Need to be reminded just how singular a phenomenon the Beatles were? Take a listen to This Bird Has Flown, Razor & Tie's 40th anniversary indie-rock tribute to their second album of 1965, Rubber Soul. Tributes to other artists that aim to include songs as timeless as "Drive My Car," "Norwegian Wood," "Michelle," and "In My Life" typically have to cover their entire careers, and even then that's often not enough. This, however, is a one-album show, sequenced in the same order as the original, and the same thing could have been done with almost any other of the Beatles' LPs, with similar results. In some cases--the Donnas' "Drive My Car," Dar Williams's "You Won't See Me," Rhett Miller's "Girl"--the arrangements are a little too note-perfectly faithful to remain compelling. But a good number of the tracks here are sufficiently obscure to keep things interesting even if their arrangements do hew a little too closely to the originals. Into this category fall Yonder Mountain String Band's "Think for Yourself" and Mindy Smith's "The Word," two rarely covered songs it's a delight to hear recast in the Americana mold.The best listens on This Bird Has Flown, however, are those that exhibit some of the experimentalism and innovation that was the mid-period Beatles' hallmark. On "If I Needed Someone," Nellie McKay turns George Harrison's Byrds pastiche into a breezy day at a Brazilian beach; Low strip "Nowhere Man" to its bones in a typically minimalist performance; the Fiery Furnaces recast "Norwegian Wood" as a keyboard-driven funhouse extravaganza; and Sufjan Stevens warbles "What Goes On" beyond recognition, taking it from country Ringo vehicle to jazzy woodwind spectacle. The disc closes with the Cowboy Junkies' "Run for Your Life": with murderous lead vocals and ominous, threatening instrumentation, it's a far cry from the slight number that weakly ended the original. Here's hoping there's a follow-up in 2006 for the 40th anniversary of Revolver. --Benjamin LukoffMore Tributes of Note Labour of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe Caroline Now!: The Songs of Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys This Is Where I Belong: The Songs of Ray Davies & the Kinks

Detalles del producto Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 pulgadas; 3.84 Onzas Fabricante : Razor & Tie Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2005 Tiempo de ejecución : 43 minutos Producto en Tienda desde : Julio 27, 2006 Etiqueta : Razor & Tie ASIN : B000B8PC6S Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº86,634 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº236 en Tributos Pop nº1,727 en Rock Indie nº2,116 en Alternativo Adulto (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 3.9 de 5 estrellas 26 calificaciones Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 pulgadas; 3.84 Onzas Fabricante : Razor & Tie Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2005 Tiempo de ejecución : 43 minutos Producto en Tienda desde : Julio 27, 2006 Etiqueta : Razor & Tie ASIN : B000B8PC6S Número de discos : 1