Lovejoy Songs In The Key Of Lovejoy
Format: CD.
Label: Matinee.
Label reference #: matcd008.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M6488
Approximate release date: October 13, 2000.
Genres: British Bands
Price: $9.65 [Out of Stock]
1 unit in cart. Remove from cart.
Description: This group from Brighton, England performs dreamy, slow-paced strum n jangle with male lead vocals and occasional female backup (which is quite angelic).
Track listing:
1. "A Taste Of The High Life"
2. "Penelope London"
3. "Thank You Lucky Stars"
4. "Radio"
5. "Sunset Sky"
6. "Live Alone Forever"
7. "Fantasy Island"
8. "The Girl From Headquarters"
9. "Butter Wouldn't Melt"
10. "Tomorrow's World"
11. "Tomorrow's World (reprise)"
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Twee Kitten review of Songs In The Key Of Lovejoy
by Keith McLachlan
Is this some sort of inside joke? Choosing the name Lovejoy must be an intentional ploy to remind people of Blueboy. If not, then the music certainly is geared towards exactly the same demographic-the lovelorn, the love weary, the loveless etc. Also to allow for further ruminations of conspiratorial inclinations both of Blueboy/Beaumont appear on this record and what results is basically a candidate for the fourth Blueboy record to my ears, except for one bit, the third song, which sounds like it got lost while on the way to the new Pastels lp.
Delicacy is the order of the day, beautiful acoustic guitars and pleasant fey vocals mixed with an even more delicate feminine voice create some of the prettiest dreamscapes since the wonderful Beaumont record. It is on the now mighty Matinee label and while I was driving behind a redneck in his Chevy pickup the other day, a pickup with, of course, on his rear window the usual cartoon sticker urinating on a Ford logo, and Lovejoy seemed the most inappropriate soundtrack to this observation, but it made me think that perhaps one day that same pickup will sport a sticker with said cartoon character wearing a Matinee t-shirt and urinating on a Shelflife logo?
So I began wondering why there are not more record label rivalries? I would be more interested if labels had twee turf wars, so to speak. Shelflife might have believed they had this sort of musical topography of exotic Siesta-wannabe pop covered and here Matinee steps up and makes a stand demanding to be counted. Will there be a beatdown or will they decide there is enough room for the both of them? And what about March records? Oh wait they are just silly. I am not advocating any sort of Bad Boy/Death Row confrontation but maybe a few harsh words lobbed across each other's boughs just to spice up the normally mundane and pedestrian life of an indiepop fan every now and then would give sorts like me a cheap thrill.
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Format: CD.
Label: Matinee.
Label reference #: matcd008.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M6488
Approximate release date: October 13, 2000.
Genres: British Bands
Price: $9.65 [Out of Stock]
1 unit in cart. Remove from cart.
Description: This group from Brighton, England performs dreamy, slow-paced strum n jangle with male lead vocals and occasional female backup (which is quite angelic).
Track listing:
1. "A Taste Of The High Life"
2. "Penelope London"
3. "Thank You Lucky Stars"
4. "Radio"
5. "Sunset Sky"
6. "Live Alone Forever"
7. "Fantasy Island"
8. "The Girl From Headquarters"
9. "Butter Wouldn't Melt"
10. "Tomorrow's World"
11. "Tomorrow's World (reprise)"
listen to all tracks as .m3u playlist
Twee Kitten review of Songs In The Key Of Lovejoy
by Keith McLachlan
Is this some sort of inside joke? Choosing the name Lovejoy must be an intentional ploy to remind people of Blueboy. If not, then the music certainly is geared towards exactly the same demographic-the lovelorn, the love weary, the loveless etc. Also to allow for further ruminations of conspiratorial inclinations both of Blueboy/Beaumont appear on this record and what results is basically a candidate for the fourth Blueboy record to my ears, except for one bit, the third song, which sounds like it got lost while on the way to the new Pastels lp.
Delicacy is the order of the day, beautiful acoustic guitars and pleasant fey vocals mixed with an even more delicate feminine voice create some of the prettiest dreamscapes since the wonderful Beaumont record. It is on the now mighty Matinee label and while I was driving behind a redneck in his Chevy pickup the other day, a pickup with, of course, on his rear window the usual cartoon sticker urinating on a Ford logo, and Lovejoy seemed the most inappropriate soundtrack to this observation, but it made me think that perhaps one day that same pickup will sport a sticker with said cartoon character wearing a Matinee t-shirt and urinating on a Shelflife logo?
So I began wondering why there are not more record label rivalries? I would be more interested if labels had twee turf wars, so to speak. Shelflife might have believed they had this sort of musical topography of exotic Siesta-wannabe pop covered and here Matinee steps up and makes a stand demanding to be counted. Will there be a beatdown or will they decide there is enough room for the both of them? And what about March records? Oh wait they are just silly. I am not advocating any sort of Bad Boy/Death Row confrontation but maybe a few harsh words lobbed across each other's boughs just to spice up the normally mundane and pedestrian life of an indiepop fan every now and then would give sorts like me a cheap thrill.
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