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Alternative to Love

ブレンダン・ベンソン形式: CD

4.4 24個の評価

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Brendan Benson is the kind of guy who still sits by the AM radio late at night, spinning the tuning dial from one end to the other in a hopeless search for the perfect pop song. Little does he know he's considerably helped his own plight by making an album full of them. Unlucky in both love and money, the Detroit singer-songwriter has plenty to chew on with his third disc. Using wistful bubblegum melodies and crisp '60s harmonies, in tunes like "Feel Like Myself" and "Cold Hands (Warm Heart)" he lashes out at former lovers and A&R men with equal venom. "I always wind up screwed without a kiss," he hisses on the Phil Spector inspired "The Pledge." But, in the end the man who counts Jack White and Beck as devoted fans, knows impending success is the best payback. "Maybe I've been caught red-handed, making off like a lucky bandit/ This wasn't how I planned it," he gloats on the title track. It's really hard to argue. --Aidin Vaziri

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製品サイズ ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.27 x 12.7 cm; 226.8 g
メーカー ‏ : ‎ V2 North America
EAN ‏ : ‎ 0638812723826
製造元リファレンス ‏ : ‎ MFR638812723826#VG
レーベル ‏ : ‎ V2 North America
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007MEYIU
ディスク枚数 ‏ : ‎ 1

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メジャー感覚溢れる大傑作

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前作にあたる２枚目「ラパルコ」発表までに６年を費やさざるを得なかった彼の苦悩が、遂に音楽的成果として大きく花開いたというべき大傑作。
前作までに漂っていたプライベート録音ならではの手作り感はそのままに、よりサウンド的に強化され、向こう受けするような垢抜けた感じが前面に出てきた。決して彼のピュアな感性を損なわず、メジャー感をかもし出した本作は、ブレンダンの成長と、ミキサーとして協力したチャド・ブレイク（スザンヌ・ヴェガ等との仕事で有名）の貢献の賜物だろう。
どの曲もいとおしくて、口ずさみながら胸がキュンとなるような感じがたまらない。ビートルズ的なメロディがこれほどまでにピュアに、そしてヴィヴィッドに伝えられるアーティストは、今の時代、彼しかいないのではないか。
６０年代を思わせる洒落たジャケットとともに、春を迎える今、じっくり聴いて欲しい素晴らしい作品です。

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カスタム77

久々のヒット！！

2005年3月8日に日本でレビュー済み

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とにかくギター・ポップ炸裂ってな感じのアレンジの曲で最高にノリがいいです。
80年代パワー・ポップを連想させる聴かせるツボを押さえてのギター・サウンドがたまらない。
正にポップ街道まっしぐら。

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圧倒的なハーモニー

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この新作はとにかく明るい。
貫禄さえ感じさせる雰囲気で圧倒的なハーモニーを聞かせてくれます。
期待を裏切ることない、キャッチーさを極めた輝くばかりの美しいアルバムです。
間違いなく、彼の最高傑作。即買いです。

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Bello, da ascoltare.

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Bellissimo album!!

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L. Lala

Stratospheric power pop.

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Power pop... good. This album is way better than good. The algorithms of the streaming services I listen to actually introduced this guy to me. I shall dub it Al Goritham. That nonsense aside, this guy does profoundly solid power pop music. He easily checks, and does it with flare, all the boxes for any power pop artists. What sets him apart and elevates him for me is his arrangements. This album (buy em all by the way) shows it off from track one. In the midst of impossibly catchy riffs he plants snips of synths, sounds that super charge what is already over the top powerful. Power pop bands like Tommy Keene or Teenage Fanclub turn out stunningly good albums brimming with great tracks and the way this guy hangs in that royalty is repeatedly surprising presentations. There is always a perfectly placed bell or keyboard or weird synth noise that takes his recordings into the stratosphere. I am thrilled to learn from Al Goritham that there is a new single out that leads me to believe he has a new album coming in the impossibly futuristic sounding 2018.

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K. K. Jakubczyk

This is very good stuff - more please

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This alblum has been playing on my PC, on repeat, all afternoon. The lyrics, the voice, the guitar, drums and electric piano have all engraved themselves into the frontal lobes of my brain. I've enjoyed this album for sometime but this afternoon I've enjoyed it even more...

Brendan is undoubtedly very talented. This recording is as fine a collection of pure power pop masterpieces as you'll ever find. There isn't a duff track here.

"Spit it out" sets the tone perfectly and three tracks later "Alternative to Love" is steadily maintaining things at 'full steam ahead' speed. "The pledge" is actualy, a very good Spector-esque wall of sound number that provides welcome respite - I like it. The last furlong; "Get it together" through to the wonderful "Between us" had me reaching for my air guitar and may actually force me to plug in my 335 and switch on my Vox. Sterling silver stuff. If you like Matthew Sweet, you'll love this.

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Ned Blackburn

A Tuneful Pop Gem (Mostly)

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Ok, so getting out of the way the fact that Benson's power-pop masterpiece 'Lapalco' was pretty much impossible to follow, 'The Alternative to Love' is a solid album in its own right, boasting some stunning songs. It kicks off in great style with 'Spit it Out', a driving, airy rocker with a killer chorus and whirling synths - in fact remarkably similar to Lapalco's opener, 'Tiny Spark', perhaps even surpassing it in terms of songwriting . Though none of the other tracks can keep the pace of the opener, there are riches to be found in 'Cold Hands (Warm Heart)', with it's pretty, McCartney-esque melody and lush, gently shuffling arrangement, emphasizing the retro pop influences present all over the record. The country-tinged title track teases for almost 2 minutes before drifting into a lovely bubblegum-folk chorus, and the sprightly 'Gold Into Straw' re-invigorates the album somewhat after a string of so-so ballads, which unfortunately dominate the middle of the album - light drifting psychedelia is OK for a few minutes, but ultimately serves to dilute Benson's irrepressible sense of melody. That said, 'The Pledge', with its cavernous, Phil Spector on steroids drums, chiming bells, and BIG, OBVIOUS CHORD CHANGES actually sidesteps cliche and ends up as welcome detour into pure 60s fetishization.

However, despite the occasional style shifts, this is not Benson's own personal 'Kid A' moment - the music is power-pop through and through, with the requisite chiming guitars, gentle palm-muting, and angelic harmonies. Such formulaic arrangements would normally fall into the abyss of ultimate blandness under most people's watch, but Benson's sturdy songwriting and attention to detail thankfully prevent this. The Elliot Smith-alike intro to 'Flesh and Bone' and the pleasingly ramshackle closer 'Between Us', which harks back to Benson's earlier work on 'One Mississippi' are both welcome additions - subtle variations on the overall mood without feeling out-of-place or like token experiments in genre.

Lyrically, despite the odd entertaining barb such as 'you give a whole new meaning to the same crap' (on 'Spit it Out'), Benson can come across as too mawkish and earnest. Though it's nice to hear a record so free of cynicism in this modern age, there's only so many ways you can write about being jilted, and Benson can sound contrived and awkward at times, as on the otherwise excellent 'Feel Like Myself', where he intones 'I won't forget/gonna make you regret/the day you were born/I'll leave you forlorn'. However, he creditably avoids slipping into mawkishness throughout the album, dodging the old power-pop cliches even when writing about the same old subjects. In short, he's no Dylan, but the lyrics really aren't the focus here, pretty much serving as something for Benson to hang his irresistible melodies on.

And that's the problem. Benson is apparently incapable of writing a bad melody, and the first thing you come away with after listening is the sense that he could craft great, tuneful pop albums for the next decade or five. Thing is, is he capable of doing more than that? Because in this day and age, when genre-blending artists are commonplace, grinding yourself further into a niche is the last thing you want to do, and it would be sad for Benson not to be more highly recognized for the top-rate pop songwriter this album proves he is.

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Go get this CD!

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If you are looking for something really good and have never listened to Brendan Benson, get all four of his albums. When I first started listening to Benson's music, Lapalco ruled my radio for weeks/months. After listening to his music for some time now, I regularly change from Lapalco to The Alternative To Love to My Old Familiar Friend. I have not listended to One Mississippi very much, so no comment, but I will be getting that into rotation very soon. I am very much anitcipating his new album in April 2012 and have pre-oredered it.

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