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| | Blacklisted (Original Recording Remastered) | | | Music Artist : | | Neko Case | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Anti | | Release Date : | | 2007-11-06 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Things That Scare Me
2. Deep Red Bells
3. Outro with Bees
4. Lady Pilot
5. Tightly
6. Look for Me (I'll Be Around)
7. Stinging Velvet
8. Pretty Girls
9. I Missed the Point
10. Blacklisted
11. I Wish I Was the Moon
12. Runnin' Out of Fools
13. Ghost Wiring
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Cut my heart right out!
Submitted on: 2009-09-10 |
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I started with Middle Cyclone, after knowing just a little bit about her from the Pornographers. So I went backwards, through Fox Confessor, back to the older stuff, including this one. You know what you see from that perspective? Depth! Nothing but depth!
Another reviewer mentioned "Things That Scare Me" (love the title, btw) It wasn't the opening notes that got me. It was the opening lines - "Flourescent lights engage, like birds frying on a wire." Whoa. The snarl. The bite. I could feel the knife from that second on. The first five songs are simply a beautiful, ripping, tearing, dash to oblivion. "Deep Red Bells" - haunting, aching, wonder. "Outro With Bees", "Lady Pilot", "Tightly" -- these are the little songs, for God's sake. But there are no little songs. They're my favorites. They each have so many little turned phrases, vocal caresses, drag-out, knock-down twists. I love the lesser known songs even more than the "big" ones.
From "Tightly", I love "All the Lonely Houses Stand Like Monuments...to Thieves" Not sure if she meant targets of thieves, but I like to think it means trophies of the thieves living inside (my living in an overly prosperous, sheltered, self-absorbed area during this financial meltdown). That's the coolest thing about Neko, she gives you room to interpret the music your own way.
Same song -- "New Moon's in the Alley, and its Madness...Calls to Me." I don't know what else to say. That's the whole story. You dive into her catalog, into her backstory, and you're doomed. She's the absolute coolest little sister you could ever imagine, or better. The madness -- more please, just give me more.
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 Neko Case - Blacklisted
Submitted on: 2009-08-01 |
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Excellent material. It has her signature country/rock-a-billy/alternative (I really hate labels because often none really convey your intended meaning). Neko Case's music really evades a "genre" classification because it is so diverse. She goes from old-school country sounds (think early Reba, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams) to songs that remind me of Fiona Apple and then she moves on to a Sarah McLachlan sort of style. The word "eclectic" comes to mind, but that doesn't really do her art justice, either.
"Blacklisted" is a great collection of music. If you like her "Furnace Room Lullaby" and "Middle Cyclone" offerings, you'll surely enjoy this one.
Neko case has quickly become one of my all-time favorite artists. Thank goodness I was bored one night in April and caught my first episode of Letterman in two or three years. Neko Case was the guest musician, and I was captivated by her art.
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Neko's Masterpiece
Submitted on: 2009-04-25 |
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From the opening banjo-driven "Things That Scare Me" played over the verse of a child's fear of birds on wires, my ears perked up to all the possiblilites that country storytelling played on traditional instruments could still be. Even on lesser releases, Neko can always grab my attention on the lead track. "Deep Red Bells" follows, based on a true story of a serial killer of young girls. Her songwriting is superb here : "It looks a lot a lot like engine oil/and tastes like being poor and small/and popsicles in summer." The imagery is precise and perfect. She lets her enormous voice wrap around the chorus to insure this dark little story stays with us a long time.
The other tune that really grabbed me was "I Wish I Was The Moon". A very original idea that suddenly makes sense out of nonsense. "I'm so tired/I wish I was the moon tonight". What does it mean? Who cares? Somehow I found it instantly believable.
The idea of the story-song in popular music is not a new one. It simply hasn't been done this well in a long time. On "Blacklisted", Neko shows us that she has much more in common with the back-porch yearnings of Bobbie Gentry than the claptrap abstractions of singer/songwriter types such as Sarah Mclaughlin.
This is a smart, confident, precise exercise that holds up to many listens, songs about the things that go bump in the night, things that don't go away after childhood, as Neko obviously knows too well. |
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in love!!!
Submitted on: 2009-04-03 |
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| all i can say is that it's never too late for anything! i'm a recent "fan" of neko case, and let's just say, the first time i heard her voice, i was hooked! i now own five of her records, four studios, and one live! and on top of that, shes's a looker with spunk and heart! going to see her the 8th of april at the 930 club d.c. can't wait, i so LOVE this women, that she's moving up my music ladder, that radiohead, jimi territory!!! oh yeah, blacklisted is awesome, like all of her albums!!! |
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My favorite Neko release
Submitted on: 2009-02-28 |
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For my money, this is my favorite Neko Case release. The songs "Things That Scare Me", "Look For Me" and "Deep Red Bells" are some of my favorite Neko songs, and she usually plays them live (we've seen her live several times over the years...always great shows).
This remastered version would be the perfect disc to start your Neko Case collection with. Her voice is in top form here, and the backing musicians are top notch. You can't go wrong here. Just the beautifully haunting and dark songs "Things That Scare Me" and "Deep Red Bells" are worth the price of admission alone. Highly recommended. |
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