Discover a Lovelier You

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Nothing says "surf's up" or "convertible tops down" like a Pernice Brothers record that hits the streets in early summer, and no one can breath breezy, sun-splashed melodies into three-minute fits of aggravation and despair quite like songwriting maestro Joe Pernice. On this fifth album (and as he with his previous band, the The Scud Mountain Boys), Pernice masks his sardonic report on a hypocritical, fearful, dumbed-down world with hooks and choruses you'll remember after three listens. Whether he's poeticizing about Gotham City ("Say Goodnight to the Lady"), overdosing on Chet Baker ("There Goes the Sun") or dreaming of a better life with browbeaten urgency ("Amazing Glow"), Pernice dresses up his dreams in music that will make your smile. And when he ruminates in "Saddest Quo" about train wrecks, plane crashes and the suffocation from tabloid TV ("It's a sad status quotient/Waiting for the sky to fall"), you can sing along, but you can't help but feel Pernice "choking on a blind faith far from broken." Brilliant stuff. --Scott Holter

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Average customer rating: Pernice Brothers - Where have you been all my life? better than the last... Back in the saddle A Lovelier You, Indeed! They Mailed This One In

Discover a Lovelier You The Pernice Brothers Manufacturer: Ashmont Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Yours, Mine & Ours The World Won't End Live a Little Nobody's Watching/Nobody's Listening Fox Confessor Brings the Flood ASIN: B0009K7RB6 Release Date: 2005-06-14

Tracks:

1. There Goes The Sun
2. Saddest Quo
3. Snow
4. Sell Your Hair
5. My So-Called Celibate Life
6. Dumb It Down
7. Discover A Lovlier You
8. Say Goodnight To The Lady
9. Amazing Glow
10. Subject Drop
11. Pisshole In The Snow
12. Red Desert
13. Amazing Glimmer

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Nothing says "surf's up" or "convertible tops down" like a Pernice Brothers record that hits the streets in early summer, and no one can breath breezy, sun-splashed melodies into three-minute fits of aggravation and despair quite like songwriting maestro Joe Pernice. On this fifth album (and as he with his previous band, the The Scud Mountain Boys), Pernice masks his sardonic report on a hypocritical, fearful, dumbed-down world with hooks and choruses you'll remember after three listens. Whether he's poeticizing about Gotham City ("Say Goodnight to the Lady"), overdosing on Chet Baker ("There Goes the Sun") or dreaming of a better life with browbeaten urgency ("Amazing Glow"), Pernice dresses up his dreams in music that will make your smile. And when he ruminates in "Saddest Quo" about train wrecks, plane crashes and the suffocation from tabloid TV ("It's a sad status quotient/Waiting for the sky to fall"), you can sing along, but you can't help but feel Pernice "choking on a blind faith far from broken." Brilliant stuff. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews:

Pernice Brothers - Where have you been all my life?.......2007-06-15

I am very impressed with the Pernice Brothers - their music is layered and their lyrics are intelligent and pleasant. Their albums are some of the few in which 9 out of 10 songs are great. I'd put them up there with the magnificent Belle & Sebastian, Beck, Kings of Convenience - the highest compliment I can offer! Their music makes for lush background tunes as well as nice music to sit and contemplate. Why aren't these guys very, very famous? Is it the name?

better than the last..........2007-02-25

While I like many of the Pernice Brothers' songs, I think Joe Pernice likes to listen to himself sing a bit too much. He often tends to regurgitate the same basic melodies and vocal voicings, which is too bad, because a lot of the songs could be so much better. That said, he does take a little bit of a side road on many of the "Discover..." songs. I especially like the first three numbers, the title track, "Amazing Glow" and "Red Desert". The drum machine is a real negative here, though.

Back in the saddle.......2005-12-08

I, for one, was not a fan of Y,M&O...I felt that Joe's songwriting muse had failed him for that one. Too studiedly literate song lyrics that sounded like an overcaffeinated grad student trying overly hard to impress his advisor...the melodies, too, were too overwrought, crossing the line from melodic into syrup-y.

But here, Joe gets his mojo back quite a bit. He's reined the lyrics and melodies in, to the point where they're merely catchy, not gloopy...

Oddly enough though, I think my favorite track is the instrumental...go figure.

Having said all the above, this still ranks behind their best "Overcome by happiness" and "World without end" (numbers 1 and 2, in terms of quality for me, respectively).

A Lovelier You, Indeed!.......2005-08-24

With their 4th studio release "Discover A Lovelier You" [13 tracks/39 min], The Pernice Brothers deliver yet another batch of songs full of melodic charms.

Amoung the highlights are the catchy opener "There Goes The Sun"(an obvious choice for a single), "My So Called Celibate Life", "Amazing Glow", and the almost Iron And Wine sounding "Pisshole In The Snow".

Another interesting song is the album's title track, an instrumental (which they are not known for), that might be one of the more memorable recent pop instrumentals I've heard.

One criticism (a minor one) is that there are no lyrics incluced, and not much as far as liner notes go, just a brief listing of personnel. The artwork is good, as usual.

All in all, this is likely to please most fans of the Pernice Brothers previous work. If you are a curious fan, and are looking for a good entry point into their catalog, you can't go wrong here.

Highly Recommended!

They Mailed This One In.......2005-08-14

Located right in the heart of this CD are two songs that epitomize the problem. They are the the throwaway song snippet "Dumb It Down" and the very dispensable instrumental "Discover A Lovelier You". The rest of the CD more or less follows a similar pattern of presenting some interesting ideas that are not fleshed-out into real songs. There are actually only three songs here that measure up to the Pernice Brothers' songwriting of their previous releases. Two of them, "Saddest Quo" and "Snow" as well as the passable lead track "There Goes The Sun" appearing as the first three cuts had me enthused that this was another stellar release. However, my disappointment quickly set in with "Sell Your Hair" which sounds like a Simon and Garfunkel B-Side and the ponderous "My So Called Celibate Life". After what I would rate as three great five-star studio releases, this one is really disappointing.

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Discover a Lovelier You The Pernice Brothers ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009OORRY Release Date: 2005-06-14

Tracks:

1. There Goes the Sun
2. Saddest Quo
3. Snow
4. Sell Your Hair
5. My So-Called Celibate Life
6. Dumb It Down
7. Discover a Lovelier You
8. Say Goodnight to the Lady
9. Amazing Glow
10. Subject Drop
11. Pisshole in the Snow
12. Red Desert
13. Amazing Glimmer

Album Description

Discover a Lovelier You is the fifth recording by The Pernice Brothers, their fourth for their own Ashmont Records, and the 10th album overall for Joe Pernice in his various musical incarnations. Picking up where Yours Mine and Ours (2003) left off, this one has 12 artfully crafty Joe Pernice originals, evoking and inspired by transportation catastrophes, George Harrison, O. Henry, Duran Duran, Claire Danes, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Morricone and other fascinating Italians, non-Italians and mise-en-scenic situations. Despite all the outside influences, Pernician flourishes abound. These are Joe's best songs to date, wellexecuted and tight, and all things being relative, that's good. And as if that weren't enough, there are two waltzes.

Meditation Music:

1. Disneymania
2. Forever Young
3. Free Me
4. Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Limited Edition with Bonus CD) [Limited Edition]
5. Happy Together: The Very Best of The Turtles [Original recording remastered]
6. Harmonium [Enhanced]
7. Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box [Box set]
8. Heart And Soul: New Songs From Ally McBeal Featuring Vonda Shepard (Television Series) [Soundtrack]
9. Here I Am [Live]
10. In The Zone [Enhanced]

Meditation Music

meditation music

Meditation Music

Anthology [Import]

Mozart L: Symphonie Des Jouets V.58 [Import]

Piano Music from Norway

Music: Bass Busters: Freestyle Bass

My 4 Stars [Import]

Maximum Dance 12 Inch V.2 [Import]

Les Derniers Humains [Import]

Naked Truth

Magic Wand Side Effects [Import]

Karl Jenkins: Requiem

Moon & Mind [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Karaoke Latino: Pop Latino [Karaoke]

Inimitables

Bach: Cantatas, BWV 243 & 10

Healing: Live in Detroit