Overcome By Happiness [Import]

1. Crestfallen

2. Overcome By Happiness

3. Sick Of You

4. Clear Spot

5. Dimmest Star

6. Monkey Suit

7. Chicken Wire

8. Wait To Stop

9. All I Know

10. Shoes & Clothes

11. Wherein Obscurely

12. Ferris Wheel

13. Jimmy Coma

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Up the Down Escalator, and Our Time Has Passed (4 Track Version).

Overcome By Happiness,Pernice Brothers,Subpo,Pop

Average customer rating:

Have a slice of Bread
Dreck
Brian Wilson meets the Byrds...
Plenty to like here.
Not enough superlatives to describe it

Overcome by Happiness
The Pernice Brothers
Manufacturer: Sub Pop
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006OJH
Release Date: 1998-05-19

Tracks:

Crestfallen
Overcome by Happiness
Sick of You
Clear Spot
Dimmest Star
Monkey Suit
Chicken Wire
Wait to Stop
All I Know
Shoes and Clothes
Wherein Obscurely
Ferris Wheel

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

Joe Pernice is to the Eastern Seaboard what Elliott Smith is to the Pacific Northwest: anything but happy, the ex-Scud Mountain Boy forgoes the cowboy Bread covers and surrounds himself with Van Dyke Parks/Brian Wilson-like orchestral arrangements, singing sad, sad songs about suicide and dead love in his fragile warble. Strangely, this makes for a bright gem of a disc filled with 1973-AM-pop-radio-worthy jewels. --Paige La Grone

Amazon.com

Joe Pernice's former band, the Scud Mountain Boys, often dragged a kitchen table and chairs on-stage to replicate the homey feel of their spare and haunting music. Pernice's voice was lovely in that setting--his shy velvet voice floated over the stark horizon of the Scud's country-ish tunes. Here, though, he packs the stage with piano, cello, violin, tympanum, harp, trombone, and even a flugelhorn for a baroque wall of sound, and any hints of country are traded in for Bacharach. While the arrangements are beautiful, and Pernice continues to write amazing and evocative songs, his lovely wisp of a voice is hidden amid all the flowery flourishes. He used to sound lonely on the range, now he sounds lost in the forest. --Tod Nelson

Customer Reviews:

Have a slice of Bread.......2007-01-03

This is a gorgeous record full of understated, but lush orchestration and addictive pop hooks. The comparisons to early 70's lightweight rockers Bread are apt, but I liked Bread too, so that's ok. Tracks like "Monkey Suit," "Crestfallen," and "Wait to Stop" should be modern classics. I've been spinning it over and over and over in my disc exchange. Nice work!

Dreck.......2003-04-16

The Pernice Brothers penchant for sappy blandness seems to have insured their lack of success, or at least that's what one hopes. The breathy vocals and heartfelt lyrics meant to be effecting are instead off putting. Poppier and more upbeat than the music they made as Scud Mountain Boys but equally uninteresting. Avoid anything the Pernice brothers are attached to.

Brian Wilson meets the Byrds..........2001-08-25

I recently got the current Pernice Brothers album(The World Won't Listen), which I love, and when I subsequently went to see them live, they played songs from this album that were so good I had to get this record as well. I'm glad I did, because the whole album is terrific, not as great as TWWL, but not far behind either. Right from the opening notes of the first song, "Crestfallen", Joe Pernice is in total command of his melodies. What little I knew of the band before purchasing any of the records led me to believe they were more country than pop, but it's the other way around. The short track "Sick Of You" sounds like it could have come off of 'Pet Sounds', and the title track is a lovely, nuanced song that reminds me of Burt Bacharach's more elegant compositions. The record is full of memorable hooks that make you feel OK for listening to pop music. Highly recommended.

Plenty to like here........2001-07-16

On recommendation from reputable UK music magazine Uncut I gave 'Overcome By Happiness' a spin, and true to form it deserves it's glowing reviews. The Pernice Brothers are justly considered to be right up there with the likes of Lambchop, Flaming Lips, and Willard Grant Conspiracy in the resurgence of American Rock/Alt.Country, however their sound veers closer towards string-laden pop. What Pernice Brothers do well, and they do it very well, are adding lovely symphonic touches and melodic inflections which lift a good song into an airborne one. When the strings flood in two-thirds of the way through the title track and Joe Pernice sings ".. you, don't feel the waves crashing out of your eyes" the musical tsunami hits. Similarly, the repeated refrain in 'Wait to Stop', the fragile piano arrangement in 'All I Know' and opener 'Crestfallen' all achieve spine-tingling bliss. Though not every track reaches such heights, these few songs are still fine in themselves and the album nothing if not a wholly enjoyable listening experience.

Not enough superlatives to describe it.......2001-07-09

I bought this two years ago and it's never far from my CD player. There's something about the lyrics and the hook-filled music that will not let go of you once you've heard it. The Amazon.com review compares Joe Pernice to Elliot Smith, and there are some strong similarities, but unfortunately, Pernice has not yet attained the sort of public recognition that Smith has. Both write sad lyrics about lost love, rejection, and other depressing topics, both deliver them in unique voices that are not exactly beautiful but fit the songs well, and both compose music that is achingly beautiful.

There is not a bad song on this CD, but there are a few that are my all-time favorites: "Crestfallen" deals with the painful realization at the end of a love affair that things were not as one thought while the affair was still on: ("it's a long way down, when you find out that it never happened at all"). "Wait to Stop" has the line "I want to be with you so bad I feel like I'm dying, or I've died", and then at the end, repetition of the line "I'm waiting for the wait to stop" which goes on and on. "Wherein Obscurely" has the line "there were so many times I had to wake you from crying; so many times I could not make you cry", sung so hauntingly that it's enough to make you want to cry yourself, even after hearing it hundreds of times.

Tracks:

Crestfallen
Overcome by Happiness
Sick of You
Clear Spot
Dimmest Star
Monkey Suit
Chicken Wire
Wait to Stop
All I Know
Shoes and Clothes
Wherein Obscurely
Ferris Wheel

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Up the Down Escalator, and Our Time Has Passed (4 Track Version).

Customer Reviews:

Well worth the extra money.......2001-01-28

It is in my nature as a music lover and collector to find beauty in even the most mundane CD features. That may be why I disagree with others who would say that putting out the extra money for a few bonus tracks is at the very least ridiculous. Please trust me when I tell you that it's not ridiculous when you're talking about musical talents like the Pernice Brothers.

Granted, the regular CD version without the extra tracks is a wonderful compilation of songs that are a success for many reasons. But the bonus tracks on this version give people to see a side of the Brothers that surely would have otherwise gone unnoticed by the average listener. They show that even though their sound is already unique, the Pernice Borthers have the potential to create music on a much broader horizon.

Only one extra track?.......2000-06-15

This is a great album but there's no decent reason for anyone but total fanatics to buy this "extra tracks" import. There are two significant differences between this version and the domestic version. This one has one extra track ("Jimmy Coma") that is good but not great and that really does not fit in with the mood or style of the rest of the album. The other difference is that this import version features the lyrics. Are these two additions worth the rather significantly higher price? For this fan of the P-Brothers: No.

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