Advertising Space [Explicit Lyrics]

Advertising Space [Explicit Lyrics]

Track Listings

1. Younger Years

2. Hands that Bathe You

3. Allen Baby

4. We Call These Things

5. Anthem

6. This Life

7. Clean

8. Take a Chain to Me

9. But You, You're in Love with Everything Around Y

10. Jerusalem

11. Advertising Space

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Released in 1999, ADVERTISING SPACE marked Holcombe's recorded debut, as well as his first release on his own Napoleon Records.

Included are eleven songs of jazz-inflected folk-pop which evoke Jeff Buckley's meandering song structures and Ani DiFranco's strong, slashing rhythms and sharp lyrics. This album is definitely the product of an angstier, younger Holcombe and still resonates today with an intensity that moves many Holly Waller fans to crown it their "favorite Holcombe CD Ever!"

The songs range from the acoustic, guitar and vox songcraft of This Life to grander, suprisingly lush and layered Anthem. Suprising in that Holcombe self produced this album in his bedroom on tweaked-out computer gear during college, roping in various musician friends as school schedules allowed. These friends included drummer Brian Devendorf, bassist Aaron Dessner, and guitarist Bryce Dessner, all of whom have reformed into the current rock band "The National," as well as multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Landsverk, who most recently collaborated on the writing and production of Holcombe's latest album, TROUBLED TIMES.

Any fan of TROUBLED TIMES or EXTRAVAGANT GESTURE will surely appreciate ADVERTISING SPACE. A familiarity with all three reveals an artistic progression that might be described as a steady decline away from technical over-achievement towards a more ephemeral, spaced-out sacred moment- but we're only guessing.

Advertising Space,Holcombe Waller,Napoleon Records

Advertising Space Pt.2
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Instructions would be nice

Great addition to regular album...

Advertising Space Pt.2
Robbie Williams
Manufacturer: EMI/Chrysalis
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music
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Advertising Space Pt.1

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ASIN: B000CCB136
Release Date: 2005-12-19

Tracks:

Advertising Space
Twist
Don't Say No
Video - Making Of "Advertising Space" Video
Photo Gallery

Customer Reviews:

Instructions would be nice.......2006-03-16

How do you see the video? I've put this in my computer and have not figured out how to view the video.

Great addition to regular album..........2006-01-02

Nice addition for any RW fan. Another plus is the video since in the states it's difficult to find RW's videos anywhere.

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Unparalleled

Advertising Space
Holcombe Waller
Manufacturer: Napoleon Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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Troubled Times
Extravagant Gesture

ASIN: B0006866C2
Release Date: 1999-06-01

Tracks:

Younger Years
Hands that Bathe You
Allen Baby
We Call These Things
Anthem
This Life
Clean
Take a Chain to Me
But You, You're in Love with Everything Around Y
Jerusalem
Advertising Space

Album Description

Released in 1999, ADVERTISING SPACE marked Holcombe's recorded debut, as well as his first release on his own Napoleon Records.

Customer Reviews:

Unparalleled.......2005-10-05

Holcombe Waller is absolutely a musical genius. His otherworldly voice, soaring melodies, and poetic lyrics all come together in this brilliant album. It's one of my top 5 of all time. Younger Years, Anthem, Clean, and Jerusalem are my favorite tracks, but they are literally all amazing.

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"The image is one thing - the human being another!"

Advertising Space Pt.1
Robbie Williams
Manufacturer: EMI/Chrysalis
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000CCS6SE
Release Date: 2005-12-13

Tracks:

Advertising Space
Family Coach

Customer Reviews:

"The image is one thing - the human being another!".......2006-01-21

It's just wonderful when artists reflect on other artists. From the first glance only the single "Advertising Space" is a standard balad, picking out a theme which is not too likely to be thought about by the average Robbie fan: the life and suffering of Elvis Presley:

The "Advertising Space" that Presley provided during more than 20 years of his work may well have been the first of its kind: a rocket like rise in the Fifties based upon electrifying life performances in countless concerts throughout the South was being pushed onto national television after a change in managment. Here, the unconventional singing style and gyrations did not only make for female ekstasy but also white-bread critique and censorship. The rebel image and the ragtag reputation of the new music seemingly forshadowed an impending drop of sales. As a consequence there was an unprecedented attempt to market a new all singing, dancing and fistfighting Hollywood-image, appealing to the whole family. An image that, in the movies, was perfectly controllable and readily sellable at the box office. For the artist on the other hand the movies soon bacame an embarrassment and the corresponding songs a burden. Perennial contracts over products he felt ashamed of and a personal background that made him a selfless and obedient compliant, allowed for maximum exploitation of the person and led to maximum personal catastrophe. Well knowing that he was not being taken serious, disillusionment and addiction to prescription drugs gained ground. The terrific comeback was to be followed by another aggressive sell out of the image and once more resulted in disenchantment, boredom and more drug abuse.

Robbie Williams has managed to put out a musically rather proven, but in content quite inventive and sparkling single. The lyrics refer to the unrecognised sensitivity, vulnerability and heteronomy of Elvis Presley as a character, e.g. by telling us about his attempt to regain some sort of recognition by acquiring police and secret service badges from President Nixon ("the man through Watergate and Vietnam"), after he had become a joke in Hollywood. But everyone seemed to be more convinced of the publicity value of the whole idea than of Presleys sincere intentions ("D'you think the CIA did [give a damn]?"). Robbie Williams perceptively introduces us to a life of a great and creative artist, who inflamed himself and the world ("in your eyes the world was burning") that, eventually, was carelessly tossed away on merchandise and uncharitable sales concepts. The chorus points out the inherent irony of far outclassing his heroes commercially (Brando as the idol of the young Presley), without ever coming close to them actisticly, or merely being able to cope with his success. Concerning the music the history of sell out and ridiculousness of his work repeated itself: Despite the unquestioned impact of his music the variety of the material not only seperates critics from fans but even devides the fans ("we're still fighting over everything you left behind"), i.e. along the lines that distinguishes the Fifties from the Sixties and the Seventies. At the very end and in physically and aesthetically bad condition - which is the blueprint for today's caricature - Presley was nothing more than a shadow of his former self, sometimes disgustedly spitting out the lines the audience ceaselessly wanted to hear!

"Advertising Space" sheds light on the individual costs of massive success: big stars - including Robbie Williams - lead a largley public life. There is a general danger of overassesing the opinions and definitions of the masses, and losing one's own concept and control of life - especially when the artist is sensitive. Elvis Presley was such a man. Being aware of the fact, how far the flimsy comedies where from what he had set out to do, he even apologised for his movies ("please be gentle, I'm still learning"). And in a tragic and self-destructive way he was too intelligent not to understand how commercial success can block your way and prevent you from following more ambitious dreams of your own. He realised: "I'm sick of being Elvis Presley!"

Good to see that within the limits of his own "Advertising Space" Robbie Wiliams - who was stuck in more than one crisis himself - has found enough freedom for reflective lyrics: "The image is one thing - the human being another! ... It's very hard to live up to the image!" This is what Presley once said and Williams fully understood. In the eyes of many the two of them may well be laughing stocks, that's because those people don't take a closer look!

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