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VÖ-Datum: Die, 07/27/2004
Bezeichnung: Ramseur Records
Reviews: 86
Tracks
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Titel
Durschnitt
1
Swept Away (Sentimental Version)
4.4
2
Nothing Short of Thankful
4.4
3
The New Love Song
4.5
4
At the Beach
4.6
5
Signs
4.5
6
Hard Worker
4.2
7
Letter to a Pretty Girl
4.2
8
Please Pardon Yourself
4.8
9
Pretty Girl at the Airport
4.6
10
Pretty Girl From Cedarlane
4.6
11
Causey Commentary
4
12
One Line Wonder
4.7
13
The Day That Marvin Gaye Died
4.1
14
SSS
4.6
15
Swept Away
4.7
16
A Gift for Melody Anne
4.3
17
Complainte D'Un Matelot Mourant (Lament of a Dying Sailor)
4
18
Salvation Song
4.6
19
Signs
4.4
20
Laser Pants
4.3
Reviews für diesen Album
Re: Mignonette
I love TAB's earlier albums. You can hear their raw energy and their raw talent. This album is no exception. I love the sentimental version of Swept Away and both their rendition of Signs and their father's version. The story behind how they came to find Signs is also so sweet.
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This album is so fantastic. Every song is a gem. The tremendous impact of the hope that resonates in A Gift For Melody Lane and then leads into Lament of a Dying Sailor reflecting the terror of the human condition is amazing. Just saying.
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a live youtube video of pretty girl from cedar lane was my first experience with the avett brothers and the start of my obsession with their music. i do my own version of the song with banjo, kickdrum, harmonica, and singing.
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Nothing short of thankful that the Avett Brothers share their musical talents with us. I love this album too. Swept Away, Salvation Song, Signs, One Line Wonder, Nothing Short of Thankful are just the tip of the iceberg. This album, as all of the others, is solid from top to bottom. Again, these guys really know how to touch the listener. I think that's why their fans are so dedicated. It's like they write the songs just for you.
RE: Mignonette
If I had to sum up everything I know about The Avett Brothers in two words, it'd be: Salvation Song. That track is amazing. And hearing it live is even better. Also, A Pretty Girl at the Airport is one of my favorites.
My heavy head is full of debris, sometimes I wish this city would sink in the sea. --ATAL
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I agree with Kinder....this album is poignantly delicious....amazingly touching...and an introduction to a new world for me personally...thank you again for letting me in <3
FOREVER A FAN!!!
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love, love, love. great artists is all I can say about them.
Absolutely Awesome
Probably my favorite Avett release, closely followed by Emotionalism. What can I say. Almost every song is wonderful. I could do without the talking towards the end, but MY LORD, are these guys talented songwriters. This album proved to their fans that they aren't a one trick pony singing endless bluegrass covers. No way. These guys can write about life and love with such poignancy and depth that hasn't been seen in the music world in a long time. If you don't have this recording, you MUST GET IT. Seriously, go buy it right now.
Turning Point
When this album came it confirmed that nothing would be the same. There was brilliance in every song. Honesty filled the lyrics and perfection filled the sound. No one can prove that any album ever sounded better.
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"I have worries to bring to the sea", oh lord
What is important ,what's really important, am I not to know by name?
Evolving Sound
This album reminds me that TAB has always been a band that is willing to experiment with their sound. I love how it is more polished than their previous albums, but still has that rough edge to it.
at the beach
At the Beach is such a fun song , I hope you perform it at Mountain Jam . Swept away is just beautiful.
Wow
Could there be another album with so many fantastic songs?! I'd like to find words to use that others haven't, but I am also stuck at saying how wonderful wonderful wonderful this album is. My favorite must be A Gift For Melody Anne, with Swept Away a close second!
Let me add a little variety: HVALA PUNO!
It means thank you so much in Croatian. Yes, it's true you have Croatians loving your music!
A Little of A Lot
Mignonette offered us an early look at what was to come from The Avett Brothers, both figuratively and literally. The songs on this album started to show the deep, emotional, lovesick side of Scott and Seth and the lyrics became increasingly introspective and provocative. On the literal end, we actually hear a song on an album in it's most raw stages, "Causey Commentary" features Scott singing the bare foundation of "One Line Wonder" as Seth records it on the side of Route 2 in North Carolina. This serves as a microcosm of the album where we start to get the treat of exploring the hearts and minds of the Avett Brothers.
My favorites:
- "One Line Wonder" - This is quintessential Avett. The banjo dominates the melody and the lyrics explore a heartsick and lonely, but seemingly content person. Referring to oneself as a "one-line-wonder" in the sphere of love is a hard thing to admit, but a very real emotion.
- "Swept Away" and "Swept Away (Sentimental Version)" - Such a simple love song, yet the lyrics are so well-crafted that it inspires anyone to try and write down their own version. The song does not try and trick listeners with metaphors and symbology, but instead presents the joys of love on proverbial shirtsleeve. On the sentimental version an appearance by Bonnie Avett adds a sweet, sweet harmony to the mix.
- "Please Pardon Yourself" - Seth has been quoted as saying this is a song about "how everything's gonna be alright", and truer words were never spoken. The title alone suggests forgiveness, and throughout the song we learn that forgiveness isn't just for other people but for ourselves too. The song is one of many that uplift listeners and refresh the soul
- "Pretty Girl From Cedar Lane" - This song is a great diddy about false love. It is a very fresh and relaxed take on the very serious subject of lovesickness. Blame is all but throw on "Ashley" and the song is a stabbing reality to the girl who thinks love is a fleeting plaything.
Mignonette is a very transitional piece, leading us away from the extremely raw and bare nature of "The Avett Brothers" and "Country Was" to the soon-coming masterpiece of "Emotionalism". It is a wonderful blessing to experience the transition.
oh yea
some of my favs
Great Album
If your new to Avett, give this one some time. It will grow on you eventually as you listen to it more and more.
Favortie #2 or #1
Like i said on the Emotionalism album review i cant decide on which album i like the most
Great Album
This is a great album! One of my favorite parts is when someone got sprayed with Turkey s*** ha ha ha ha.
Favorite TAB Record
Their best to date. Been in my car's cd player for 1/2 a year straight.
My favorite album
Still my favorite album. I was introduced to The Avetts at Merlesfest. It was the first time I had ever really listened to bluegrass music, and my ex wife brought me to the festival.... I have to admit I was apprehensive to say the least, but on the communal bus ride from the free parking lot up to the show, the brothers were crooning over the old crackly bus speakers and even then they sounded great. It was a trip that started me on my love of bluegrass, or as The Avett brothers sing, Swept Me away.
On top of Mt. Washington
Can I Say Favorite?
No I cannot because I love them all dearly. Though songs life swept away and salvation song put this record in the running. It never stays out of my cd player for very long and it never will.
It started it all....
I must admit i skipped Swept Away on first listen, but what followed blew me away. I became an instant fan after hearing At The Beach for the first time. This album IS The Avett Brothers to me. How they will forever live in my head.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth--Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth--Walt Whitman
GOOD GOOD GOOD
Nothing short of thankful is one of my favorite songs!
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But their good times come with prices
And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone's expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?
But their good times come with prices
And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone's expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?
keeps on going
thank you for making at the beach
First collection of Avett Brothers songs where I completely love every song.
And Salvation Song is a classic...
forgot the stars!
At the beach
greatness!
Could be my favorite...
To say I have a favorite album could be a stretch, for everything the Brothers put out is inspiring. This was the first album I got however, so it holds a strong connection. Salvation Song to One Line Wonder, fantastic album
nothing short of thankful
One of my favorite songs. This is a great album in whole.
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I'm so surprised to find more, Always surprised to find more.
I'm so surprised to find more, Always surprised to find more.
Probably my favorite....
I love all their releases, but I think Mignonette maybe my favorite.
It's not as raw as their first two LP's, but not as produced as Emotionalism.
My First and Favorite
My introduction to the Avett Brothers and still my favorite CD of theirs. Stylistically diverse, mixing the raucous and upbeat (“Nothing Short of Thankful”, “Hard Worker”) with the gorgeous and tender (“The New Love Song”, “Swept Away (Sentimental Version)"). Includes songs (“At The Beach”, “Please Pardon Yourself”) that remain staples of their live show to this day and also contains the prettiest of the pretty girl songs, “Pretty Girl at the Airport.” Climaxes with the anthemic “Salvation Song”, the clearest statement of purpose ever penned by a band.
In a radio interview in October 2004, Scott explained the meaning of Mignonette:
“Mignonette is named after a book that our father turned us on to called “A Custom of the Sea.” Mignonette is a flower that looks much like a weed but has a very, very sweet smell. We’ve been brought up to believe that if the car was fast and ran pure and clean, that it was a lot better than the car that looked good and ran so so. So with that in mind you get the name and it applied to us in that way. The way we tried to apply it in the record, in the story it’s the name of the ship that goes down off the coast of Africa in the late 1800s and four men are faced with a decision. The custom of the sea means when you’re in a life raft, you draw lots. Whoever picks the shortest one in the moment of dying, in the moment of starving, gets eaten. In the story, the youngest who was drinking sea water was dying, he had sealed his fate. Tom Dudley, the captain, made the decision that we’re going to kill him, we’re not going to draw lots, it’s the right thing to do. They were discovered I believe it was 29 or 25 days later, they ate him on the 23rd day. When faced with the decision to tell the truth or not and with all the room in the world to get rid of whatever was left and say the body went down with the ship, the Mignonette, he said we tell the truth. The truth will save us, even if it hangs us, it’s the right thing to do. The way we try to apply it is hopefully we’re writing songs with truth that back them up. Hopefully in our songs, we’re using truth, even if it’s not a true story, it’s a true emotion, something with truth. We can’t claim to be perfect or great in this and we’re very young to know much. But we’re trying and it’s more about what we’re aspiring to be.”
First album I bought
This is the one I try to start people off with when they are looking to buy an album. Also swept away (sentimental version) makes me think of my wife when we were 18 at dead shows.
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Fire laser pants at will!
Fire laser pants at will!
at the beach
i drove people crazy one week from whistling this song so much. they would look at me really serious and annoyed and i would just laugh because i really couldn't help myself. it was stuck really nice. haha.
And they may pay us off in fame,
But that is not why we came.
And if it compromises truth then we will go.
salvation.......
Loved this one since the first listen. The one song I was dying to hear in Richmond was Salvation and they closed the show with it. Made it even better show than it already was
I wanna have friends.That I can trust.That love me for the man I've become not the man that I was.
Mignonette-
Might be my favorite of all albums.
SSS and Salvation Song are two of my ALL TIME FAVORITES.
I could listen to them on repeat from now untiol the end of time.
I'll see you in the morning time.
Three words...
Please Pardon Yourself! (among many other classics)
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***ScreamiN' my luNgs out with NothiN' to say***
Let the music do the talking.
My words can't do this album justice. Just listen, you'll see what I mean.
It's not the chase that I love - it's me following you.
thrilled
i was so thrilled to have 20 new songs to listen to and love...
and i did.
god this was amazing album.
Outstanding
love this one too.....
another album from the avett brothers that totally kicks ass. like all of them....
SHARING IS CARING
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happy's not the word, you make me free...
happy's not the word, you make me free...
sharing is caring
This is the album I share with the folks I meet that don't know what they're missin'! It never fails to bring them back beggin' for more Avett goodness! The best Avett Brothers album by far!
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happy's not the word, you make me free...
happy's not the word, you make me free...
This is love
I'm in love.
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The Condons
The Condons
Two BIG Thumbs Up!
This is my favorite Avett's album. It is the one that hooked me! Thank you to my sweet husband who loaned this to me when we first started dating! It helped me through many of my long summer travels.
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Crowning Achievement
I ultimately believe that the boys have grown with time and their later songwriting is extremely interesting, however this album is it for me. Its the first one I heard and I have an attachment to it like no other. All the songs are solid works of art on a stand alone basis. "Please Pardon Yourself" was and likely always will be my favorite song.
first avett album i ever listened too...
and it changed my life forever. i have said that "emotionalism" got me addicted but this was my first listen and has become my favorite. all the pretty girl songs are amazing and you can't help but laugh about the "turkey s***" stuff.
"a woman's heart runs on gasoline"
My favorite Avett album
By far my favorite album by the Super Avett Brothers
YESS
At the Beach is awesome.. i love playing that acoustic solo when i listen to this song.
Pretty Girl at the Airport
this song is one of my favorites... im revisiting it and im still in love.
Team Avett #68
"You can say bless your heart before anything... like Bless your heart, you're a Dumbass... "- Jim Avett
At the Beach
This song gets me excited for summertime when it's the dead of winter and 20 degrees below zero (with the wind chill)
amy