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What Album Did You First Become Fan Of?
Posted: Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 14:17
What album was out that first got you hooked on the avetts?
Anyone been a fan since the very first EP or when they first started performing?
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Emotionalism. It must have had 25 songs I liked on it.
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mine was country was.....there are some here that have been fans since NEMO
emotionalism time period, but live vol. 2 was the first album i became obsessed with.
definitely emotionalism.....although country was is one of my favorites.
Four Thieves Gone made me realize I had a new favorite band.
Mignonette, with a strong dose of Live Vol. 2 on the side.
Emotionalism got me hooked. But no matter the album, my first live performance made me swoon. And I haven't looked back.
Emotionalism is what I took my first nibble on.... then I bought Mignonette and that's when the fat fisherman in the row-boat yanked hard, set the hook and hauled me in. Now I am mounted on a chunk of pine in Scott's billiards room at the Avett Estate. And if you walk closely in front of me I sing At the Beach, over and over.
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Carolina Jubilee...and as always, THANKS Sal for turning me on to this band!!
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Be Kind, For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Four Thieves Gone with special attention to Left on Laura, Left on Lisa and Talk On Indolence
I hate to repeat the last two guys, but here goes. A very good friend of mine(some call him Tin Man) told me about them about two years ago. I explored all that I could on you tube, etc. The first song I really got into was Paranoia In B Flat Major. I still love that video. The first album I spent a lot of time with was A Carolina Jubilee and then Four Thieves Gone. Famous Flower of Manhattan remains one of my very favorite songs.
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"Happy's not the word, you make me free."
Mignonette was my first taste - Swept Away (Sentimental Version), specifically - but then I downloaded Four Thieves Gone and that really got my attention. Not long after that, I saw them live for the first time and promptly bought everything available.
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Mignonette first grabbed me right after it was released - been coming back ever since....
used to see them perform as Nemo back in the high school days - but didn't become a serious fan of THe Avetts til Mignonette....
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After hearing "I Would Be Sad" on the radio, I went to the record store to see what I could find. That day I picked up Emotionalism, FTG, and Mignonette. Emotionalism's the first one I really connected with, though. The rest came later.
Mignonette was the first one i gave my attention to...honeslty in some way or another i seem to have fallin inlove with them all. i am a huge dylan fan however i have to say that these guys have hit me in a way that dylan never did. i hate saying that sometimes but its the truth.
Each album seems to have a strong hold on some part of my life...its a beautiful thing
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A friend of mine got me hooked on them pretty good with four thieves gone, then a couple months later i was lucky enough to get a free in store set from the bros while they were promoting the release of emotionalism and I've been hopelessly hooked ever since!
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People don't quit playing because they grow old, people grow old because they quit playing.
The Gleam
The Gleam...then LV2...then Mignonette.
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"I spent the whole day. I wrote 'em down, but it's a shame. Tonight I'll burn the lyrics 'cause every chorus was your name.""
Four Thieves Gone... about a week after it came out, an online friend of mine suggested it. Laughed and cried to that album, too, and I'm not ashamed to admit it!
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..we hid for days like a proud pair of thieves; too sure we were right, too stubborn to leave..
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Defintitely 'Emotionalism' for me.
I bought Four Thieves Gone, Emotionalism and I And Love And You based purely on reading an Avett Brothers thread on the My Morning Jacket boards. I took what I thought was a chance by buying three albums in one go. Listening to them one after the other I rated them Emotionalism, Four Thieves Gone and then I&L&Y. I thought the first two were 5-Star albums but was a little underwhelmed by the latest album. However, on recently revisiting it I think it's a fantastic album.
This is my first post on this forum. I am so glad I read that Avett Brothers thread elsewhere. When you unexpectedly discover a band as good as this it's such a great feeling. I am listening to their albums over and over again. Nothing that I have heard or purchased recently comes close to them.
And to top it all.....within two months of discovering them they are coming to play the UK in March! I'm hugely looking forward to my first live experience.
A Carolina Jubilee. Cut some more wood for the Winter!
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Talk On Indolence was the song that made me go wow, i need more. But the first album i got was mignonette and it didnt leave cd player for a very long time.
The Gleam, "When I Drink" in particular. But I didn't run out and buy any other albums--I have no idea why--and simply listened to The Gleam over an over again for about six months. Then I saw them last October in Iowa City and was HOOKED. I've since bought most everything I can get my hands on. Emotionalism and Four Thieves Gone are now my favorites.
Country Was. Something about a banjo soothes my soul.
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Screaming my lungs out- with nothing to say...
First album I heard was Four Thieves Gone (songs were Colorshow and Talk On Indolences). I was like, yeah, this is really good. But I wasn't hooked. I listened to Die Die Die and others from Emotionalism on good ol' myspace and I was in love. Emotionalism takes the cake. Although, now that I and Love and You is an out, January Wedding has become my favorite song. Followed by Die Die Die.
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Mignonette - more specifically the first song I heard was Pretty Girl From Cedarlane... funny thing is I chased a girl named Ashley for a while like the song but I actually won and she is now my wife!!! I love you Hun!
I'm with msco and TheMourning. I'd heard them previously via my college radio station where I DJ'd when Four Thieves came out, but it was listening to The Gleam on a road trip, specifically "When I Drink" that got me. I just got hooked on the melodies and lyrical cleverness.
After that it was a full charge into Mignonette and Live Vol. 2, and the rest is history.
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If it's the Beaches was the first song I ever heard, and that's the only one I listened to for, like, 4 months. Then my best friend showed me this video he found on youtube of "these crazy dudes with long ass beards and overalls with a stand up bass all crammed in a van singing" it was the Avett's with Will You Return. I then purchased The Gleam, Emotionalism, and Mignonette. I showed Emotionalism a ton of favoritism and would always listen to Swept Away (sentimental) since it would play in order. After I saw them live for the first time I immediately collected everything they released I could keep my hands on. So Emotionalism really spoke to me, but after seeing them my heart was stolen and I dove in.
I hate myself for living close to TAB and never hearing of them till my cousin moved in with us. She's known TAB since about 4 years ago and is just NOW telling me about them about 3 months ago.
She first introduced me to "if its the beaches" and "Salina" but I got my hands on some of their cds and Emotionalism is my favorite. Not for just that great banjo in the songs. But the cover art is so nice to look at. Currently drawing it for fun. But now I just can't choose a favorite cd....