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Release date: Tue, 09/19/2006
Label: Columbia
Reviews: 54
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Re: The Gleam (EP)
I love it!
Liz, Kirby, Ruiz
If It's The Beaches
just shows how flexible their musical talent is.
My favorite album
I love the Avett Brothers and all their albums but this one is by far my favorite. If its the Beaches is musical perfection.
Great EP
"The Gleam" really captures the band at their most somber. The tracks nicely compliment the band's more upbeat work.
endless talent
when i drink is awesome to watch on youtube, if its the beaches is a masterpiece
Believe Me, I Have A System...
Some might look at the three stars and think "is he crazy? This album is great!" Well, I am not saying it's not a great album. Simply put, every Avett release is great to me, some are great, some are beyond great, some are awe-inspiring, some are other-worldly. The Gleam has a few tracks that are timelessly unforgettable, others seem ordinary for the Avett's. Not that "ordinary Avett" is ordinary on the grand scale, because their "ordinary" is everyone else's genius.
The strongest songs to me are:
- "If It's The Beaches" - This song is an unforgettable one, and probably in my top-ten of favorite Avett tunes. The story of loss is conveyed through the feelings of a man who will literally do anything to prevent it. You're left thinking "well, did she take him up on the deal?" I guess we may never know, although if you listen to "I Would Be Sad" the situation is referenced, but that song is about loss so she probably left.
- "Find My Love" - the line: "love gets lost" is so true and primeval that you sit and think "well, I guess that's right". The song is heartbreaking, but at the end you think there's nothing more you can do but let someone find you love, you can't actively do anything else.
The album is a really great piece of work, but the follow up (Gleam II) takes the concept of the series to a new level. I guess I have to appreciate this one as the pioneer of things to come...and what a foundation it was!
when I drink
very accurate
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When i drink!!!
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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?
Lovely collection of songs
Yardsale, while not this albums best, let alone that of the whole discography, is still seriously underrated. Just listen to the lyrics.
If its the beaches
beautiful
....thank you....
Breathtaking
Find my love and if it's the beaches are amazing songs. Lyrics are wonderful and very true.
If It's The Beaches...
Great opening line, really hits home to me. They always have the right songs for the right moments in my life. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...
Opened the door
Used a lot of songs of this to get people hooked.
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Fire laser pants at will!
Fire laser pants at will!
if its the beaches
I went to the MOMA show a couple years ago with very little knowledge of the avetts. I had just been dumped after a 4 year relationship and my brother wanted to get me out of the house. With the heartbreak still so fresh I was a little shaky that night. When they launched into "If tis the beaches" and I heard the words it hit me so hard that I cried for the firast time in as long as I can remember. Even my brother didnt know what to do.He hadnt seen me like that since we were little kids. I completely lost it. No other song has ever affected me so deeply and spoken to me like that one did that night.It will forever hold a special place for me.
I wanna have friends.That I can trust.That love me for the man I've become not the man that I was.
Incredible
So great. I love the Gleam series. When I Drink and If It's the Beaches are perfect!
It's not the chase that I love - it's me following you.
Sanguine
Hadn't paid much attention to this album in the past year almost but today remembered just how much this album means to me. The first few lines of Sanguine, the acoustic guitar... it all touches me deeper than any other song I think I've ever heard in my entire life. Find My Love is another that will always stick with me and define a very significant period in my life. I can't believe I let this album go unheard for so long. It's perfect.
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happy's not the word, you make me free...
happy's not the word, you make me free...
If Its the Beaches
The first time i heard this song i couldnt have been happier. As all of the records, amazing straight through.
All around amazing.
it seems like
every time i hear a new avett bros. record, i think to myself and say, 'damn, they did it again.' i especially love 'when i drink'
Amazing lyrics
If It's the Beaches is one of my favorite songs. When I drink is pretty awesome as well.
And in the end, the love you give, is equal to the love you make.
simple but beautiful
every song is amazing. i love this album and it got me through some tough times last year.
"a woman's heart runs on gasoline"
Great song writing.
If It's the Beaches is one of the best songs of all time.
...The Sunday Morning Rehab Show...
.............. on WQFS 90.9 fm..............
It’s more fun than a week at Betty Ford.
Great Album
It is a pretty solid album, I just wish that there were a few more songs on it.
One of these days, yes one of these days...
when I go to a live show, I will get to hear Sanguine live...my favorite song! Maybe 6.19 or 6.20
Thank you TAB!
"Kill the doubt that strangles myself worth. Paint the picture that I swore I heard."
rediscovery
i just recently went back and listened to this one a few times... if it's the beaches is still so good, as well as all of the others...
the one that stuck out to me on this go 'round was Find My Love... so poignant and gut wrenching...
Peace,
Worth
~~~Roll Tide!~~~
its true
Not gonna lie, I cried when I first heard "If its the beaches"
i was a one line wonder in my own love song
The Fullest
Part of getting the most out of your life (which is sort of what I think the Avetts mostly sing about,) is accepting and dealing with the tragedies as well as the high points. Some parts of life suck and it can be a hard, bitter old world, but there can be a beauty in melancholy and the sad and the hard make the joys that much bigger. That's part of what I think is going on in a lot of the songs on this album.
Yard Sale is my least favorite song on the album (though keep in mind that my least favorite Avett song is still far cry above much of the music out there,) but it's grown on me over time. The others are handsdown beautiful. I look forward continued explorations of the Gleam.
Temporary is my time, Ain't nothin on this world that's mine, Except the will I found to carry on.
Free is not your right to choose, It's answering what's asked of you, To give the love you find until it's gone.
A good start
I love the concept of the Gleam series, but I wish this one had a little more polish on it. It seems a bit rushed and the songs just don't stick with you as much as the second gleam. Overall a good record but not my favorite.
Team Avett #82
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my first
This is the first album of theirs that I had ever heard--I love the songs and all of the memories and peope (skin and bones) that are now tied to it forever.
amy
The Gleam is bright
Love this series, hope there is more to follow the first two. The Gleam has no faults, yet again nothing bad can be said.
When I Drink
Heard this song live, cracked up when Scott does the la la la la's... Wish they would have played it at the DMB concert
-Wence-
so wondrful.
i love this ep. If It's the Beaches has always always always been a favorite of mine.
My First Love
The first Avett album I bought and dismissed rather quickly, but that didn't last. Upon returning to the album from time to time I found it harder and harder to take out of my cd player, thanks to Sanguine and it was all uphill from there. This little album segued to getting every Avett song available at the time almost as fast as my original dismissal. Every song, every day, I still listen. I once took a cruise on my bike (bicycle not motorcycle- I'm not cool) and had my monster head-phones on, and turned Backwards With Time on the highest volume and felt high, like I just smoked a joint ( I don't smoke weed anymore- no motorcycle, no weed, not cool).
If its the Beaches
is one of the most touching songs of all times. I catch myself singin this one in tha shower.....
Amazing
Great start to "The Gleam" series!
Backwards With Time and It's The Beaches are among the best of the Avett Brothers songs - due to genuine ideas and instrumentals natural to the Avett Brothers.
"Which is the poison, and which is the wine? The scent and the colors are so much alike. And how much of each will it take to decide when you're at the table alone?" - Find My Love
"There's one way to live and one way to die."
Backwards With Time
yes. I feel this way also.
mmm
The lyrics to If It's the Beaches, are the cutest...definitley one of my favorites.
Brilliant
If it's the Beaches is the most beautiful love song I have ever heard. All the songs on this album are tru and pure, what more could you want.
Honesty
When I drink and If its the beaches are two songs that I can very much identify with. I wonder if they bros have lost as many loves as they have in their songs
Scott and Seth at their best, in my opinion.
It doesn't get any better than this. As much as I love their live shows, the broke-down, simplistic beauty in every song on this EP is unmatchable. As much as I loved the second installment of the Gleam series, it doesn't compare to this one. My favorite EP of all time.
Nothing's good because nothing lasts. And all that comes, it comes here to pass.
I would voice my pain, but the change wouldn't last.
All that comes, it comes here to pass.
:)
"Backwards With Time" has been and continues to be one of my favorite Avett Brothers songs.
if it's the beaches
beautiful.
Ridiculously Good
I especially love Sanguine, When I Drink, Yardsale, Backwards with Time, If it's the Beaches, and Find My Love.
Tell me you can skip the day, and head up with me to the mountains.
Awesome
So very good.
this album will never be at any of my yard sales
This was a great album that i really wasn't expecting much out of. I was very pleasantly surprised the first time i heard it, and yard sale has become one of my all time favorites.
Absolutely Brilliant
This album embodies all of what I love about the Avett Brothers. They take simple melodies and astounding lyrics to create six great songs, some of which are their best yet. "When I Drink" and "If It's The Beaches" are Avett classics that never get old.
First of many to come!
This is the first installment of The Gleam Series... i love what they did with this... The Gleam Series is home to their more heartfelt material... This first enstallment is only Seth and Scott Avett... but it is an amazing album.... Backwards with Time and If its the Beaches are some of the best song the boys have written....
Well Locust, Mount Pleasant, Concord.... LETS GOOO!
A solid EP
While I can't give a 5, because I'm not fond of "Yardsale," I think this EP is about as good as any EP I've heard. A lot of EPs are throw away, but this bears multiple repeats.
We are the true believers.
Some of my favorites are here
Out of the entire catalog, I'd say almost half of my top ten come solely from this EP. It's not something I'm always in the mood for, but when I am it cuts to the core.
The best birthday gift!
The Gleam came out on my birthday, and was truly one of the best gifts I bought myself. I love "When I Drink" no truer words were ever written about a crappy reason to lose a day of living." If It's The Beaches" WILL ALWAYS BE A BEAUTIFUL HEARTFELT FAVORITE.
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