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David Gray - Sell, Sell, Sell Audio CD

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David Gray Band: David Gray
Title: Sell, Sell, Sell
Rating:
Release Date: 2000-09-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Faster, Sooner, Now 2: Late Night Radio 3: Sell, Sell, Sell 4: Hold on to Nothing 5: Everytime 6: Magdalena 7: Smile 8: Only the Lonely 9: What Am I Doing Wrong? 10: Gutters Full of Rain 11: Forever Is Tomorrow Is Today 12: Folk Song

Lucky find for me
I normally don't buy CDs unless I really, really like the music, and I knew I had to get this one, even if I had to buy secondhand. I discovered this gent's music on Pandora. The first track (Faster, Sooner, Now) is worth the price of admission. I really enjoy Gray's no-holds barred vocal style and the slower songs on this CD are also easy on the ears. I can't remember when I enjoyed "discovering" an artist as much as I have this guy. . . reminds me how I felt the first time I heard XTC. .


An album surpassd only by "White Ladder".......
I wasn't disapointed. After hearing the amazing sounds of "A New Day At Midnight", I just had to try his other albums. Although not the most popular of his albums, Sell, Sell, Sell manages to be bitter, hopeful, happy, sad and all things in between, whilst still keeping a nice flow and pace. Its the kind of cd that takes you on a tour of your own emotions, and seems to make sense of them at the end.
With superb lyrics (The way Gray uses the most unexpected of similes is often very effective), and great tunes. This is a must for anyone who only even remotely likes David Gray.


Trying to Make Sense of the Rain
There was no rain to make sense of, but plenty coming out of the stereo: "I'm delirious with chaos/I'm wonderstruck with awe," it said. I just got back from a midnight drive alone around my neighborhood, blasting this album yet again as the humid summer air pulled itself through the car's open windows like an endless quilt of silk. "And there?s daylight in my fingers/But it?s snowing in my bones," it carried on, "Been sucking on the echo/Of a thousand telephones/And when we meet again/We?ll be strangers. " An exquisite loneliness gathers around the words like a nightfall. Gray's tongue wraps around every "r" as though the letter were a ripe and delicious fruit; his lyrics striking such a sincere chord as to be chiseled into my bones. It feels like the songs turn me inside-out and tell me what they see; like they were being sung from somewhere inside myself: maybe the hollow where all the rain goes. I don?t know. But Mr. Gray obviously does know, and as song after well-wrought song on "Sell, Sell, Sell" proves, he also has the talent to transform that wisdom into an unusually engaging and immediate art. I start to understand what William Blake meant when he wrote that "wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy. " No one came to buy this album upon its release back in 1995; and in the liner notes there?s even a picture of a young David Gray shopping in a grocery store with a T-Shirt on that says "wisdom" in bold red print across the chest, as if to say "funny you should mention Blake. I was just thinking the same thing!" I even start to imagine that Blake had David in mind. After all, Blake too was only "like a million/Others before/trying to make sense of the rain. " If this is what it sounds like when David Gray tries to make sense of the rain, oh, how I hope he never succeeds! .


Wonderstruck with Awe!
Gray live, as I did at MSG 1-31-03, you immediately want to hear every song on every cd he has ever made. As I read someone say in another review, once you see Mr. he is such a powerful artist, both on a stereo and in person. Amazingly crisp and heartfelt,he is accentuated to the tenth power when the stage lights are shining on him, and he's wiggling around, his eyes incredibly focused, his head unable to stay still.

In somewhat of opposition to the reviewer, who wrote a glowing and intelligent review, I bought the sell,sell,sell cd before the concert. After 20 seconds into faster,stronger,now, i was hooked on it. Ok, only one song. Late Night Radio,same feeling. Then the title track. So on and so on. I get the feeling that David Gray was jaded somewhat by the business and the intervention of non-musicians into the music realm. A lot of songs deal with that underlying theme, that people are expecting something out of him, and he's taking the simple man's route. But he is not a simple man, as shown in poignantly gentle songs like, Hold Onto Nothing and (my favorite) Only the Lonely.

So, like most Americans out there, I was introduced to David Gray via Babylon,and White Ladder. When New Day at Midnight came out, it was all I listened to for a while, so I had, what David Gray was fretting about somewhat on this album, a preconceived expectation for what David Gray was suppose to sound like. And, maybe I'm a hypocrite, but I probably do not give this album 5 stars for that reason. I feel bad for that.

I want to say this album is essential for any David Gray fan to have, and it certainly is, but I think someone who doesn't know the artist that well should get this also. It blends slow, meloncholic tunes with fast-paced upbeat tempos, the lyrics usually staying on a sadder theme, but at times hope and promise. It is fun to listen to this album and follow it with White Ladder, seeing the difference in style and album fluidity, yet the similarity of song structure and lyrical themes.

I adore this artist, if he is anywhere within 1,000 miles of you, you need to see him. Buy this album, buy all his albums, and you'll see where music is going right.


this album is horrificly overated
. . It is absolutely horrible. I really do not understand at all why people like it so much. The songs are annoying, unoriginal, and just plain boring. This is just extremely uncreative pop rock featuring a not too good band and annoying singing. Maybe you'll like this album, but just listen to it before buying.


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