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| Genre/Form: | Popular music |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Musical Score |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Beck; Jody Rosen |
| ISBN: | 193807338X : 9781938073380 |
| OCLC Number: | 800034362 |
| Notes: | Title from cover. Mainly for voice and piano; some for piano solo. Some of the songs have guitar chord diagrams, others have ukelele chord diagrams. Twenty songs presented as individual pieces of sheet music; music sheets, plus a separate preface by Beck Hansen and an introduction by Jody Rosen, packaged in a hard-bound folio. |
| Description: | 1 score (20 folded sheets) : color illustrations ; 32 cm |
| Contents: | Don't act like your heart isn't hard -- I'm down -- Saint dude -- Do we? We do -- Eyes that say "I love you" -- Now that your dollar bills have sprouted wings -- Please leave a light on when you go -- Rough on rats -- Old Shanghai -- Sorry -- Why did you make me care? -- Heaven's ladder -- America, here's my boy -- Just noise -- We all wear cloaks -- Mutilation rag -- The wolf is on the hill -- Title of this song -- The last polka -- Last night you were a dream. |
Abstract:
In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck's latest project comes in an almost-forgotten form--twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with full-color, heyday-of-home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case, Song Reader is an experiment in what an album can be at the end of 2012--an alternative that enlists the listener in the tone of every track, and that's as visually absorbing as a dozen gatefold LPs put together. The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you'd expect from their author, but if you want to hear "Do We? We Do," or "Don't Act Like Your Heart Isn't Hard," bringing them to life depends on you.
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"[A] visually stunning and captivating album... For anyone with an ear (or an eye) for music, this album is the perfect opportunity to abandon your seats, join the stage and become a participant rather than just a spectator."--"Zink Magazine" "Visually sumptuous ... A bold artistic challenge and a madcap creative gauntlet in a pop-culture landscape that favors instant gratification."--"American Way" Read more...
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