Additional Information about Home - Deep Blue Something (CD) Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2007 Muze Inc. All rights reserved. Track listing     1. Gammer Gerten's Needle     2. Breakfast At Tiffany's   3. Halo     4. Josey     5. A Water Prayer   6. Done   7. Song To Make Love To   8. The Kandinsky Prince   9. Home 10. Red Light 11. I Can Wait 12. Wouldn't Change A Thing Details Distributor: Universal Distribution Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: DDD Album notes Deep Blue Something: Toby Pipes (vocals, acoustic, electric & lap steel guitars, keyboards); Todd Pipes (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, bass); Kirk Tatom (acoustic & electric guitars, piano, organ, bass, background vocals); John Kirtland (drums, percussion). Producers: David Castell, Deep Blue Something. Engineers: Greg Ellenwood, David Castell. Recorded at Alley Cat Studios, Denton, Texas and RSVP Studios, Dallas, Texas. Sounding like a final nail in the coffin of the grunge revolution, Deep Blue Something's major-label debut is a study in easy melodic upliftment. Rather than overpowering the listener, the songs ride waves of jangly, alterna-rock guitars and quaint, positive sentiments, settling themselves in the deep recesses of the mind, like nuggets of caramel still stuck between one's teeth long after the candy has been digested. And just like the caramel, songs like the hit single "Breakfast At Tiffany's" remain sweet long after all other flavor has been lost. Though bassist/vocalist Todd Pipes claims that "Kiss was the reason [he] started playing rock," the roots of this north Texas quartet are indisputably ground in the British and Amer-indie guitar pop of the '80s. The lilting instrumental opener, "Gammar Gerten's Needle," has late-period Cure written all over it; "Halo" exists in the uncommon ground once occupied by The Fixx and OMD, but with an ever-present, effervescent acoustic guitar hushing the gloom away; and "Done" harkens back to the simple, bass-driven cerebralism of Wire Train. Each is built on a proven pop aesthetic that, given the mid-'90s musical climate, is quite singular. In its lyrical intelligence HOME also finds kinship with such current alterno-popsters as Michael Penn and Live. Invoking figures like modernist painter Vassily Kandinsky and prominent 20th Century works like the Blake Edwards film BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S in enlightened boy-girl tales, Deep Blue Something prove that the same ol' song topics need not result in the same ol' songs.

 

Note: This CD was left to me by my brother who passed away. The case shows some scuff and wear. The CD is in good condition.