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█ Artist.....: Cloud Cult █
█ Album......: They Live On The Sun █
█ Label......: Earthology Records █
█ Year.......: 2003 █
█ Genre......: Avantgarde █
█ Rip Date...: Oct-18-2003 █
█ Store Date.: Jul-15-2003 █
█ Ripper.....: Team ICE █
█ Supplier...: Team ICE █
█ Quality....: 192kbps / 44.1kHz / Full Stereo █
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█ T R A C K L I S T I N G █
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█ Title: Time: █
█ 01 On The Sun 03:33 █
█ 02 Moon's Thoughts 02:34 █
█ 03 Turtle Shell 01:24 █
█ 04 Fairy Tale 02:11 █
█ 05 It 02:50 █
█ 06 Estupido 03:25 █
█ 07 Radio Fodder 02:13 █
█ 08 Da Dum 02:56 █
█ 09 Man On The Moon 03:07 █
█ 10 Took You For Granted 03:11 █
█ 11 Toys In The Attic 01:18 █
█ 12 It's Gay 01:10 █
█ 13 Best Friend 01:58 █
█ 14 Waitress 01:44 █
█ 15 Back Again P.II 05:36 █
█ 16 Shortenin' Bread 02:20 █
█ 17 Three Times A Lady 05:36 █
█ 18 I'm Not Gone 02:25 █
█ 19 Your Love Will Live Forever 04:36 █
█ 20 Sleeping Days P.II 03:56 █
█ 21 6 Days (Radio Mix) 04:01 █
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█ Tracks.: 21 █
█ Time...: 62:04 min █
█ Size...: 85,4 MB █
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█ R E L E A S E N O T E S █
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█ www.earthology.net/cloudcult █
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█ Cloud Cult is a multi-faceted band unlike any other, █
█ donating 100% of its profits after expenses to environmental █
█ charities, and spearheading activist campaigns of their own. █
█ Established as a not-for-profit music centered environmental █
█ Movement, Cloud Cult and its parent label, Earthology █
█ Records are providing music lovers across the U.S. with some █
█ of the most intelligent revolutionary music on the market █
█ today. At the same time, Cloud Cult and Earthology Records █
█ are a means to provide entertainment that educates listeners █
█ about important environmental and social issues. █
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█ Beyond all of that, college and alternative radio fans just █
█ plain love the music. Cloud Cult debuted on the North █
█ America college radio music charts at an impressive #8 Most █
█ Added on July 7, 2003 and now, several weeks later, they're █
█ cruising up the charts, hitting the Top 10 most played/ most █
█ requested album in over a dozen major cities across the U.S. █
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█ What makes all of that even more impressive is that Cloud █
█ Cult, having spent next to nothing for promotion and █
█ marketing, is now passing bands on the charts that are █
█ signed to major record labels, who regularly invest anywhere █
█ from $30,000 to over a million bucks on marketing, to insure █
█ their band will do well on the charts. The music industry █
█ hasn't seen the likes of such a successful grassroots █
█ campaign since Ani Difranco's Righteous Babe Records started █
█ launching her into the public eye. █
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█ Cloud Cult - "They Live on the Sun" █
█ Review by Josh Lukkes - Blue Skunk Companion █
█ 07/07/2003 █
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█ I've heard of people crying when they've seen masterpieces. █
█ I was never one of them until Saturday. A CD popped into my █
█ mailbox that I couldn't wait to hear. It was the newest █
█ release by Cloud Cult, entitled "They Live on the Sun." █
█ Never in the history of Rock and Roll has an album's title █
█ been such a direct contrast to its content - they may live █
█ on the sun, but the album is all moonlight with candles, █
█ booze and a piano, dark beyond description, beautiful, █
█ intricate, wailing with grief, sometimes guttural, sometimes █
█ a sweet windchime on a spring night in May. █
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█ "They Live on the Sun" is an extended epitaph to Craig █
█ Minowa's son, Kaidin, who died Feb. 23, 2002. Every song █
█ deals with this in some way or another, providing a gut- █
█ wrenching look into death and its corresponding anger, █
█ grief, fear, blackhole vortex of anguish. It is not an easy █
█ album to listen to. But upon listening to it, there is much █
█ to love. The music is inescapably catchy, hooks piled on █
█ hooks piled on tempo shifts, melodies, atonal cacaphony, all █
█ blended with a healthy dose of fuck you and love. █
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█ The album is as complex as any contemporary piece of █
█ classical music without compromising its integrity as a █
█ great Rock and Roll album or seeming trite. Particularly █
█ harrowing are the songs "Took You for Granted" and "Sleeping █
█ Days PT 2." "Took You for Granted" is a beautiful string and █
█ drum arrangement overlaid with Kaidin speaking I love you's █
█ and goodbyes, Minowa's lyrics pleading, angry, crying out █
█ and sniffles, a cry for help with one hand in heaven and the █
█ other on his heart, "I can't help but say they've taken away █
█ the biggest thing I care for. I live in the black. It's a █
█ simple fact, I'm here but I'm not aware." In "Sleeping Days █
█ PT 2," Minowa scratches out his wavering lyrics encompanied █
█ by an old, out of tune piano. █
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█ The original "Sleeping Days" is a shimmering, gushy love █
█ song to his ex-wife written ten years ago that skirts the █
█ fine line of kitsch with its flowery imagery of tree nymphs █
█ and daisies. Not so with Part 2, a grounded, hard look at █
█ the death of Kaidin and its aftershocks of emotion and the █
█ desire for an afterlife more beautiful than this world, more █
█ perfect than any tree bough or blue sky, "I'd like to think █
█ you're sleeping in a safe little bluebird's nest and I'll █
█ protect your memories with the dragons in my head." Not █
█ easy, not fluffed, but more honest than a drunk cowboy song █
█ or a preacher on Sunday. In all, "They Live On the Sun" is a █
█ must have album, the musical equivalent of hanging a Picasso █
█ in your living room. █
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█ The music is as complicated as its subject matter, garbled █
█ into a pile of bones and voices at times, at others you can █
█ almost feel the clarity rip through you. I can now say I've █
█ joined the ranks of those that have wept openly at a pure █
█ product of creative genius and raw human emotion. █
█ █
█ Thanks Craig Minowa, your ability to craft simple elegance █
█ makes your pain my pain, your loss my loss, your hopes and █
█ fears my hopes and fears. I pray that your player piano █
█ doesn't stop anytime soon. █
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█ ICE is a new group composed of experienced individuals from the scene █
█ whose main purpose is to contribute quality releases. We believe in █
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█ nfo coded by: team.ice last update: sept 17, 2003 █
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