Life In A Blender - Tell Me I'm Pretty (2002)

This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in June 2008.


Life In A Blender - Tell Me I'm Pretty (2002)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f548/f54878lz627.jpg?042148

Includes:
Files by track, ripped at FLAC 8 using Easy CD-DA Extractor (www.poikosoft.com)
Tracks have full tags (including embedded thumbnail).
All artwork in jpgs at 300 d.p.i. Rotated and cropped losslessly using jpegcrop. (Includes 16 page booklet.)
AMG Bio.txt
AMG Review.txt
Notes.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent)

Biography from All Music:

Life in a Blender is the personal playground of Don Ralph, a bizarre vocalist that offers a deep-voiced quirkiness to match his charismatic college rock. Working with high school friends Dave Moody, Mark Lerner (Rosine,) Rebecca Weiner (Patti Smith,) Ken Meyer, John Donne, and Al Houghton (a frequent They Might Be Giants collaborator,) Life in a Blender is a project that is often put on hold due to the member's various musical commitments. Still, as members of They Might Be Giants' inner circle, they enjoy a status as a cute and lovable pop band that hides a twisted sense of humor and wicked attitude underneath the surface. Starting in the late 80's, the band comes together every four to six years and makes fun rock music that offers a deranged lyrical viewpoint in contrast to the jangly guitars and lushly produced music. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the band makes waves in their home city with fun publicity stunts such as performing at a strip club art opening, and playing "Stairway to Heaven" on the street in their underwear. A lengthy absence marked the time between records after Motivational Tape #1, but they returned in 2002 with Tell Me I'm Pretty.

Taken from: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3xfyxqwgldte~T1

All Music Album Review:

Admittedly it's a case of slightly dashed expectations (for some) when it turns out that opening song "Something Must Break" is an original rather than a Joy Division cover, but who says that titles can't be used again, after all? As for Life in a Blender itself, at this stage in its lengthy existence the Brooklyn-based septet seems to occupy a quirky space between Firewater and Soul Coughing when it comes to try-anything-once eclecticism with the lead singer's voice and vision front and center. In that regard the group seems like one of those many New York bands that has a love and hate relationship with rock & roll as such -- they can certainly crank the volume as needed and drummer Ken Meyer can get some full-bodied stomp in, but there's no mistaking them for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or the Ramones. Lead figure and songwriter Don Ralph is unsurprisingly still at the core of it all when it comes to how the band can both work and not work in equal measure. Sometimes he seems to be exaggerating a strident speak-singing approach that aims for wry and witty but can just be tiring (or else seems to be trying to fulfill the non-present demand for a clear-singing Tom Waits). Then again, he can just as easily find a breezy, bemused wistfulness that works far better, sometimes in the same song ("Kent" and "Paterson Falls" in particular capture him at both his best and worst). When both band and singer bring it together to concentrate on a good song -- the wistful New Orleans jazz/sea shantey tip to the street cleaners "Mobile Wash Unit," the spaghetti Western-tinged drama of "Eyes Are Red" -- then the group really has a certain fun and entertaining something.

More album detail at: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h9fwxqwaldse

At the above link you can listen to samples of all the tracks.

The band's page can be found at: http://www.lifeinablender.net/
Where all eight of their CDs are available for purchase.

Track List:

01. Something Must Break
02. Kent
03. Hero Rising From The Sea
04. Mobile Wash Unit
05. Dead Get Down
06. Dolly Down The Hole
07. Sex With Cops
08. Sleep For Years
09. Eyes Are Red
10. Paterson Falls
11. Prize At The Bottom
12. Drunks Have All The Answers
13. Party Soon