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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
December 24, 1999
Studio:
4AD
Number Of Discs:
1
Format:
Import
Average Customer Rating:
based on 8 reviews
Track Listing:
1.
Are You Coming Down This Weekend?
2.
Her Eyes Were Huge Things
3.
Charmer
4.
Hope Called in Sick
5.
My Feathers Needed Cleaning
6.
Well
7.
There's Something Between Us and He's Changing My Words
8.
Phoenix, a Pool of Ice
9.
Are We Still Married?
10.
Put Your Finger in Your Eye
11.
Home Is in Your Head
12.
Why People Disappear
13.
Here Eyes Are Huge
14.
Save the Birds
15.
Chances Are We Are Mad
16.
Mescalina
17.
Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking
18.
Very Bad a Bitter Hand
19.
Beautiful and Pointless
20.
Tempe
21.
Spirit and Body
22.
Love's a Fish Eye
23.
Dreams Are of the Body
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Refines the first album into a beautiful collageJun 18, 2006 "Home Is In Your Head" is one of the few HNIA albums to sound like the one that came before it--probably because it was mostly made up of songs that Warren Defever recorded during the same time period as "Livonia." Once again, This Mortal Coil's Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer mixed it into something coherent.
But "Home Is In Your Head" is far from a "Livonia" clone or rehash. Whereas "Livonia" featured beautiful gothic folk songs with a dash here and there of new wave and heavy metal guitar heroics, interspersed with moody instrumentals, "Home Is In Your Head" refines the concept further. The songs are more direct, with stronger lyrics and hooks, and the instrumentals are shorter, but also more direct and more evocative.
It all adds up to a beautiful collage of mood and feeling. While individual songs may not hold up, especially the more brief instrumentals, the album as a whole is a masterwork of musical texture.
As a side note, it appears that 4AD's most recent CD issue includes the "Dirt Eaters" EP, as did Rykodisc's initial USA release of the album. While "The Dirt Eaters" is a fine record on its own, it really doesn't go well with "Home Is In Your Head," save for the included altnerate version of "Are We Still Married?". It's a more song-oriented effort, hinting at the direction that HNIA would take over the next few records. "Home Is In Your Head" really should end as it did on the original vinyl--with the tape running out on its most upbeat song!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Dark...Jan 05, 2006 This is a more listenable effort than the debut album, "Livonia"
but still should barely be classifiable as "music"...
It's more like ethereal sounda art, dreamscapes, spoken word with acoustic guitar wafting in and out over atmospheric distortion.
Karin's voice sounds more confident than "Livonia", but still a little to trite for my taste. I mean, "this Mortal Coil" had a little more soul...
NOT FOR BEGINNERS IMHO...
I'd recommend
"Mouth by Mouth"
"Stars on ESP"
or
"Ft Lake"
Thank you!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
a sketchbook of dreamsOct 22, 2005 wow. i remember first hearing this album years and years ago and just being in awe of the beautiful and endlessly creative music. there are alot of songs on this album, but each one is almost like a small sketch of an idea. drifting in and out of one another, some are soft and gentle, and others are a bit more disturbing and dark. the undeniable beauty of songs like "Why People Disappear", "Sitting Still Moving...", and "Are We Still Married?" never fail to move me. this is an album full of haunting, ghostly, strange, and alluring music; teetering close to the edge of being new age or pop...but then they toss out a Rainbow cover song (done exceptionally well, i might add) and the mystery of this band just continues to develop as it unravels. certainly recomended for fan of Cocteau Twins, Swallow, or Slowdive.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Weird and WonderfulOct 14, 2001 This is the album that introduced me to HNIA. At that time, I hadn't heard the more ethereal "Livonia", but I read a review of "Home is in Your Head" that made it sound really interesting...and they were right! The album mixes an amazing variety of styles, textures, and tones over the course of the disc. Each new track is a surprise the first time you hear it, and the album is interesting each time you revisit it. And yes, the last track is supposed to end that way...the tape ran out as they were recording it, and they left it like that.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
dark,dark,darkOct 14, 2000 this album is rather similar to "livonia" in my opinion. it shares the previous album's' darkness, and although the songs are generally short, they still can be really creepy stuff! the vocals sound like they were sung in a cave and the guitars can go from acoustic to noise in a matter of seconds, but not your standard: verse,chorus,verse formula- as those informed would know! i dont thik its their best album, but i do think it is good in itself; its his name is alive! they cant make an awful album!...i prefer "stars on e.s.p." and "mouth by mouth" more, just for their more experimental-ism and diverse emotional states...one interesting thing,though, is the sample of jack nicholoson on "the dirt eaters"...
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