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Track Listing
1. Meetings With Remarkable Men (Show Me the Hero)
2. Humility on Parade
3. Why I'm Lonely
4. Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo
5. You Miss the Point Completely I Get the Point Exactly
6. Authenticity
7. Carjack Fever, (Theme From)
8. Pike St., Park Slope
9. Thrilling Conversation You've Been Waiting For, (This Is) The
10. Loyalty Bldg.
11. Underground
12. Same as Being in Love, The
Album Notes
Harvey Danger: Sean Nelson (vocals, melodian, keyboards, tambourine, triangle); Jeff J. Lin (guitar, piano, organ, xylophone, Theremin); Aaron Huffman (guitar, pipe organ, vibraphone, bass); Evan Sult (drums).
Additional personnel: Marc Olsen (slide guitar); Larry Sult (banjo); Joe Gottesman, Shari Link (viola); Rajan Krishnaswami, Terri Benshoof (cello); Jami Sieber (electric cello); Ben Gibbard, Ken Stringfellow, Lois Maffeo, Grant Lee Phillips, Anne Marie Ruljancich (background vocals).
Recorded at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York; John & Stu's Place, Seattle, Washington; Bear Creek, Woodinville, Washington.
Harvey Danger ducked the sophomore jinx with their follow-up to WHERE HAVE ALL THE MERRYMAKERS GONE. Almost three years later, KING JAMES VERSION found the band more settled, but equally ready to prove themselves worthy of attention.
Vocalist Sean Nelson's tongue-in-cheek tenor floats above the band on songs like "Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo." Nelson's trademark memorable quirkiness gets an airing in "Meetings With Remarkable Men," where he alludes to a brunch with Jesus that ends when "he had to go and die for my sins and stick my ass with the check." Bassist Aaron Huffman stretches on KING JAMES VERSION with some great melodic results, without sacrificing his rhythmic duties. The Beatles-esque "The Same as Being in Love" uses the clever romantic metaphor "I was the typo, you were the liquid paper," to sum up what modern rock enthusiasts can happily expect from the Washington upstarts of Harvey Danger.
Industry Reviews
...[A] caustic...mold-busting CD....Too clever by half, and that's a compliment... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (09/15/2000)
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