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Track Listings
| 1. Gimme Sheldon |
| 2. Couch Surfer |
| 3. Drinking In L.A. |
| 4. Problems |
| 5. Highway To Heck |
| 6. Forest |
| 7. Rainshine |
| 8. Carry On |
| 9. Afrodiziak |
| 10. Lucknow |
| 11. Cum On Feel The Noize |
| 12. Exactly Like Me |
| 13. Everywhere |
| 14. Une Chanson |
| 15. Old School |
| 16. Willard |
| 17. Supermodel |
| 18. Oblonging |
| 19. Mama Don't Smoke |
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Sometimes Canadian pop music is virtually indistinguishable from the flavor made in the U.S., while at other times it seems like it could just as easily be the latest sound emanating from Poland's hit parade. Bran Van 3000, a Montréal-based (and largely anglophone, thank you) musical collective whose 1997 debut album Glee has already gone gold up north, fluctuates between those two sensibilities. Led by filmmaker/video director James Di Salvio, Bran Van 3000 have just the combination of innocence and contrivance, knowing indulgence and dumb charm to make the U.S. release of Glee into a very hip (relatively speaking) afterschool special.
The key selling point here is light-hearted eclecticism, and there's plenty of it: Bran Van have their way with hip-hop and reggae, metal, pop, and soul, and--perhaps most self-consciously--country as well as techno (try the drum & bass/country song "Willard," or the trip hop & western "Supermodel").
While Glee nods to '80s artists as predictably disparate as Quiet Riot and The The, its most interesting reference points draw from more recent history. "Couch Surfer," an ode to being a penniless moocher, and "Drinking in L.A.," about wasting time in southern California, take us back to the glorious slackerific days of "I'm a loser baby...," complete with white rapping and a sampler/live instrument concoction. In at least one way, Glee is truly a work of prescience: It's undoubtedly the first recorded document of the inevitable Early '90s revival. --Roni Sarig
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1.0 out of 5 stars
What were they thinking ?????!!!!!..........,
By Carl Michael Fredrick (Canada)The Northern Colonies of the U.S.A ......) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Glee (W/3 New Tracks) (Audio CD)
Leave it to the Americans running the record industry in Canada to put less songs on "The Canadian Version" and EXTRAS !!! on "The International Version" yes,common sense would tell any intelligible human being that you put more/different songs on the "Canadian (home grown)version" and they'll have to buy that one for the extra songs like in "JAPAN"....leave it to The American Corporations controlling the music industry in Canada to do the opposite !!!!!
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One masterpiece,
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This review is from: Glee (W/3 New Tracks) (Audio CD)
Bran Van 3000, or BV3, is at first a collective music ensemble based in Montréal, Canada. This album is so diversified, so well worked out, that even if every song is different from another, they , together, all make sense.Hard to follow? Well it at least gives a good reprensation of this album.In a few words, it's one of the best canadian album you can lay your hands on. Even if you don't like it at first, I promise that, at some point in your life, you'll be glad you bought it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Glee (W/3 New Tracks) (Audio CD)
glee is amazing in terms of each song being totally different it makes u dance with catchy songs and "funky" beats a cd that u can listen to over and over againif u like glee u'll love discosis which features well known artists
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