- Audio CD (Aug 26 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Young God Records
- ASIN: B00006YXEG
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #96,662 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Tick Eats The Olives | |||
| 2. Roots | |||
| 3. The Charles C. Leary | |||
| 4. Nice People | |||
| 5. Animals | |||
| 6. Cosmos And Demos | |||
| 7. Michigan State | |||
| 8. Lend Me Your Teeth | |||
| 9. Hey Miss Cane | |||
| 10. Soon Is Good | |||
| 11. Tell Me Something | |||
| 12. The Red Lagoon | |||
| 13. A Gentle Soul | |||
| 14. Happy Happy Oh | |||
| 15. Pumpkin Seeds | |||
| 16. The Thumbs | |||
| 17. Legless Love | |||
| 18. Marigold | |||
| 19. Make It Easier | |||
| 20. Ones | |||
See all 22 tracks on this disc
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Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
The full title of this album is Oh Me Oh My the Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit. This sums up singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart reasonably well, demonstrating as it does an engagingly whimsical imagination, an evocative turn of phrase and a vast capacity to irritate. There are moments on Oh Me Oh My… which will have the listener drawing appreciative comparisons with Syd Barret and Elliot Smith, and there are hours during which you'll want to swat Banhart with his own guitar.
What Banhart really needs is a good editor. When he's good, as on the sombre and pretty "Animals" and "Cosmos and Demos", he radiates a downbeat charm that suits his lo-fi approach to recording perfectly. When he's bad, as on the laboured, wilfully annoying avant-garde nonsense--unhappily reminiscent of Vic Chestnutt at his least agreeable--that constitutes too much of the rest of the album, he's unlistenable. On Oh Me Oh My…, the balance is just about on the credit side of the ledger. --Andrew Mueller
Album Description
Full title - Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit. Mr. Barnhart's excellent 2003 debut album on Young God Records is compelling and weird, escaping definition. Using voice, guitar and four-track, his raw song-craft is terrifyingly effective at communicating the breadth of human emotion.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
oh...MY,
By Adrienne (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day (Audio CD)
This disc is so beautiful.Some people have described it as having, perhaps, "evil" qualities, and I suppose I see it in some of the songs (The Charles C. Leary, maybe)..but, all in all, I really think it's just delightful. Personally, I love The Spirit is Near. The foot stomping and sporadic shrieks really get me going. This man is a genius!
4.0 out of 5 stars
I want my blanket...,
By Elizabeth (US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day (Audio CD)
These songs give me the creeps, the kind that make me stay up all night with every light in the house on, with a few candles lit and a few prayers whispered for good measure. Still the cd keeps playing, all through the night until dawn comes because I just can't seem to stop listening. Like chimera or yet discovered flora, these songs crawl under your skin...and Devendra's voice-at times "Yeesh!" and at other times-pure, haunted beauty-still other times raw sensuality. There does seem something truly evil about this CD, but in that darkness there is a light I cannot pinpoint. Perhaps that's the appeal. At any rate, 'Oh me oh my...' inspires me, makes me feel younger than my 28 years, like I was 19 again and still even interested in music.
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Oh Me Oh My"! It's Devendra,
By Gavin B. (St. Louis MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day (Audio CD)
I'm not sure what to make of Devendra Banhart. He tiptoes on the margin between sublime and sheer lunacy. "Oh Me Oh My" is one of those rare CDs you put on, in an altered state, at 3 am in the morning, and like a bolt of lightining the genius of the artist strikes you. I listened to Skip Spence's "Oar" for several months before the elusive quality of his brilliance sank in. Devendra is a similar type of artist.The production values are charmingly low-fi and the lyrics...well... let's just say if you find a meaning in the content of Banhart's lyrics, then you are capable of some very loose associations. A lot the lyrics resemble the stream of consciouness, automatic writting practiced by Andre Breton and his brethern in French surrealist movement. It is just a guy and his guitar and a voice that defies any precedents. No production tricks like crunchy loops or sound reprocessing. He soars and swoops from pleasant mid range voice into a screeching falsetto almost at a whim. He pays little attention to conventional musical structures. It's almost as if Mr. Banheart never heard music at all, or even knew what a guitar was; and some guy handed him a guitar and said,"Here, Devandra do something with this thing." I will be interested in seeing where Devandra goes from here. Yesterday's low-fi genius, often becomes tomorrow's charlatan, after two or three releases. Is he a savant or an idiot? I'm sure we will get the answer in a year or two. Unconventional artists like Devandra don't have a lot of choices: they either melt down like Syd and Skip, or persue more centrist musical directions. A few artists like Beck and Captain Beefheart can pull it off, but smart money isn't betting on it yet.
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