Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
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Album Review
Release date: 09 October 2007
Band Of Horses
Cease To Begin
Suffering succotash! Yet more beardie Yanks! Shares in Gillette must be tumbling. But facial adornments aside, admirers of My Morning Jacket and Nada Surf will appreciate Band Of Horses’ brand of intelligent, jangly, folkish rock. ‘Cease To Begin’ is the second album by this trio from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains and, with angel-voiced lead singer Ben Bridwell at the fore,...
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- Is There a Ghost
- Ode to LRC
- No One's Gonna Love You
- Detlef Schrempf
- The General Specific
- Lamb on the Lam (In the City)
- Islands on the Coast
- Marry Song
- Cigarettes, Wedding Bands
- Window Blues
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Band of Horses - Cease to Begin: Wikipedia Album Entry
Cease to Begin is the second full-length album by Band of Horses, released on October 9, 2007. Lead singer Ben Bridwell said about the album in an interview: "I guess the first record had some kind of country-ish leanings and things [but] I think there's maybe a little bit more of [that] feeling on it, a little more down-home, I guess, and not so much indie rock."
The first track, "Is There a Ghost", was made available for download on the band's MySpace page on August 28, 2007. This song was #93 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. The song became the band's first charting single in the United States, peaking at #34 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album leaked to the internet before its release. Shortly after the official release, the album's third track and second single "No One's Gonna Love You" was featured as a free iTunes download, distributed at Starbucks locations.
The album debuted at number 35 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 21,000 copies in its first week. This album was #47 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
Cease to Begin was released in Japan on July 23, 2008 by Tear Bridge Records. The album featured three live bonus tracks and an enhanced video for "Is There a Ghost".
Track listing
1. "Is There a Ghost" – 2:59
2. "Ode to LRC" – 4:16
3. "No One's Gonna Love You" – 3:37
4. "Detlef Schrempf" – 4:28
5. "The General Specific" – 3:07
6. "Lamb on the Lam (in the City)" – 0:50
7. "Islands on the Coast" – 3:34
8. "Marry Song" – 3:23
9. "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands" – 4:35
10. "Window Blues" – 4:01
11. "No One's Gonna Love You" (live BBC session) (Japan-only bonus track)
12. "Is There a Ghost" (live BBC session) (Japan-only bonus track)
13. "Act Together" (live BBC session) (Japan-only bonus track)
14. "Is There a Ghost" (enhanced video) (Japan-only bonus track)
Credits
* Produced by Phil Ek and Band of Horses.
* All songs written by Ben Bridwell, except "Act Together" written by Ronnie Wood.
Singles
* "Is There a Ghost" (August 28, 2007)
* "No One's Gonna Love You" (February 25, 2008)
Reception
Cease to Begin received a 78/100 rating on Metacritic. It appeared on many "Best of 2007" lists:
* Austin Chronicle, Doug Freeman, #1 album of 2007
* Delusions of Adequacy, #9 album of 2007
* Filter Magazine, #2 album of 2007
* The Onion AV Club, #5 album of 2007
* Paste Magazine, #9 album of 2007
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Band of Horses - Cease to Begin Lyrics
Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You Lyrics
It's looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
We're reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
Band of Horses - Lam On the Lam (In the City) Lyrics
If the trials up here
Are really getting you down
You had a close call
I didn't even see it in another one
Band of Horses - The General Specific Lyrics
If the trials at hand are really getting you down
We had a close call, I didn't even see it, then another one, I hardly believed it at all.
What the writers say, it means shit to me now.
Plants and animals, we're on a bender when it's 80 degrees, the end of December, What's going on?
Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost Lyrics
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
Band of Horses - Window Blues Lyrics
Erase the facts
The shit was flyin' outta the window
I painted blue
I paint the whole room
Band of Horses - Cigarettes, Wedding Bands Lyrics
The working man's day we just piss it away
We sit out in the weather
Familiar, he said, times two breeds contempt
Band of Horses - Marry Song Lyrics
I'll marry my lover in a place to admire
I don't have to even ask her, I can look in her eyes
And thank God that I am forgiven
I thank all my friends
Band of Horses - Detlef Schrempf Lyrics
And take a little walk when the worst is to come
When I saw you looking like I never thought
And say you're at a loss or forgot that words can do more than harm
Band of Horses - Ode To LRC Lyrics
In the lobby of the LRC
Well I knew I'd find something
A hundred stories sittin' there to read I,
I got my 'focals out I put 'em on
Band of Horses - Islands On the Coast Lyrics
The hammer caught me
as a lesson you know,
and put the kind words to bed.
