Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
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Album Review
Release date: 17 July 2009
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The Seldom Seen Kid // Fiction
If 2005’s ‘Leaders Of The Free World’ was Elbow’s on-tour love letter to Manchester, this is the sound of them returning and re-evaluating their relationship with the city. Mancunians have a curiously tempestuous relationship with their hometown that renders them both partisan and pessimistic and it’s an emotional conflict that Guy Garvey wrestled with during the conception of this...
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- Starlings
- The Bones Of You
- Mirrorball
- Grounds For Divorce
- An Audience With The Pope
- Weather To Fly
- The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
- The Fix
- Some Riot
- One Day Like This
- Friend Of Ours
- We're Away (Album Version - UK Bonus Track)
- Hotel Istanbul (Non-album track)
- Lullaby (Non-album track)
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Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid: Wikipedia Album Entry
The Seldom Seen Kid is the fourth studio album by the indie rock band Elbow. It was released by Fiction Records on March 17, 2008 in the United Kingdom, and was released by Geffen Records on April 22, 2008 in the United States.
The album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Manchester, and is the first Elbow album to be entirely self-produced, mixed and recorded without any outside help. The bulk of the record was written and performed by the band, besides a guest appearance from singer-songwriter Richard Hawley who contributes to guest vocals, lead guitar and co-songwriting on The Fix.
The title of the album is taken from a lyric in the first single, Grounds For Divorce. It also is a nickname, given by Guy Garvey's father, for Bryan Glancy, a fellow Mancunian musician and friend of the band who died suddenly in 2006. The closing track, Friend Of Ours and the liner notes of the album are dedicated in his memory.
The album won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.
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Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid Lyrics
Elbow - Starlings Lyrics
How dare the Premier ignore my invitations?
He'll have to go
So, to the bunch he luncheons with
It's second on my list of things to do
Elbow - One Day Like This Lyrics
Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off the heavy one
Heavy like a loaded gun
Elbow - Some Riot Lyrics
A friend of mine grows his very own brambles
They twist all around him 'til he can't move
Beautiful, quivering, chivalrous shambles
What is my friend trying to prove?
Elbow - The Fix Lyrics
The fix is in
There's a nag gonna dance home at Epsom
The fix is in
Can't wait to see how it upsets 'em
Elbow - The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver Lyrics
Gotta get out of TV
Just pick a point and go
The ticker-tape tangles my feet
As I search for a face that I know
Elbow - Weather to Fly Lyrics
Are we having the time of our life?
Are we having the time of our lives?
Are we coming across clear?
Are we coming across fine?
Elbow - An Audience with the Pope Lyrics
Sweet Jesus, I'm on fire
She has the sweetest, darkest eyes
And when it comes into her eyes
I know iron and steel couldn't hold me
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce Lyrics
Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid
I've been working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce
Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve
Elbow - Mirrorball Lyrics
I plant the kind of kiss
That wouldn't wake a baby
On the self-same face
The wouldn't let me sleep
Elbow - The Bones of You Lyrics
So I'm there charging around with a juggernaut brow
Overdraft, speeches and deadlines to make
Cramming commitments like cats in a sack
Telephone burn and a purposeful gait
Elbow - Friend of Ours Lyrics
Before leaving get to the bar
No one 'round here makes you pay
Never very good at goodbyes
So gentle shoulder charge, love you, mate
