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Track:Catch My Disease (That's The Way I Like It)
This has got to be on the top 10 list of "happiest songs". I love it.
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Ben Lee
Awake Is the New Sleep
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AMG Review of Awake Is the New Sleep
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideLike most musicians who make a splash in their teens, Ben Lee has had a hard time finding his footing in his twenties. First, his American record label, Grand Royal, closed after the release of his 1999 album Breathing Tornados, and then, during the first half of the 2000s, shifting pop trends -- plus a general unspoken consensus that he was no longer a pop wunderkind now that he was in his twenties -- pushed him out of the limelight. He managed to get an album out in his native Australia in 2002, a move that didn't get nearly as much attention in the U.S. as his 2003 breakup with celebrity girlfriend Claire Daines. So, approaching the halfway point of his twenties and the 2000s, Lee was adrift, but he managed to regroup, at least artistically, with his 2005 album Awake Is the New Sleep. Reteaming with renowned indie rock producer Brad Wood, who helmed his 1997 LP Something to Remember Me By, Lee returns to the gently melodic, tentatively introspective indie pop that marked his best work of the '90s, but there is a difference here. Where that record, along with much of his previous work, was marked by a shy innocence, Lee is older now. He's been through the wringer and has had his heart broken, and it's given his music a greater emotional resonance. That alone would have made Awake Is the New Sleep noteworthy, but what makes it stand alongside Something to Remember Me By as his strongest album is that he's written a strong, melodic set of songs and Wood has given them a colorful but unadorned production that gives each tune its own character. It's not a great change -- he's still a gentle, low-key pop singer/songwriter in the vein of Evan Dando -- but the subtle changes in tone and perspective make Awake Is the New Sleep a nice, low-key comeback and an album that proves that Lee is beginning to reach his musical maturation.
This is the way I like it
Ah, yet another website to occupy my time with
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I really love finding old vinyl records in my garage that belong to my dad.We have the same taste in older music, which is pretty awesome.I'm pretty excited about this whole move.It's coming in less than 2 months. Pretty crazy.Life's looking good.
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I've Been Gotten By Ben Lee
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I had the wonderful pleasure of catching Ben Lee and his band perfome live at a little venue in downtown Orlando this past Wednesday night. He has always been one of the artists on my list to check out, I just never got around to it until a few weeks ago. A good girlfriend of mine brought the show up and of couse I said I'd go. So I purchased his newest album, Awake Is The New Sleep, and got to...
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"so tell me baby can you hear me? i sent a message out into the dark..."
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"you tell me baby that you can feel me i sent a message out into the dark when i kiss you thats the real me ive gotta find my way to your heart"Into the Dark is my favorite Ben Lee song. It's almost a perfect pop song, so addictive, I keep on playing it on repeat over and over again. I can't stop. Go ahead give Into the Dark a spin and you will fall for this underrated pop gem.
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Yes I am tired... but I ache for you
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But I dont want to.....I am tired if so much wanting.... sorry about the static vid...... If its true I ache for you... sigh... bigger sigh.....
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Ben Lee loves the people
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Much love for Ben Lee for his ticket prices on this tour - $5. Thanks Ben, see you in two weeks!
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I've Been Gotten By Ben Lee
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I had the wonderful pleasure of catching Ben Lee and his band perfome live at a little venue in downtown Orlando this past Wednesday night. He has always been one of the artists on my list to check out, I just never got around to it until a few weeks ago. A good girlfriend of mine brought the show up and of couse I said I'd go. So I purchased his newest album, Awake Is The New Sleep, and got to...
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i wanna know what he knowsi wanna feel what he felti wanna go where he's beeni wanna know what he knowsi wanna hear your secretsi want you and i want himcos you smell like apple candyand we're singing hallelujahand the edge in your affection broke my skini wanna know what he knowsi wanna touch what he touchedcall me by his namecos i know you made a promiseand told him he's your lovermake me fe...
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This is the way I like it
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This has got to be on the top 10 list of "happiest songs". I love it.
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Ah, yet another website to occupy my time with
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I really love finding old vinyl records in my garage that belong to my dad.We have the same taste in older music, which is pretty awesome.I'm pretty excited about this whole move.It's coming in less than 2 months. Pretty crazy.Life's looking good.
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