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 Everything That Happens Will Happen TodaySales Rank:33List Price: $15.98 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Lowest Used Price: $8.49 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 Total Reviews: 15 Customer Reviews:Rating: 2 A let-down and a disappointment It's hard to finish this CD. Part of my disappointment is from its failure to live up to my expectations, and also this CD just fails on its own. I am a fan of REMAIN IN LIGHT and BUSH OF GHOSTS (two other Eno/Byrne collaborations) and was hoping for more of the same. This CD is not even close! This album should have been WRONG WAY UP (Eno/Cale) so do yourself a favor and go get that CD instead. Hard to put my finger on exactly what is wrong with this album other than it was a chore to get through it and felt disjointed. This was not a collaboration in any sense, even in the liner notes they explain that Eno made the music in advance of Byrne writing his lyrics in response to the music. The end result feels like the mashup that it is. Rating: 4 David Byrne is on a roll (along with Brian Eno) After the satisfying "Growing Backwards" album in 2004, which was David Byrne's most exciting album in a long time (for me anyway), Byrne now returns with yet another fine album, only that this time it is a collaboration with Brian Eno. I don't dare say that this is the long-awaited follow-up to the Byrne/Eno 1981 classic "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" album, but timing-wise this would be a correct statement. On "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today", Eno and Byrne bring a lush landscape, quite different form the "Ghosts" album. The opener "Home" is a slow, almost majestic, song, as is the title track. The 'classic' Eno/Byrne sound (recalling the Eno-produced Talking Heads albums and the "Ghosts" album) comes through in tracks like "I Feel My Stuff", "Strange Overtones" (which is the best song on the album for me), "Wanted For Life" and "Poor Boy". The closer "The Lighthouse" is a beautiful pensive tune that is the perfect way to round out the album. In all, this album is a delight to listen to pretty much from start to finish. I had the opportunity to see David Byrne in concert a couple of months ago at the beautiful Warner Theatre in Washington, DC in support of this album, and what a magical evening that was (being in the second row, in spitting distance of Byrne, certainly didn't hurt). He brought a bunch of songs from this album (including Strange Overtones, My Big Nurse, Life Is Long, and others), and truth be told, I thought that a number of the songs sounded better live than on the album. Of course there were a bunch of songs as well from the Eno-produced "Fear of Music" and "Remain in Light" Talking Head albums. If you have a chance to see him on this tour, do not miss out on it! Rating: 5 Finally I've been waiting for something like this CD from David Byrne for some time.Always liked the Talking Heads but never really cared for his solo material.I saw his show at Carnegie Hall and it was ok but I really hoped he would throw in some Talking Heads stuff which he did not. Noticed he was on tour and was doing a show at Foxwoods and bought tickets before I heard about this CD.Well the show was amazing.I love this CD,some songs more than others but its great new material.Teaming up with Brian Eno again was a great move. Rating: 5 Pensive. I've been listening to this album over and over. New age. Folk music. Peter, Paul and Mary. Instrumental with words. Occasionally reminds me of some of the Beatles' pensive music, especially the eponymous "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today." I stumbled upon the album when I stumbled upon the blog, "an udge and a wink." Hint, hint, wink, wink. I guess what I like about it best is its calming effect. Kind of fridaynight, turn-the-lights-down-low, wrap-your-arms-around-someone music. And then fall asleep with the album on continuous replay.... Syrupy. Treacly. Maybe. Good? Definitely. It's not the kind of album you buy songs separately at 99 cents a piece, or mix them up on your iPod. It's a coherent album with songs placed in order by sentient beings. Rating: 4 Continuation of Eno's ambient textures, music combined with Byrne's lyrics =one of the best albums of 2008 I'm perplexed that fans would expect "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" Part II as both Eno and Byrne have continued to change and grow as artists since their last collaboration over 20 years ago. Here's what it sounds like--Eno's ambient textures, music and soundscapes with occasionally propulsive beats combined with Byrne's quirky vocal delivery and lyrics. Imagine Eno's last album "Another Day on Earth" colliding with Bryne's "Growing Backwards" and you'll have a sense of the album's sound and appeal. "Folk-electronic-gospel" is a pretty accurate description if you add in "pop" as part of the description. There are two editions of this available; a collector's edition with a miniature house and landscape housing the CD with three additional tracks, booklet and art and the regular CD edition both of them available from Bryne's website. I'd suggest ordering directly from there because the turn around time for the discs to ship will take less AND if you order the regular CD you get an immediate mp3 download of the entire album plus graphics for you to enjoy on your computer, mp3 player, etc. until the CD arrives. You can also download the entire album there as well if you want just that and, again, you'll get the entire graphics in Adobe to either read on your computer or print out as a booklet for the CD. I had a bit of difficulty importing the graphics over to a regular Microsoft program that I use to create my own inserts for CD-R's (called Mediaface) but that could be simply that it's an old program that I've kept because I like the design options. "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" demonstrates that Bryne and Eno don't rest on their laurels and continue to create fun, fascinating music. Occasionally you'll hear bits and pieces of their past collaborations crop up in the music and lyrics but this album is a look forward NOT a look into the past. 4 1/2 stars...to early to tell if it's 5 but it's darn close! |