User Pick of the Day (#36): I Am a Bird Now [drakonium]

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I Am A Bird Now by Antony And The Johnsons

Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by drakonium
Rank on User's Chart: 1
Year: 2006
Rank on BEA Overall: 617
Average Rating: 79/100
Summary Info: The second album by baroque/chamber pop band, Antony and the Johnsons, led by Antony Hegarty. This album garnered considerably more mainstream attention than the first and included guest appearances from Lou Reed, Boy George, Rufus Wainwright, and Devendra Banhart.

Details on the implementation and chart selection process of "User Pick of the Day" can be found here and here, respectively. A chart documenting the previous picks can be found here.
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This album is painfully beautiful, so much so that I have to be in a certain state of mind to listen to it. But it's fantastic none the less.
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No need be in any certain state of mind for anything related to pop music. ๐Ÿคฃ Operating machinery... now that's the sort of thing you have to be all there for.

This album should be on my chart. It has some lovely moments you know. Never had it as a favorite so no favorite tracks right now.
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Listening to this right now, for the first time. It really seems to be great!
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This is really gorgeous stuff. "Hope There's Someone" really is one of the most purely beautifully emotional things ever... Until the kind of annoying overly dramatic ending that kills it.

Still really cool album.
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This seems like a really interesting album. It's also drakonium's #1, so this is going right on my listening chart.
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I love this record, however, "My Lady Story" has to have one of the most irritating idiosyncrasies known to me.

Anything with "My Lady" sounding like "M'Lady" irritates me.



Everything else though, ESPECIALLY the opening track, is beautiful.

This spent time on my Overall, it's due for another listen.
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Precedent wrote:
Anything with "My Lady" sounding like "M'Lady" irritates me.

๐Ÿคฃ Had a good laugh, thanks for that.
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MrFrogger wrote:
This album is painfully beautiful, so much so that I have to be in a certain state of mind to listen to it. But it's fantastic none the less.


Absolutely agree. Track pick for me is actually "Fistful of Love", which I can listen to anytime!
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Yeah, Fistful of love is like the Sloop John B. of this album, it can seem a bit out of place, but if you think so ur dumb lol, it's much brighter than the rest and certainly the track I listen to the most on its own.

Not sure what to write etc, but the key point here is the voice. This guy has literally my favorite voice ever. Makes melodramatic sounds natural. And the end is the best, wtf Mercury! The four track suite of Fistful, Spiralling, Free At Last and Bird Gehrl is like the best thing human beings have ever done.

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