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  • Posted: 10/30/2014 20:00
  • Post subject: Album of the day (#1431): Hopes And Fears by Keane
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Today's album of the day

Hopes And Fears by Keane (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2004.
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Overall rank: 526
Average rating: 73/100 (from 229 votes).



Tracks:
1. Somewhere Only We Know
2. Bend And Break
3. We Might As Well Be Strangers
4. Everybody's Changing
5. Your Eyes Open
6. She Has No Time
7. Can't Stop Now
8. Sunshine
9. This Is The Last Time
10. On A Day Like Today
11. Untitled 1
12. Bedshaped

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
Kiki
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  • Posted: 10/30/2014 20:31
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Best album of the day in a while Smile The next album is even better! Still this is like waiting for hte movie to begin
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  • Posted: 10/30/2014 22:58
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On their debut, Keane showed that it's possible to make a high selling pop-rock album with no guitars or synths; only with keybards and drums. I like this album a lot; it may not be the most varied and complex album but you can find some songs which can stay in your mind forever like "Somewhere only we know" or "Bedshaped" which are unique and gave fame to the "Piano Rock" genre. In short, they have a different sound of their own which is something to appreciate on a best selling album aimed at the general public.
I believe this is their best album; after, they tried to add more instruments but their songs were mostly worse than on this album.
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  • Posted: 10/30/2014 23:26
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If there were ever such a thing as "cult albums," Hopes and Fears might be among them. Flawed, but endlessly endearing to those who love it.

Track picks
1. Somewhere Only We Know
4. Everybody's Changing
12. Bedshaped
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  • Posted: 10/31/2014 17:56
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2. Bend And Break
3. We Might As Well Be Strangers
6. She Has No Time
7. Can't Stop Now
9. This Is The Last Time


All 5 of these songs are both excellent and rarely mentioned. really a solid group of underrated tracks that give this album a lot of depth to supplement the oft-discussed "somewhere only we know", "everybody's changing", and "Bedshaped."
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  • Posted: 10/31/2014 18:55
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LOVED this album when it came out, but every time I've revisited it lately, I can't seem to enjoy it at all, with the exception of Somewhere Only We Know, Bedshaped and especially Untitled 1.
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  • Posted: 10/31/2014 21:36
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Ironically, easy listening music like this is the hardest stuff for me to listen to. Put it on a little while ago thinking my wife at least would dig it as we get ready for Halloween, and she's like -"What is this generic crap we're listening to?!"

Which of course totally made my day! Very Happy
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  • Posted: 10/31/2014 21:47
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More fears than hopes, alas.
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  • Posted: 11/01/2014 18:06
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Very good album.
Best tracks: Somewhere Only We Know, Everybody's Changing, Bedshaped, This Is the Last Time.
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