Product Details
Artist : Bran Van 3000
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0064027311426
Label : Select Distributions
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2003-08-05
UPC : 064027311426
ASIN : B000065IOG
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Gimme Sheldon
2. Couch Surfer
3. Drinking in L.A.
4. Problems
5. Highway to Heck
6. Forest
7. Rainshine
8. Carry On
9. Afrodiziak
10. Lucknow
11. Cum on Feel the Noize
12. Exactly Like Me!
13. Everywhere
14. Chanson
15. Old School
16. Willard
17. Supermodel
18. Oblonging
19. Mama Don't Smoke
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Editorial Reviews
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Sometimes Canadian pop music is virtually indistinguishable from the flavor made in the U.S., while at other times it seems like it could just as easily be the latest sound emanating from Poland's hit parade. Bran Van 3000, a Montréal-based (and largely anglophone, thank you) musical collective whose 1997 debut album Glee has already gone gold up north, fluctuates between those two sensibilities. Led by filmmaker/video director James Di Salvio, Bran Van 3000 have just the combination of innocence and contrivance, knowing indulgence and dumb charm to make the U.S. release of Glee into a very hip (relatively speaking) afterschool special.
The key selling point here is light-hearted eclecticism, and there's plenty of it: Bran Van have their way with hip-hop and reggae, metal, pop, and soul, and--perhaps most self-consciously--country as well as techno (try the drum & bass/country song "Willard," or the trip hop & western "Supermodel").
While Glee nods to '80s artists as predictably disparate as Quiet Riot and The The, its most interesting reference points draw from more recent history. "Couch Surfer," an ode to being a penniless moocher, and "Drinking in L.A.," about wasting time in southern California, take us back to the glorious slackerific days of "I'm a loser baby...," complete with white rapping and a sampler/live instrument concoction. In at least one way, Glee is truly a work of prescience: It's undoubtedly the first recorded document of the inevitable Early '90s revival. --Roni Sarig
Customer Reviews
One masterpiece (2007-08-27)  Bran Van 3000, or BV3, is at first a collective music ensemble based in Montréal, Canada. This album is so diversified, so well worked out, that even if every song is different from another, they , together, all make sense.Hard to follow? Well it at least gives a good reprensation of this album.In a few words, it's one of the best canadian album you can lay your hands on. Even if you don't like it at first, I promise that, at some point in your life, you'll be glad you bought it.
original (2004-07-05) glee is amazing in terms of each song being totally different it makes u dance with catchy songs and "funky" beats a cd that u can listen to over and over again if u like glee u'll love discosis which features well known artists
Ultimate music experience (2004-06-20) I just bougth the cd 'cos I lost my "drinking in L.A." version, altough it was hard to find, GLEE absolutely does it for me. The way the cd is mixed (country, house, hip-hop, eclectic) is amazing. This is truly by far the best cd I've ever bougth. I just hope we could get more "out of trend" music, you know, not everything shown on MTV is art.
like putting rock, rap, country, pop.... in a blender (2004-04-22) all i can say is.... excellent!!!! from the begining to the end. Its one of my favorites!!!!
A Mixed Bag (2004-01-20)  This record is difficult to review. Bran Van 3000 create interesting, original music, melting a lot of diverse styles in one album. "Glee" combines pop, hip hop, rock, electronica, country and easy listening (I probably forgot something), and as a whole is works as an unique, weird, flawed yet addictive effort. Each song here is quite different from one another, the band has male and female vocalists and at times there are some filler moments. When it`s good, it`s really good, like the lo-fi pop of "Problems", the absorbing "Rainshine" or the chaos presented in "Forest". "Old School", "Willard" and "Mama Don`t Smoke", however, would do better as b-sides. "Glee" is an eclectic mix, a bit too long and pointless at parts but with enough moments of brilliance to make it a recommended debut of the late 90`s. 3,5 stars.
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