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 enlarge | Artist: Teddy Thompson
Label: Verve Forecast
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 4897
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001093002
UPC: 602517643482
EAN: 0602517643482
ASIN: B0019ESNDM
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 20
 excellent album but... July 2, 2008
Patrick Hurley (ireland)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is classic Teddy Thompson and well worth the purchase.
Two complaints though. There are absolutely no liner notes with the CD - aside from listing the song titles. The CD sleeve invites you to go to the website but the credits are shown there in such a complicated way. (I wanted to print them and put them with the CD).
Second complaint... what is the point in having a hidden track (The Everly's 'Price Of Love') that to access requires you to fast forward 10 minutes along from the end of the final listed track. The easier solution (if you must have a hidden track) is to add it as an extra track, and thereby is readily accessible. Great album - sloppy finishing work.
 Teddy does it again! June 22, 2008
D. E. Guyas (Northfield, OH)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Teddy is great... This is Teddy with a little more edge. A little more modern. But Teddy nonetheless. All of his albums are phenomenal. If you can find his song called "Psycho" from the Vince Vaughn version of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" I'd start there. It's an amazingly cool song. Lyrically, it has that old outlaw country feel... fantastic music too.
When it comes to Teddy Thompson, you can't go wrong. Buy this album today and you'll buy the rest of his catalog within a month. I promise.
 Wish I liked this more July 1, 2008
A. Simons (Houston TX)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have all of Teddy Thompson's albums and was really looking forward to this one, but I'm disappointed. The voice is still great, but I'm tired of all the self-absorption. I think Teddy would be a better storyteller if he wrote about subjects other than himself. My advice: get your groove and sense of humor back, and stay away from Rufus Wainwright-like arrangements. Still love you, though.
Who said happiness kills creativity? This is a small masterpiece. June 25, 2008
Jesse Kornbluth (New York)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Teddy's in love.
Or, knowing how sly Teddy Thompson can be, I should say: At the very least, his persona is.
Either way, this is very good news.
"Happy lies ahead," Teddy Thompson predicted when I interviewed him in the spring of 2007.
And then he hedged: "But you never know --- it could turn nasty."
If you're in the Teddy Thompson cult --- and it's ridiculous that a cult is still all there is, because this guy is about as major as it gets --- you know that's classic Teddyspeak. He's invariably divided. His own worst enemy. Shockingly self-loathing, a genius at sabotaging relationships. And, of course, hopelessly romantic.
He writes pop songs that get crazy-glued to your memory, but he delights in project like a CD of country songs; he can make a Leonard Cohen song sound fresh. For a child of veteran musicians, he's way too articulate, ironic and self-effacing --- way too complicated --- for the business he's in.
In the past, he's been that character. Now, in "A Piece of What You Want", he confronts that guy with thrilling directness.
As you might expect, the CD starts with the singer stumbling: "It's getting harder and harder to live with myself/ I'm getting weaker in mental and physical health." He's "one night out away from the analyst's couch." But disgust is, of course, shot through with irony: "My standards are slipping day by day/ I'll sleep with anyone who gets in my way." The punch line: "No one's coming to save me now."
But wait! The second song is a total reversal: "What's this, what's this/Am I happy or something?" The voices in his head say "this will never work" but this time he's not running scared, this time it's all good. And while his arms are "not an easy place to be", he does grasp that it's hard to get lost there. So far, so great.
But wait yet again! This is Teddy Thompson --- by the fourth song, he's screwed it up. And feeling awful: "I'm minutes away, I'm taking the next train/ Don't know what I was thinking."
And so it goes, back and forth, a novel told in monologues. Or, better, a song cycle that, by turns, invokes Johnny Cash ("Maybe I'll learn to walk the line"), big band music, the powerhouse anthems of a Springsteen and much, much more. He can rock, he can boogie, he can steal your woman with a broken-hearted ballad --- musically, the CD burns hot and shiny.
And smart. Above all, smart. The kids who like simple and stupid are gonna wonder why Mom and Dad are listening to this English guy. Their loss. "A Piece of What You Want" is music for grown-ups who can still tap their toes, raise a fist, confront demons, hate phonies and come back for more. Very simply, it's a small masterpiece.
Who said happiness kills creativity?
Different, yet nice... July 4, 2008
SpencerB (Chambersburg, PA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Definitely a different style of production for Teddy Thompson. I like that he challenges himself on each record and this one is no exception. It is more "poppy," but I think that it works well for him. Teddy is one of the few new artists that I look forward to each new release. There's nothing about this CD that won't have me buying the next one.
Really good music, played well, and with a great vibe.
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