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Apparently Ben Lee's been getting a good deal of the proper encouragement and studio connections needed to get away with such an "It's okay to be inoffensive" record. Because Breathing Tornados is inoffensive, and it is okay. Many listeners will bristle at 12 songs that essentially intend to instruct you how to live a wise and healthy life, sung by a guy scarcely older than your teenage brother with that hip nasal inflection going around among young solo acoustic acts these days. Although often compared to Beck, P.J. Olsson and Ben Folds, Lee is not a great innovator, although "Nothing Much Happens" is something of a sparkly centerpiece among relatively unremarkable two-chord singalongs like "Cigarettes Will Kill You" and the catchy "Birthday Song." An awful lot of precovered angsty territory is sloshed over again in "Burn to Shine" and "Ship My Body Home," reminding us that youth is the question and the answer, the problem and the solution ... to that elusive something that gets referred to on this record a lot, yet never actually named. As on the sleepy anthem "Tornados," Lee is attempting to figure it out, and hopefully he'll reign disappointed enough in his quest to keep searching, thus keep making records.
© Becky Byrkit /TiVo
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Liz Heller, Producer - Ben Lee, Composer, Featured Vocalist, Writer, MainArtist - Ed Buller, Producer, Mixer - Paul Feldsher, Producer - Willard Carroll, Producer - Tim Sexton, Producer, Supervisor
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Petra Haden, Composer - Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Petra Haden, Composer - Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Andre Hornez, Composer - Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist - HENRI BETTI, Composer - Harmony Korine, Composer
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Petra Haden, Composer - Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist - Ed Buller, Composer
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Ben Lee, Composer, MainArtist
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
Albumbeschreibung
Apparently Ben Lee's been getting a good deal of the proper encouragement and studio connections needed to get away with such an "It's okay to be inoffensive" record. Because Breathing Tornados is inoffensive, and it is okay. Many listeners will bristle at 12 songs that essentially intend to instruct you how to live a wise and healthy life, sung by a guy scarcely older than your teenage brother with that hip nasal inflection going around among young solo acoustic acts these days. Although often compared to Beck, P.J. Olsson and Ben Folds, Lee is not a great innovator, although "Nothing Much Happens" is something of a sparkly centerpiece among relatively unremarkable two-chord singalongs like "Cigarettes Will Kill You" and the catchy "Birthday Song." An awful lot of precovered angsty territory is sloshed over again in "Burn to Shine" and "Ship My Body Home," reminding us that youth is the question and the answer, the problem and the solution ... to that elusive something that gets referred to on this record a lot, yet never actually named. As on the sleepy anthem "Tornados," Lee is attempting to figure it out, and hopefully he'll reign disappointed enough in his quest to keep searching, thus keep making records.
© Becky Byrkit /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:43:44
- Main artists: Ben Lee
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: WM Australia
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc. ℗ 1998 Ten Finger Records, Inc., under exclusive licence to Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
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