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Stories We Told Tomorrow Vol. 3

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Product Details

Title: Stories We Told Tomorrow Vol. 3

Artist: Erwin McDonnelly See other items by artist

Label: Rainy Day Records

Released: January 14, 2003

Listen To Samples

1. Acquainted With Pain
2. The Beach In Winter (acoustic with The Milk Brigade)
3. Rain From Below
4. Unknown Blue Arches
5. 8 AM Train To Burlington
6. Study In Threes
7. Stories We Told Tomorrow
8. Stories We Told Tomorrow (acoustic)
9. Stories We Told Tomorrow (acoustic with Magpie Field)
10. Stories We Told Tomorrow (extended play with triangle solo)
11. Ignorance and Paper Cups of Brandy
12. Part the Twelfth
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Editorial Reviews

Review from Scamazon.com
Like every artist featured on VH1's Inside Track, Erwin McDonnelly is said to "blend pop, rock, and jazz for a creative new sound" and has a vague British accent, despite being born and raised in Siskatway, Massachusetts. The mop-haired 24-year-old McDonnelly has outdone himself with Stories We Told Tomorrow Vol. 3, a debut album dripping with raw emotion and wrong piano chords. From the aching opener "Acquainted With Pain" to the stirring finale "Part the Twelfth," he sings stories of growing old, cancer, death, walking on the beach, death from cancer, and growing old on the beach. He does seem to rely on these themes a little heavily (The bassist audibly sighs the fourth time McDonnelly mentions his mother's death). The CD's smash hit was "Stories We Told Tomorrow," and McDonnelly does not disappoint with four versions of the song. The extended-play fourth version features percussionist David Hallaway's epic triangle solo. When reviewing this CD, we were surprised to find that there is no Stories We Told Tomorrow Vol. 1 or Vol. 2. McDonnelly told Rolling Stone about the title: "Well, being very candid overall about the recording, I believe, the disc, doing the albums non-sequentially, that is not forwards, I suppose, I think that was a conclusion that we reached. It's a very semantic experience... moving forward in time but backward in the universe. It's a way of reacting very... temporally with the audience." -- Dirk Thompson
User Reviews

23 out of 25 readers found this review helpful:

A Good Debut, by xxTunezzz - December 1, 2003
Stories We Told Tomorrow is bold, lush, brilliant, painful, beautiful, ethereal, and fragrant. While many people have compared it to The Circle Is Not What It Seems's early work, I find it a little more brash than TCINWIS. Hallaway's triangle solo is soul-enriching and heart-rending in its very simplicity. This CD is, I think, one of the most extranulitical and formentizing works of the year. Bravo!

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Not What I Expected, by A listener - August 4, 2003
I was a little disappointed with this album after seeing McDonnelly open for Sons of Nothing at the Last Chances coffeehouse in Eugene. Where was "Hermeneutics, Part II"? That was a groundbreaking blues-core work! Where was "Anti-Semitic Babysitter"? Where was "Euclid vs. The Square"? I guess us McDonnelly fans can only hope he releases a compilation album soon.

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