We Are All Famous, by Jim of Seattle

We Are All Famous

by Jim of Seattle

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“We Are All Famous is pop eclecticism at its very best. If music is a game, We Are All Famous is a practical game piece and Jim Of Seattle is a very spirited player. Others may give up on the game due to exhaustion, but Jim Of Seattle is not in it to win it, but merely to play for the spirit of playing. For that, he is a gold medal winner.” John Book

“From the carnival intro of Overture through the folk/psych and sixties farfisa rock of Everybody Now to the Oingo-Boingo-ish deviltry of Laboratory Rat, this album begs a complete listen. Give it one and you get equal parts fringe rock with classical interludes and the occasional cross between glee club and Hi-Los which practically sounds like recordings from a monastery. The small compositions, for they are worthy of that designation, fade in and out seamlessly, the distance between one and the next timed to perfection.” Frank Gutch Jr.

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1.	Overture 01:22		buy track
2.	Everybody Now 03:13		buy track
3.	Laboratory Rat 02:21 video	info	buy track
4.	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 00:46		buy track
5.	Interlude I 00:40		buy track
6.	One Beautiful Summer 02:39		buy track
7.	A Conversation 02:49		buy track
8.	Black Lung 03:08		buy track
9.	Cloud-Cuckoo Land I 01:51		buy track
10.	Cloud-Cuckoo Land II 02:01		buy track
11.	Cloud-Cuckoo Land III 01:22		buy track
12.	When She Landed 01:52		buy track
13.	Interlude II 00:55		buy track
14.	OK 03:15		buy track
15.	Dear God 02:19		buy track
16.	The Martians Are Going to Eat Us 01:44		buy track
17.	We Are All Famous 03:09		buy track
18.	Welcome to Windows 04:22		buy track
19.	ABCD Puppies 02:52		buy track

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2 bonus tracks, Labratory Rat (original version) and Dear God (original version), have been added to the complete album download.

Jim: For years my music has been very diverse, and while I've had enough music I thought was good enough for a CD, I've never felt like I had enough in any one style to be able to make a whole homogenous CD. The mix of musics would be too dissimilar, and it wouldn't hold together as a satisfying whole, but be just a random collection of songs that didn't go together but happened to be by the same guy. So yeah, I'd thought about it a lot, but nothing ever happened. I couldn't solve that eclecticism problem. And which style was really me? I didn't know. All of them at one time or other.

Then the Green Monkey wanted to hear a collection of my songs, and I auditioned for it 3 CDs of wildly diverse variety, I think it was 60 tracks. When it pointed at the dozen or so it liked best, it was an eclectic mix to be sure, but it also revealed this weird unity that I hadn't noticed in my music before. Once we settled on this collection of 17, the first thing I did was sit down to sequence them, and when I did, the character of the whole album revealed itself. I realized that if I re-wrote this song here, tweaked that song there, re-imagined that part like so, it wasn't so miscellaneous after all. Sequencing the order that the songs would go in was the first thing I did for this project, and doing so solidified my vision for the whole process thereafter. Now instead of being just a collection of my songs, it had an identity as a larger single work. And just like that the eclecticism problem was gone. And what I ended up with was pretty much exactly what that original vision was.

Video for Labratory Rat is here youtu.be/hGUrv-rwrK0

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released January 1, 2013

All songs by Jim of Seattle, except Black Lung by Tim Armstrong; The Martians Are Going to Eat Us by Jim of Seattle and Madi Owen; Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star traditional
Arrangements, engineering, vocals, instruments etc. by Jim of Seattle except for these folks: Tom Dyer: mastering and makethingssoundbettering; Patrice Janda: vocals – OK; Madi Owen: solo violin everywhere; vocals – Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The Martians Are Going to Eat Us; Jim Graham: bass - Everybody Now, We Are All Famous; Marc Griffin: lead guitar - Black Lung, When She Landed Cover paintings by Tyson Grumm. Cover design by Jim of Seattle
Thanks to: Tom Dyer and Green Monkey Records, Songfight.org, Bill Leiren, Erik Bennion, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Tyson Grumm, Berton Averre, Hummie Mann, Steve Rabow
Songs © 2012 by Jim Owen (ASCAP)

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