The Golden D
Download links and information about The Golden D by Graham Coxon. This album was released in 2000 and it belongs to Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 44:20 minutes.
Artist: | Graham Coxon |
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Release date: | 2000 |
Genre: | Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative |
Tracks: | 12 |
Duration: | 44:20 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Jamie Thomas | 2:32 |
2. | The Fear | 3:02 |
3. | Satan I Gatan | 3:18 |
4. | Fame and Fortune | 3:35 |
5. | My Idea of Hell | 2:14 |
6. | Lake | 7:34 |
7. | F*gs and Failure | 1:54 |
8. | Leave Me Alone | 3:10 |
9. | Keep Hope Alive | 3:56 |
10. | Oochy Woochy | 4:24 |
11. | That's When I Reach for My Revolver | 3:58 |
12. | Don't Think About Always | 4:43 |
Details
[Edit]What with Blur frontman Damon Albarn stealing much of the attention for his loud-mouth antics, it seemed only natural that Graham Coxon, Blur's lead guitarist, would break out on his own for a side project. His debut solo release, 1998's The Sky Is Too High, was sort of like a collection of journal entries featuring acoustic melancholy, off-key guitar explosions and country crooning. Like The Sky, the second album reveals Coxon's appreciation for American indie rock. Whereas the first solo effort was somewhat lo-fi and reminiscent of Lou Barlow, Golden D, which is named after the musical chord, focuses on rock — the hard and fast variety — and suggests Sonic Youth and Sex Pistols. Standouts include "Jamie Thomas," a trashy punk thrasher that tributes his favorite skateboarder; atmospheric noodlings on "Lake"; the quirky horn-driven "Oochy Woochy"; and two Mission Of Burma covers ("Fame and Fortune" and "That's When I Reach for My Revolver."
Whereas Blur hired producer William Orbit (of Madonna fame) to bring out the band's delightfully sloppy side on its last album, 13, Coxon, who produced Golden D himself, masters messiness the au natural way — by making the album sound almost exactly as it would live. This, in fact, leads to the most impressive element of Golden D — that Coxon is solely responsible for everything you hear — and see — on the dozen-track album. He provided all the vocal and instrumental work (guitar and drums, mainly). He also released the album on his own label, Transcopic, and created the cover-art work — a mess of colorful, cartoonish-looking albeit violent scribbles.