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Badly Drawn Boy, Have You Fed the Fish?

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1168741

Disk length: 50m 40s (16 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2004

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Coming In To Land (Intro) 0:23
2. Coming In To Land 1:45
3. Have You Fed the Fish? 3:47
4. Born Again 4:40
5. 40 Days & 40 Fights 3:55
6. All Possibilities 3:54
7. You Were Right (Intro) 1:11
8. You Were Right 4:52
9. Interlude 1:48
10. How 5:17
11. The Further I Slide 3:46
12. Imaginary Lines 0:45
13. Using Our Feet 4:09
14. Tickets to What You Need 2:48
15. What Is It Now 2:40
16. Bedside Story 4:49

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Review

HAVE YOU FED THE FISH? opens with the most subtle of skits before launching into the title track, a 70s-style power ballad out of the Stephen Bishop songbook. The title track fades into crunchy, imploring angry indie rock in the Modest Mouse tradition ("40 Days, 40 Fights") which shifts into a swirling disco-era dance number ("All Possibilities") then disintegrates into an earnest epic, lyrically Dylan-esque love song suite ("I Was Wrong/You Were Right"). Incorporating something like seven verses, a whistled interlude, a synth solo and a couple kitchen sinks. And that's Damon Gough (aka. Badly Drawn Boy) in a nutshell; he could be called Beck without the gimmicks, bells and whistles, but more aptly should be referred to as his ultimate own man. HAVE YOU FED THE FISH?, the prolific BDB's second record of 2002, displays the linguistic mastery of a Swiftian wordsmith, someone who loves to toy with the language while understanding the value of restraint in a well-turned phrase, a wit which can exhibit the sharpest irony but also possesses the guts to write a song as breathtakingly sincere as the aforementioned "You Were Wrong/I Was Right," a song as beautiful and as achingingly clumsy as is the truest of love. "Unlike most of his contemporaries, singer-songwriter Gough is willing to explore all sorts of styles while allowing himself to be as playful or serious as he wants"--Alternative Press.

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Have You Fed the Fish?

Tracks: 15 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 50m 41s (+0m 1s)

Have You Fed the Fish?

Tracks: 15 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 50m 45s (+0m 5s)

Have You Fed the Fish?

Tracks: 15 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 50m 47s (+0m 7s)

Have You Fed the Fish?

Tracks: 15 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 50m 47s (+0m 7s)

Have You Fed the Fish?

Tracks: 16, Disk length: 55m 6s (+4m 26s)

Have You Fed the Fish?

Tracks: 22 (+6 tracks), Disk length: 1h 18m 17s (+27m 37s)

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