Half the World Is Watching Me
Mew
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Am I Wry? No | Mew | 4:53 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Mica | Mew | 2:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Saliva | Mew | 4:06 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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King Christian | Mew | 4:24 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years | Mew | 4:22 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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156 | Mew | 4:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Symmetry | Mew | 5:18 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Comforting Sounds | Mew | 8:44 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Half the World Is Watching Me (Studio Outtake) | Mew | 3:04 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years (Live 2001) | Mew | 3:18 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Mica (2001) | Mew | 3:42 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Wheels Over Me (Live 2001) | Mew | 2:42 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Wherever (Live 2001) | Mew | 5:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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156 (Cubase Demo) | Mew | 5:22 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Quietly (Demo) | Mew | 3:29 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Comforting Sounds (Do I Look Pueto Rican?) [Demo] | Mew | 7:48 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 16 Songs |
Customer Reviews
Not useless.... but not the best.
Mew has evolved over time into a life-changing band with incredible promise. Drifting relatively close to the "shoegazer" genre (if such a genre exists anymore), Mew dazzles its fans with surreal, experimental, grungy, shoegazer, and 80's pop-style across their adequate variety of musical offerings, with a decent selection of albums under their belt (a total of five, actually).
I've known about Half the World is Watching Me for a while, but it never feels like an actual album, since several of the songs on it are already on other albums, and sound a lot better on those too. It opens with Am I Wry? No, a song that also opens their phenomenal album Frengers. The version on this album is nothing near as tremendous as the version on Frengers. But it has the humble low-production charm as do most songs on Triumph For Man.
But on this album, sadly, Jonas doesn't seem to have mastered control of his voice as well as later albums. I'm sorry to offend his devout and mindless fans (that was rude of me, sorry), but Jonas Bjerre doesn't have a very great singing voice. It comes off as quite exceptional and gorgeous in later albums due mainly to the terrific production values (I know, it's amazing what they can do), but his live shows give everyone a dose of reality and this album does the same. But don't take that as a viscious swipe at his talent (even if you probably will). He's still a very talented musician. And his vocals have their own charm no matter what. And I love several songs on this album.
Mica brings some interesting variety to this album with its pulsating 80's glam feel, and its pop-friendly nature.
Saliva and King Christian are almost the same exact song, and go together almost as one. It's a calm and cheerful "coffee shop" kind of rock that bounces delightfully with hooks that are "ba-ba-bop" catchy. (There are incredible remixes of both MICA and KING CHRISTIAN out there that are worth googling).
The rest of the album are all songs from the Frengers album, so you're really just playing a repeat of the same material, but with a slightly different sound. 156 is completely different on this album than on Frengers, so you might not recognize it at first. So Half the World really feels more like a B-sides album (particually if Frengers is how you first met Mew). This iTunes edition features a slew of live performance, and some raw unpleasant sounding demos of some of the same songs. And of course, the feature of this re-release of HTWIWM is the self-titled track of the same name. Nothing to write home about, but interesting to say the least.
This will never be a favorite Mew album of mine, but I do appreciate it for what it's worth.
The Prices?!?!?!?!
The songs are plenty expensive for some dumb reason
If it wasn't four that it would be 5 stars
Biography
Formed: Hellerup, Denmark
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs By Mew
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The Zookeeper's Boy | And the Glass Handed Kites | 4:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Special | And the Glass Handed Kites | 3:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Am I Wry? No | Frengers | 4:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Beach | No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away (Bonus Track Version) | 2:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Comforting Sounds | Frengers | 8:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Snow Brigade | Frengers | 4:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Introducing Palace Players | No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away (Bonus Track Version) | 4:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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156 | Frengers | 4:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Apocalypso | And the Glass Handed Kites | 4:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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She Spider | Frengers | 4:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $20.64
- Genres: Pop, Music, Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Alternative, Indie Rock
- Released: Aug 06, 2007
- ℗ 2007 Evil Office
