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Oh, Inverted World | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Shins
Label: Sub Pop
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  279 reviews
Sales Rank: 1058
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 550
UPC: 098787055023
EAN: 0098787055023
ASIN: B00005JSHW
Release Date: June 19, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Caring Is Creepy | | • | One By One All Day | | • | Weird Divide | | • | Know Your Onion! | | • | Girl Inform Me | | • | New Slang | | • | The Celibate Life | | • | Girl On The Wing | | • | Your Algebra | | • | Pressed In A Book | | • | The Past And Pending |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Something extraordinary is afoot in Albuquerque. The Shins' first big-time record, Oh, Inverted World, combines mysterious narratives with golden song structures, resulting in lavish and opulent indie pop. Touches of Neutral Milk Hotel's lyrical majesty and the nostalgic swirl of Echo and the Bunnymen abound. But the Shins' music--rich with acoustic guitars, flickering rhythms, and Casio-tone keyboards--is distinct and peculiar. Worry mixes with abstraction throughout, and while James Mercer sings, "You led no celibate life / No skirt while chemicals danced on your head / You stole the keys to this ride / And your fables are falling tonight," you may wonder if he's been routing through your fondest, most troubling memories. This vital album is easily among 2001's most distinguished recordings and one of the best Sub Pop releases to date. --Thom Arno
Album Description
Hailing from Albuquerque, NM, The Shins sprung from the ashes of Flake/Flakemusic in 1997 (though those previous incarnations date back nearly a decade) - same members, different instruments, different approach. Counterpoint guitars have given way to a single guitar pitted against calculated keyboard passages; swarming indie rock machinations led to pop-based melodic endeavors.
Album Description
Japanese pressing of 2001 album includes one bonus track 'Spagnum Esplanade'. P-Vine.
Album Details
Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track
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| Customer Reviews: Read 274 more reviews...
 Oh, great album!!!! November 25, 2008
I love this album. And this week the mp3 sale for $3.99, there is no reason NOT to own it.
 Oh, Inverted World Review October 28, 2008
The first time I heard the Shins, I thought they sounded like modern-day Beatles. Oh, Inverted World does not disappoint. The entire album is good, not just one song that gets played on the radio too much. Good vocals, harmony, and great guitar.
I would have given five stars, but the CD is only about 45 minutes long.
 Bland July 29, 2008
As somebody else wrote, this has been done a lot of times before. It is extremely derivative 60's influenced guitar pop that is not that great but also not that bad. Actually quite faceless and bland.
Best pop/rock album this decade June 4, 2008
While this album was released in 2001, it still remains one of the best albums this millennium. The Shins have since released a couple more spectacular efforts, but neither of them have eclipsed "Oh, Inverted World". The opening track "Caring Is Creepy" sets the stage for a very surreal experience. Sweeping keyboards and smooth guitars give this album a very peaceful listening experience and is best enjoyed with a nice pair of headphones and closed eyes. "The Past and Pending" is the ending track and serves perfectly to slow everything back down and give the album a graceful exit. Don't worry, though; the album does pick up in the middle with the energetic "Know Your Onion" and "Girl Inform Me", a couple of very catchy rock tunes. This album puts me in a good mood every time I listen to it, and if you're a fan of pop/rock with a lot of acoustics then I'm sure you will feel the same.
Pleasant, derivative fun June 1, 2008
(Actually **1/2, but Amazon doesn't allow half stars.)
This is pleasant, melodic and fairly intelligent indie pop rock that does nothing that hasn't been before but does it rather well. Standout track "Know Your Onion!" is a catchy, jaunty ditty about adolescent alienation and includes a lyric about finding one's favorite record "lying in wait at the Birmingham mall." Since these guys are American, from New Mexico, that's a little silly, and it's even more so to reflect that the slowly strummed and murmured "Weird Divide" could just as easily have been titled "We Like Syd Barrett." This is pretty good pop though, offering annoying and endearing prettiness in about equal measure.
Song by song:
1 Caring Is Creepy ***
2 One by One All Day **
3 Weird Divide ***
4 Know Your Onion! ***
5 Girl Inform Me **
6 New Slang **
7 The Celibate Life ***
8 Girl on the Wing ***
9 Your Algebra **
10 Pressed in a Book **
11 The Past and Pending *
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