I Am The Greatest

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Total Tracks: 16   Total Length: 51:25

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Southpaw Grammar

stavrosthehamster

This is without hesitation one of my Top 5 greatest Irish albums of all time. An album that really delivers from start to finish full of wit, compassion, intelligence and heart. Dave Couse is one of the finest lyricists that Ireland has ever produced. For wit check Slipping Away, I Lied and Take It Easy On Me. For compassion check the beautiful Blind Faith and Creatures Of Craze. For intelligence check Endless Art and the title track and for heart check I Am Afraid and When I First Saw You. "Whatever happened to Good Music?" Couse asks in the closing track. You've just found it. Download it!

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Probably their Best

Zordom

Great to see this on emusic. Old vinyl copy is well worn out. It should have been huge at the time but didn't do too much outside of Ireland. Jam packed full of great tunes. Still sounds great!

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quite simply...

brennser

....one of the best albums you have never heard....a great, underappreciated bands creative peak....I Am Afraid may be one of the greatest committmentphobia songs of all time....."Its not that I'm not strong, its just that I'm not strong enough for you"....brilliant

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Like nothing else.

Gabh

Slightly twisted pop bursting with ideas, great lyrics. Sardonic and seriously off-kilter.

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a house is not a holiday

Britishmatt

No, they're not always easy on the ear but I was glad to find this on emusic, not on iTunes, CD can't be had for love nor money, my old cassette copy wearing out. For a few weeks in 1992 this was my favorite album. From the agit-pop of I Don't Care, the twisted folk of You're Too Young and the whatever- that- is of Endless Art (a list of birth and death dates of dead, white (mostly), men over a quasi classical background) all the way through to the title track, Edwin Collins production is excellent and stretches the band as never before.

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I Am the Greatest is the unusual but intriguing album from Dublin, Ireland’s A House. In places melodious with a bent twist; in others, dissonant with an arresting groove. Picture the Velvet Underground nursed on Celtic roots. Highlights: the title track’s dissection of the price of fame and “Endless Art,” essentially a roll call of dead. – Roch Parisien