album of the day: Hayden - Everything I Long For

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:24 pm

Hayden - Everything I Long For

Quick Info:
-Originally released 1995
-Debut album from Toronto singer/songwriter
-Sounds like: roots rock, post-punk, lo-fi folk/rock bedroom music
-Lyrics about life, tragedy, and bunkbeds
-RIYL Neil Young, Iron & Wine, Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Highlights: Bad As They Seem, In September, Hardly

*Full album YSI available on request.

Gordo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:16 pm

Good choice. Don't like it as much as Elk-Lake Serenade, but still give it a spin from time to time. That song about Susan Smith killing her kids, though, just creeps me out.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:36 pm

MCaputo Wrote:

Good choice. Don't like it as much as Skyscraper National Park, but still give it a spin from time to time.

KPH · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:47 pm

Hasn't really stood the test of time too well, but damn, a few of those tunes are still pretty impressive (esp. bad as they seem). I thought I remember it coming out in the spring of 96 though? There was a Bob Mould-hosted 120 Minutes that featured "bad as they seem" right at the top, which I remember taping that May.

This was a good, mopey record to have along for a break-up...

daystar · **Joined:** Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:14 pm **Posts:** 3298

alongwaltz Wrote:

Hayden - Everything I Long For

Quick Info:
-Originally released 1995
-Debut album from Toronto singer/songwriter
-Sounds like: roots rock, post-punk, lo-fi folk/rock bedroom music
-Lyrics about life, tragedy, and bunkbeds
-RIYL Neil Young, Iron & Wine, Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Highlights: Bad As They Seem, In September, Hardly

*Full album YSI available on request.

ooooh. i love, love, LOVE this album.
but haven't heard it in FOREVER because i only have it on tape.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:00 pm

As I've mentioned several times, I very much respect the artist but have a hard time handling his mumbling delivery.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:02 pm

KPH Wrote:

Hasn't really stood the test of time too well, but damn, a few of those tunes are still pretty impressive (esp. bad as they seem)..

This is exactly the way I feel, 'Bad As They Seem' still sounds great.; I listened to the whole album about 2 months ago and promptly shelved it for another couple of years.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:20 pm

KPH Wrote:

I thought I remember it coming out in the spring of 96 though?

That's what AMG says, but my cd has a 1995 copyright on it. I didn't buy it when it first came out so I don't know.

I like Elk-Lake Serenade more too, but it was thunderstorming out and lighting was flashing around the yard, so this seemed fitting.

FT · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:32 pm

Speaking of Hayden, when's he gonna put out a new album? Or did he decide to go out on top, after I ranked Elk-Lake Serenade the #1 album of 2004?

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:01 pm

KPH Wrote:

There was a Bob Mould-hosted 120 Minutes that featured "bad as they seem" right at the top, which I remember taping that May.

Thanks for making me feel not quite as dorky for thinking the EXACT SAME THING when I saw the '95 release date. I taped that one, too. From early '96-mid '97 I had quite the library of 120 Minutes episodes.

As to the album; wasn't intrigued enough back in the day when I heard a few songs but I might cotton to it now that I've aged and mellowed, relatively speaking.

A Northern Soul · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:23 pm **Posts:** 3742

i havent heard this in quite a while. i remember bad as they seem kicking ass, so pm sent.

album of the day: Hayden - Everything I Long For

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