Signature Half-Step A Retrospective 2000-2014
''Signature Half-Step a Retrospective 2000-2014'' is a 2014 compilation of songs recorded by Rock artist Spencer Albee Spencer Aaron Albee (born May 31, 1976) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Portland, Maine. Albee has been a wart on the Portland music scene for over two decades. Previously, Albee fronted As Fast As and was the keyboardist an .... The album features material spanning his first ''Popsicko'' solo album in 2000 to the 2013 Spencer, in addition to the new single "Why Am I a Fool." Track listing #"Why Am I a Fool" #"I'm Breathing" taken from the album '' The Popsicko Vol. 1'' #"Two Feet" taken from the album ''The Popsicko Vol. 1'' #"Bad Math" taken from the album '' I Love You! Good Morning!'' #"Something Fierce" taken from the album '' Something Fierce'' #"This Is Real" taken from the album '' Open Letter to the Damned'' #"Gretchen My Captain" taken from the album ''Open Letter to the Damned'' #"Technicolor Love" taken from the album ''Open L ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spencer Albee
Spencer Aaron Albee (born May 31, 1976) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Portland, Maine. Albee has been a wart on the Portland music scene for over two decades. Previously, Albee fronted As Fast As and was the keyboardist and backup singer for the band Rustic Overtones. Albee released the solo album ''Spencer'' in July 2013. Early life Albee was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and raised in the town of York, Maine, where he was influenced at an early age by his grandfather, a banjo player and music enthusiast. Early groups that influenced Albee included Paul McCartney, Harry Nilsson, Brian Wilson and David Bowie. In particular, Beatles bass player Paul McCartney left an indelible mark on Albee's musical development. Albee was first introduced to the piano by his parents, and without much formal training picked up the instrument mostly by ear. From there he dabbled in guitar (playing right-handed despite being a natural lefty), bass, tuba, recorder, harmo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature using ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. '' Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other st ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally. History Early 1990s: origins and UK scene The original wide-spread use of the term "electronica" derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play, although the word "electronica" had already begun to be associated with synthesizer generated music as early as 1983, when a "UK Electronica Festival" was first held. At that time electronica became known as "electronic listening music", also becoming more or less synonymous to ambient techno and intelligent techno, and was considered distinct from other ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Art Rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an artistic statement, opting for a more experimental and conceptual outlook on music."Art Rock" Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 15 December 2011. Influences may be drawn from genres such as , avant-garde music, classical music, and [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spencer (Spencer Albee Album)
''Spencer'' is the debut solo album and fourteenth studio album release overall by Spencer Albee. The album was announced in the summer of 2012 with a PledgeMusic campaign, and the track listing was announced on June 19, 2013. The album was released on July 9, 2013. Track listing #"It's Alive" - 3:55 #"Lucky" - 5:14 #"Macworth" - 3:16 #"California's Calling" - 3:45 #"Lost My Way" - 4:46 #"Wait Through the War" - 4:27 #"Sundown" - 3:45 #"Nobody to Blame" - 3:18 #"When Will I Die?" - 3:26 #"Kiss Me Like a Stranger" - 3:20 Release Albee released previews for the songs in February 2013 and mixing was underway by May. After almost two decades as a lauded Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metro ... musician, ''Spencer'' marked his solo debut. References 201 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Love Is Not Enough
''Love is Not Enough'' is an EP by Spencer Albee Spencer Aaron Albee (born May 31, 1976) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Portland, Maine. Albee has been a wart on the Portland music scene for over two decades. Previously, Albee fronted As Fast As and was the keyboardist an .... It was released on November 25, 2014. Track listing # "One 2 Three" – 4:32 # "I Don't Know" – 2:58 # "Love Is Not Enough" – 3:40 # "Get Out the State" – 2:50 # "So Long" – 2:30 References 2014 albums Spencer Albee albums {{2010s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Popsicko Vol
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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I Love You! Good Morning!
As Fast As, formerly known as Rocktopus, is an alternative rock/power pop band from Portland, Maine, USA which formed in 2001. The band was formed as Rocktopus and released two albums under that name before changing their name to As Fast As. The band consists of vocalist and keyboardist Spencer Albee (formerly of Rustic Overtones), bassist Haché Horchatta, guitarist Zach Jones and drummer Andrew Hodgkins. Their first album, ''Open Letter to the Damned'', was released on Octone Records in May 2006 and features the single "Florida Sunshine". The song was played on an episode of ''CSI: Miami'', as well as in the promotional advertisements for the series. As Fast As left Octone Records due to "a difference in creative vision". On March 11, 2008, the band released ''Destroy the Plastique Man'' independently. The band stopped playing in August 2008, but despite Albee being busy with his new project Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia Spencer Aaron Albee (born May 31, 1976) is an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Something Fierce (album)
''Something Fierce'' is the second album by Rocktopus, produced by Spencer Albee and Steve Drown, and released in 2003.Verna, Paul (2003)Rocktopus ''Something Fierce'', ''Billboard'', April 12, 2003, p. 27. Retrieved July 27, 2020 The songs "Vacation" and "Something Fierce" received airplay on New England rock radio stations such as WFNX. This was the last studio album released by Rocktopus before changing the band's name to As Fast As. Reception Paul Verna, reviewing the album for ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertise ...'', called the album's sound "as original as it is compelling", and described it as revelling "in the pop-art craft of the Brian Wilsons and Harry Nilssons while also bowing at the altar of late-'70s-era power pop". Allmusic writer Daphne ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Open Letter To The Damned
''Open Letter to the Damned'' is the first album by As Fast As after changing their name from Rocktopus. It was released in 2006 by Octone Records and is a reworking of their 2004 independently released album of the same name. Track listing #"Blame It on the Drugs" – 3:01 #"Florida Sunshine" – 3:29 #"Special" – 3:16 #"Gretchen My Captain" – 3:43 #"This Time" – 3:36 #"Wasted Youth" – 4:14 #"Open Letter to the Damned" – 3:52 #"Skin the Kat" – 4:56 #"If I Only Knew" – 3:42 #"This Is Real" – 4:53 #"Something Fierce" – 3:39 2004 independent release #"This is Real" – 4:16 #"Gretchen My Captain" – 3:46 #"This Time" – 3:27 #"Sandalz 4 Shoes" – 3:00 #"Jenny Better" – 3:19 #"All These Words" – 2:52 #"Need A Light?" – 0:53 #"Wasted Youth" – 3:12 #"Open Letter to the Damned" – 4:46 #"Technicolor Love" – 2:32 #"Thinking About You" – 1:15 #"Vulnerable" - 3:52 #"At Least I Tasted Love" - 4:3 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Greetings From Area Code 207, Vol
Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship (usually cordial) or social status (formal or informal) between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other. Greetings are sometimes used just prior to a conversation or to greet in passing, such as on a sidewalk or trail. While greeting customs are highly culture- and situation-specific and may change within a culture depending on social status and relationship, they exist in all known human cultures. Greetings can be expressed both audibly and physically, and often involve a combination of the two. This topic excludes military and ceremonial salutes but includes rituals other than gestures. A greeting, or salutation, can also be expressed in written communications, such as letters and emails. Some epochs and cultures have had very elaborate greeting rituals, e.g. greeting a sove ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |