- The Great Wide Open
Infobox Album |
Name = The Great Wide Open
Type = EP
Artist =Funeral for a Friend
Released =October 15 2007
Recorded = Barfly, London (tracks 2-9)
Genre =Alternative rock ,post-hardcore
Length =
Label = Atlantic
Producer =Gil Norton (track 1),Romesh Dodangoda (tracks 2-9)
Reviews =
*BBC Wales (favourable) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/funeralforafriend/pages/great_wide_open.shtml link]
*Kerrang! Rating|4|5
*Time Off Rating|2|5 [http://www.timeoff.com.au/index.php?area=Archive&pg=42&subarea=37&sel=7881&showcontent=7881 link]
Last album = "Tales Don't Tell Themselves "
(2007)
This album = "The Great Wide Open"
(2007)"The Great Wide Open" is a "mini-album" from
Funeral for a Friend , the title track taken from the album "Tales Don't Tell Themselves ". Originally planned as the third single from the album (as announced in a news post onAugust 14 ), it was later deffered by two weeks and expanded to a mini-album in order to release the live tracks recorded in August (see below).Music video
The song's
music video shows the band playing in a little shack lost on a beach at night with waves resting on the shore. Around the middle of the video, some green, red and white lights flash throughout the house.Mini-album
Atlantic Records released a very special mini album on 15 October. Entitled 'The Great Wide Open', it includes the track of the same name from the 'Tales Don't Tell Themselves' album as well as the video that is currently in rotation but also 8 classic live tracks - the 1st 2 EPs 'Between Order & Model' and 'Four Ways to Scream Your Name' - in full recorded live at the Barfly in London in August 2007. These tracks are not available anywhere else and are exclusive to this release.
Tracklisting
# "The Great Wide Open" - 3:33
# "10.45 Amsterdam Conversations" (Live) - 4:14
# "Juneau" (Live) - 4:11
# "Red is the New Black" (Live) - 6:00
# "The Art of American Football" (Live) - 2:48
# "This Year's Most Open Heartbreak" (Live) - 3:54
# "She Drove Me to Daytime Television" (Live) - 4:52
# "Kiss and Makeup (All Bets Are Off)" (Live) - 3:32
# "Escape Artists Never Die" (Live) - 6:07
# "The Great Wide Open" (Video) - 3:33External links
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuEPlIjwmkw "The Great Wide Open" music video] on
YouTube
* [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=269978 "Mini-Album press release"]
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