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| Beta Male Fairytales | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 29 reviews)
Sales Rank: 369
Category: Music
Artist: Ben's Brother
Publisher: Relentless
Studio: Relentless
Manufacturer: Relentless
Label: Relentless
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
EAN: 5099951659226
ASIN: B000YW96AE
Release Date: May 26, 2008 (In 13 Days)
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Availability: Not yet released
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| Tracks:
| • | Rise | | • | Beauty Queen | | • | Let Me Out | | • | Carry On | | • | Find Me An Angel | | • | I Am Who I Am | | • | Home | | • | Bad Dream | | • | Live | | • | God By Another Name | | • | Harmonica In F (Interlude) | | • | Time | | • | Stuttering (Kiss Me Again) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Great May 12, 2008
I was introduced to this CD by my daughter who asked me to listen to it. I did so and purchased a copy. An excellent, fascinating CD well worth buying.
Mesmerising album May 9, 2008
This is an unbelievably good album and must be one of the best kept secrets in the music world. All tracks are of a very high quality with no fillers. You will recognise many extracts from the tracks from radio play, TV programme background music and some adverts (I think). The melodies will whirl around in your head long after the song has finished. And you'll be quick to put on the album again at the next opportunity. This album won't disappoint.
Bet Ben's chuffed that Jamie's his brother!! April 8, 2008
I love this album. This band are fantasic both on CD and live. Saw them in Glasgow last night and can't wait until they do a return tour - brilliant musicians with a great sense of humour and magnificent fan/audience interaction. Jamie Hartman has a voice to die for!! I would strongly recommend the album, easy listening with fantastic songs that you find singing all day after listening to the CD. I wish the band every success in the future .... they deserve it!! Good luck lads, keep up the good work.
 Move along, there's nothing to see here. . . March 26, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
There is nothing wrong with this music. Unfortunately, there is nothing that right with it either. Great song-writing this isn't. Great melodies? Nope. Great lyrics? I'm afraid not. It is okay in all these areas. Nothing offensive; nothing that startles. It plods along and all the songs sort of melt into each other like slices of cheese on a piece of toast under the grill. And that's actually not a bad simile. Cheese. If this album were a pound of cheese it would be Cheddar: mild, unoffensive, instantly forgettable but you will probably not hate it.
 Brotherly love February 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
'Beta Male Fairytales' by Ben's Brother (so called because singer Jamie Hartman has a brother called Ben whom he always felt caught in the shadow of whilst growing up) is an unashamed piece of radio-friendly, quality mainstream pop/rock. Jamie's vocals have been compared with Rod Stewart's and, while I can see why that is the case, they're not quite as throaty and croaky - thankfully.
This is yet another album without any tracks that you'd absolutely die for, but instead has a consistently good, easy-paced, quality all throughout the album, making for a rewarding and enjoyable listen. In fact, when I first listened to 'Beta Male Fairytales', I almost wanted to not like it, given it's gentle pace and obviously mainstream appeal, but I just couldn't pass it by, given the beauty and craft of the songwriting. Songs such as 'Let Me Out' have an assurance of a band who could quite easily be on their fifth release and yet this is their debut. That fact alone makes this collection of songs all the more remarkable.
There just isn't a bad song on this album and I can see my affection for Ben's Brother growing with each listen. I wouldn't recommend this to indie snobs, but for people who readily enjoy the likes of Paul McCartney, Crowded House and, yes, early Rod Stewart, I would urge them to give Ben's Brother a spin. I warn you, though, you may not want to enjoy this, but you most probably will.
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