Discover a New Band (Owen)

I know absolutely none of you have heard of Mike Kinsella, despite him having realeased albums under the name Owen since 2001, and other bands since 1989

But I think all of you should really give him a chance because i think he's written some of the most beautiful songs I've heard. And I have extremely high standards for acoustic music, but this is just amazing.

I've known about Owen for about a year, and his other bands for about two but I just recently bought his latest album "At Home With Owen" and I can never stop listening to it.

You can look him up on myspace music. Just search Owen, and he'll be the first profile to come up; if not, he should have a picture of an asian baby on it.

For you downloaders, I suggest you download "Use Your Words," "Bags of Bones," "The Sad Waltzes of Pietro Crespi," "Never Meant,"+ the original version by his old band, American Football, and "the ghost of what should've been."

I strongly suggest listening to Pietro Crespi first, both for Myspace users and downloaders.
Then Bags of Bones for downloaders, and use Your words for myspacers.
The Ghost of What Should've been is a bit dissattracting if you don't like swearing.
But it's just the f-word twice+sexual reference.

Please please please. He's so good. You will NOT be dissapointed.

 

I do really like acoustic music, but do you know any of his influences? When bands have been influenced by bands I like I tend to listen to them.

But I'll check them out in a while.

 

I found some of his songs on youTube. Not bad at all. So far, i like "Bags of Bones", "Bad News", and "One of These Days". It's some pretty comforting music. He also seems like a really down-to-earth kind of person. Pretty cool.

 

Haha, I really can't guess.
I know he likes Metallica, Van Halen and Velvet underground. Since he occasionally does covers of them on tour, and has Femme Fatale on his latest album.