Has a Good Home
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Has a Good Home is the first album by Canadian musician Owen Pallett
, under the name of his solo project Final Fantasy
.
Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto, Ontario. He won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds....
, under the name of his solo project Final Fantasy
Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto, Ontario. He won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds....
.
Track listing
All songs written by Owen Pallett except where noted.- "None of You Will Ever See a Penny" – 2:32
- "This Is the Dream of Win & Regine" – 3:24
- "Your Light is Spent" – 3:06
- "Furniture" – 2:02
- "The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead" – 3:31
- "Took You Two Years to Win My Heart" – 3:58
- "The Chronicles of Sarnia" – 2:49
- "↩" – 0:39
- "Adventure.exe" – 2:01
- "Library" – 3:11
- "That's When the Audience Died" – 4:37
- "Learn to Keep Your Mouth Shut, Owen Pallett" – 1:34
- "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy" – 2:45 (Kazumi TotakaKazumi Totakais a Japanese video game composer and voice actor who composed many major Nintendo games, including Mario Paint and Animal Crossing. He occasionally also does voice acting for Nintendo games, including Yoshi from the Mario and Yoshi series. He is also one of the various composers who worked on the...
, Owen Pallett) - "Please Please Please" – 3:29
- "Better Than Worse" – 3:58 (Bobby BirdmanBobby BirdmanBobby Birdman is musician Rob Kieswetter's stage name. Kieswetter is originally from Nevada City, California, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He has released albums on Hush Records, Not Not Fun, Fryk Beat, States Rights Records...
, Owen Pallett) - "The Sea" – 2:15 (Not included on TomLab version)
Track List Information
- The Win and Regine referred to in "This Is The Dream of Win & Regine" are Win ButlerWin ButlerWin Butler is the lead vocalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and his brother William Butler are both members of the band.-Life and career:...
and Regine ChassagneRégine ChassagneRégine Chassagne is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician and singer, and a founding member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler.-Life and career:...
of Arcade Fire, the band with whom Pallett plays live (and often opens for) and for whom he arranged the orchestral sections on their albums. The title of the song is also a reference to "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" The Dream of Evan and Chan" is a song by Dntel , featuring the vocals and lyrics by Ben Gibbard. The song was recorded for the album Life Is Full of Possibilities in 2001...
," a song by DntelDntelJames Scott "Jimmy" Tamborello, more commonly known as Dntel , is an electronic music artist. He is sometimes cited as James Figurine, the co-programmer and vocalist for the electropop outfit Figurine. Other projects include Strictly Ballroom, Headset and The Postal Service. Tamborello has...
and Ben GibbardBen GibbardBenjamin "Ben" Gibbard is an American musician known as a member of several successful indie rock bands. He is the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, and is also known for his project ¡All-Time Quarterback! and his first band, Pinwheel.-Personal life and career:Gibbard was...
that was the seed of the pair's collaboration as The Postal ServiceThe Postal ServiceThe Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band composed of vocalist Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel and Headset.-Background:...
. - "The Sea" also appears on the Final Fantasy Young Canadian MothersYoung Canadian MothersYoung Canadian Mothers is an EP by Canadian musician Owen Pallett, released in 2006 under the name Final Fantasy. It was limited to 500 copies.-Track listing:#"This Is the Dream of Emma & Cam" – 3:11#"The Sea " – 3:07...
7" as "The Sea (Tenderizer)". This recording is distinctly different from the Has a Good Home recording, sounding softer and less like a sea-shanty, and favouring a mix of instruments as opposed to Pallett's violin and voice alone. - "Adventure.exe appeared on the Orange commercial, advertising the new Dolphin, Racoon, Panther and Canary packages.
- Track 13, "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy", takes its melody directly from the song "Star Maze" from Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, which plays in the final level of the Space Zone.
- "Better Than Worse" was originally recorded by Bobby BirdmanBobby BirdmanBobby Birdman is musician Rob Kieswetter's stage name. Kieswetter is originally from Nevada City, California, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He has released albums on Hush Records, Not Not Fun, Fryk Beat, States Rights Records...
on his album Exhausted, The Cost Of. That album was entirely a cappellaA cappellaA cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
and was recorded whilst he was riding his bicycleBicycleA bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....
. The instrumentation heard on Has A Good Home was written by Pallett.