King James Version (album)

King James Version, originally released by Sire Records on September 12, 2000, is the second full-length album by alternative rock band Harvey Danger. Although it garnered critical acclaim, it failed to produce a hit song, unlike the earlier Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?. After the release of King James Version, the band took a three-year hiatus.

King James Version
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2000
Recorded1999
StudioBearsville Sound Studios (Bearsville, New York)
GenreIndie rock, alternative rock
Length46:29
LabelSire Records
ProducerJohn Goodmanson, Harvey Danger, Daniel Cannistra
Harvey Danger chronology
Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?
(1997)
King James Version
(2000)
Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes)
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Entertainment WeeklyB+ [2]
Melodic [3]
Rolling Stone [4]

The album is characterized by a polished and energetic indie rock style and lyrics laden with historical, literary, and pop cultural allusions.

Track listing

  1. "Meetings with Remarkable Men (Show Me the Hero)" – 2:53
  2. "Humility on Parade" – 4:30
  3. "Why I'm Lonely" – 3:33
  4. "Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo" – 3:28
  5. "You Miss the Point Completely I Get the Point Exactly" – 4:12
  6. "Authenticity" – 2:31
  7. "(Theme from) Carjack Fever" – 3:40
  8. "Pike St./Park Slope" – 4:42
  9. "(This Is) The Thrilling Conversation You've Been Waiting For" – 2:53
  10. "Loyalty Bldg." – 6:06
  11. "Underground" – 4:39
  12. "The Same as Being in Love" – 3:29

Personnel

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gollark: I'm pretty scared of brain implants because they would probably involve computer systems of some kind with read/write access to my brain. And computers/software seem to have more !!FUN!! security problems every day.
gollark: Personally, I blame websites and the increasingly convoluted web standards for browser performance issues. Websites with a few tens of kilobytes of contents to a page often pull in megabytes of giant CSS and JS libraries for no good reason, and browsers are regularly expected to do a lot of extremely complex things. With Unicode even text rendering is very hard.
gollark: Memory safety issues are especially problematic in things like browsers, so avoiding them is definitely worth something.
gollark: > google blames c/c++ and its lack of warnings to devs about memory issues for most of the critical bugs in chrome<@528315825803755559> I mean, it's a fair criticism. You can avoid them if you have a language (like Rust) which makes them actual compile errors.

References

  1. Wilson, MacKenzie. King James Version at AllMusic
  2. Entertainment Weekly review
  3. Winberg, Pär. "Harvey Dangers - King James Version". Melodic. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  4. Rolling Stone review
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