''Together We're Heavy'' is the second release from Dallas symphonic rock group
The Polyphonic Spree
The Polyphonic Spree is an American choral rock band from Dallas, Texas that was formed in 2000 by singer/songwriter Tim DeLaughter. The band's pop and rock songs are augmented by a large vocal choir, and instruments such as flute, trumpet, f ...
. Produced by
Eric Drew Feldman
Eric Drew Feldman (born April 16, 1955) is an American musician. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley, C ...
and released in Japan on June 30, 2004, Europe on July 12 and North America on July 13. It includes the hit singles "Hold Me Now" and "Two Thousand Places". The album was released by
Hollywood Records
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, and represents the band's first "true" album (their previous release, ''
The Beginning Stages of...'', was recorded as a demo and released only by popular demand).
The US version of ''Together We're Heavy'' contains an additional bonus DVD (entitled "The Adventure of Listening") while the Japanese version contains three bonus songs.
It reached number one on the ''
Billboard
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Top Heatseekers
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albums chart in the United States.
Track listing
All songs written by
Tim DeLaughter
Tim DeLaughter (born November 18, 1965) is an American rock musician. He is the frontman of the bands Tripping Daisy, The Polyphonic Spree, and Preteen Zenith.
At the 61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, DeLaughter was nominated for O ...
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#"Section 11 (A Long Day Continues/We Sound Amazed)" – 8:32
#"Section 12 (Hold Me Now)" – 4:30
#"Section 13 (Diamonds/Mild Devotion to Majesty)" – 4:55
#"Section 14 (Two Thousand Places)" – 5:19
#"Section 15 (Ensure Your Reservation)" – 1:39
#"Section 16 (One Man Show)" – 4:58
#"Section 17 (Suitcase Calling)" – 8:48
#"Section 18 (Everything Starts at the Seam)" – 1:54
#"Section 19 (When the Fool Becomes a King)" – 10:38
#"Section 20 (Together We're Heavy)" – 6:30
#"Bonus Section 1 (The Best Part)" (Japanese release only)
#"Bonus Section 2 (Mercury Tea)" (Japanese release only)
#"Bonus Section 3 (Working Out the Kinks
emo 2002" (Japanese release only)
"The Adventure of Listening" DVD:
*"A Blissed Out Occasion" – Live at the Summersonic Festival, Tokyo, 2003
**Contains "The Anthem for Summer Camp", "It's the Sun", "Light & Day", "Everything Starts at the Seam" and "When the Fool Becomes a King"
*"Air Near the Ground" – Live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago, 2003
**Contains "Soldier Girl", "Hanging Around the Day (Parts 1 & 2)" and "It's the Sun"
*"Confessions of an Instigator" – An interview with Tim DeLaughter
*"Moving Pictures"
**Contains the music video for "Light & Day (Single Version)", the animated video for "Light & Day (Orchestral Version)" and "The Tramp (A Vignette)" (previously titled "Cane" and played to the song "Ensure Your Reservation")
Singles
*"Hold Me Now" CD single (July 26, 2004)
#"Hold Me Now" (Radio Edit – UK Edit)
#"Hold Me Now" (Album Version)
#"Working Out the Kinks" (Demo)
*"Two Thousand Places" CD single (December 8, 2004)
#"Two Thousand Places"
#"The Best Part"
#"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"
Personnel
Adapted from
AllMusic
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Musicians
*Tim DeLaughter: Lead vocals, guitars, percussion,
tubular bells
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells wit ...
, piano, organ, samples, various noises
*Ryan Fitzgerald: Acoustic and electric guitars, banjo
*Joe Butcher: Pedal steel
*Evan Hisey: Keyboards, organ, synthesizers
*Jesse Hester: Piano, vocals
*Mark Pirro: Bass guitar
*Rick Nelson: Double bass, violin, viola
*Bryan Wakeland: Drums, percussion
*Audrey Easley: Flute, piccolo, tin whistle,
Electronic Wind Instruments
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*Louis Schwadron:
French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...
*Toby Halbrooks:
Theremin
The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named afte ...
*James Reimer: Trombone,
glockenspiel
The glockenspiel ( or , : bells and : set) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibraphone.
The ...
*Logan Keese: Trumpet, flugelhorn
*Jennifer Jobe, Jennie Kelley, Jessica Jordan, Julie Duncanville, Kelly Repka, Michael Turner: Lead, backing and
choir
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which s ...
vocals
Production
*Produced by Eric Drew Feldman, Jeff Levison and The Speekers
*Recorded and engineered by Andrew Paul Baker, Ronnie Katz, Allen Sides, The Speekers and Dave Willingham
*Assistant engineers: Chris Bell, Joel Pelphrey, Darrell Thorp
*Mixed by Rich Costey, The Speekers and Dave Willingham
*Mix assistant: Claudius Mittendorfer
*Digital editing: Rail Jon Rogut
*Mastered by Mark Chalecki and Ted Jensen
Charts
Release history
CD
*UK release (July 12, 2004)
*US release (July 13, 2004)
*Japanese release (June 30, 2004)
DVD-Audio 5.1 Surround + DTS-Encoded track
*US release (September 14, 2004)
References
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The Polyphonic Spree albums
2004 albums
Hollywood Records albums
Good Records albums