Michael Behm "Saving America" has 3 spots in the top ten in Australia
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Alternative
#10
Power Pop
#2
Pop
#3
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Now That's The Ticket! Michael Behm has a Ticket To Heaven
Now That's The Ticket! Michael Behm has a Ticket To Heaven
Artist: Michael Behm
Album: Saving America
Track: Ticket To Heaven
From Vancouver, here's a Canadian artist that has a great powerpop sound and concern for America.
From a review at Melodic:
This is really smart powerpop for the music lovers that demand something more than simple bubblegum pop choruses, Behm's songs goes deeper than that.I recently discovered this guy on his 2005 album "Love songs for the emotionally impaired" and knew his new album would be something extra, I have listened to "Saving America" quite a lot lately and must say it's even better than the previous record.
The half instrumental "Underground Epic" is classic rock at it's best and the piano based "Lincoln" would make John Lennon proud. "If I had a life" bring thoughts to Bleu and songs like "Ticket to heaven" and "If I could learn to fly" could've been featured on Tal Bachman's excellent 1999 album.
The title track "Saving America" takes the listener back to the heydays of E.L.O, lovely! Well, he might not save America but he could easily save your day!
MusicRX
Artist: Michael Behm
Album: Saving America
Track: Ticket To Heaven
From Vancouver, here's a Canadian artist that has a great powerpop sound and concern for America.
From a review at Melodic:
This is really smart powerpop for the music lovers that demand something more than simple bubblegum pop choruses, Behm's songs goes deeper than that.I recently discovered this guy on his 2005 album "Love songs for the emotionally impaired" and knew his new album would be something extra, I have listened to "Saving America" quite a lot lately and must say it's even better than the previous record.
The half instrumental "Underground Epic" is classic rock at it's best and the piano based "Lincoln" would make John Lennon proud. "If I had a life" bring thoughts to Bleu and songs like "Ticket to heaven" and "If I could learn to fly" could've been featured on Tal Bachman's excellent 1999 album.
The title track "Saving America" takes the listener back to the heydays of E.L.O, lovely! Well, he might not save America but he could easily save your day!
MusicRX
"The Art Of Letting Go" (single release)
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“The Art Of Letting Go”
A three minute pop song may not be the first place you’d search to find a valuable life lesson. Happily, that is exactly what B.C.-based singer/songwriter/producer Michael Behm provides on his compelling new single, “The Art Of Letting Go.”
Initially, the listener is seduced by the gently haunting melody and Behm’s convincingly plaintive voice (the female-sounding backing vocals are actually him in falsetto), shimmering guitar playing, and crisp production. Gradually, the significance of the refrain - “the hardest part to learn is the art of letting go” - takes hold, just as its creator intended.
“I really believe that when you surrender to everything, your music, your love, your life, then you can unconditionally engage in them,” Behm explains with typical eloquence. “It’s about disengaging from your own sense of importance, and then becoming capable of having fun. People may think I am referring to a relationship, and it is based on one, your relationship to yourself.”
With “The Art Of Letting Go,” Behm has created the pop equivalent of a Zen koan, a concise statement that enables the listener (or reader) to focus on an important truth. He also successfully tackled another philosophical theme with a popular earlier track, “High Power,” and Michael, a voracious reader, describes his approach to lyric writing as “taking ideas that great minds present to you and finding meanings in some shape or form.”
His knack for framing these thoughts in easily accessible and highly melodic pop-rock songs is Michael Behm’s calling card. “The Art Of Letting Go” is the title track of his upcoming fourth album, a collection of new songs guaranteed to stimulate the brain while pleasing the ears.
This new material has already found a welcoming audience in a seemingly unlikely locale, the Dominican Republic. You see, the multi-faceted Behm is also a successful entrepreneur, one who built and ran a very popular bar/nightclub, The Voodoo Lounge, in the Caribbean for the past five years.
Last year, he wrote a song called “My Banana Republic,” a look at “a sunny place for shady people.” Michael donated it to a local radio station in the Dominican as part of a fundraising drive to help the area’s schoolchildren, and a live simulcast to premiere the song drew a capacity crowd.
Now, via a song you’ll definitely find very difficult to let go, it’s our turn to be exposed to the manifold talents of Michael Behm.
“The Art Of Letting Go”
A three minute pop song may not be the first place you’d search to find a valuable life lesson. Happily, that is exactly what B.C.-based singer/songwriter/producer Michael Behm provides on his compelling new single, “The Art Of Letting Go.”
Initially, the listener is seduced by the gently haunting melody and Behm’s convincingly plaintive voice (the female-sounding backing vocals are actually him in falsetto), shimmering guitar playing, and crisp production. Gradually, the significance of the refrain - “the hardest part to learn is the art of letting go” - takes hold, just as its creator intended.
“I really believe that when you surrender to everything, your music, your love, your life, then you can unconditionally engage in them,” Behm explains with typical eloquence. “It’s about disengaging from your own sense of importance, and then becoming capable of having fun. People may think I am referring to a relationship, and it is based on one, your relationship to yourself.”
With “The Art Of Letting Go,” Behm has created the pop equivalent of a Zen koan, a concise statement that enables the listener (or reader) to focus on an important truth. He also successfully tackled another philosophical theme with a popular earlier track, “High Power,” and Michael, a voracious reader, describes his approach to lyric writing as “taking ideas that great minds present to you and finding meanings in some shape or form.”
His knack for framing these thoughts in easily accessible and highly melodic pop-rock songs is Michael Behm’s calling card. “The Art Of Letting Go” is the title track of his upcoming fourth album, a collection of new songs guaranteed to stimulate the brain while pleasing the ears.
This new material has already found a welcoming audience in a seemingly unlikely locale, the Dominican Republic. You see, the multi-faceted Behm is also a successful entrepreneur, one who built and ran a very popular bar/nightclub, The Voodoo Lounge, in the Caribbean for the past five years.
Last year, he wrote a song called “My Banana Republic,” a look at “a sunny place for shady people.” Michael donated it to a local radio station in the Dominican as part of a fundraising drive to help the area’s schoolchildren, and a live simulcast to premiere the song drew a capacity crowd.
Now, via a song you’ll definitely find very difficult to let go, it’s our turn to be exposed to the manifold talents of Michael Behm.
Michael Behm “Saving America is winning over hearts in the US”
I LOVE when a full developed artist arrives out the blue, flying totally under my radar until suddenly - BAM! - they land in my CD player and I fall in love with music that suprises, challenges, emotionally moves me and brings me out on the other side of joy. Michael Behm is one such artist and his two albums, the 2009 release "Saving America" and the 2004 "Love Songs For The Emotionally Impaired" are ones that I will pushing for many years to come. I review them here together, bundled in the hopes you just trust me and pick them both up as they are *that* pleasurable.
The signposts of the sounds here will be familiar to many Not Lamers - Jason Falkner, Owsley, The Grays, The Rembrandts, Mike Viola and The Candy Butchers, Bleu and Jim Boggia. LISTEN to the soundbites of both albums and the quality to should be self-evident. The production quality, the arrangements reach skyward and do not stint on low-ambition. Behm is not interested in writing cookie-cutter pop music but works of kaleidoscopic tapestries lasting value. Bless the man, he delivers.
"My partner in crime Par Winberg raved about Vancouver son Michael Behm earlier here on melodic.net but this is the first time I hear an album with Behm. It`s his 2005 album "Love songs for the emotionally impaired" but I`m glad I did because it`s such a classy piece of work for powerpop freaks like myself. Soundwise Behm stand somewhere between Owsley, Todd Rundgren and Jellyfish. I`m impressed by the production where the guitars are crystal clear and every other instrument lies perfect in the mix, Behm has a real nice voice that fits this sunny pop rock like a glove. " Melodic.net. This guy has been flying totally unknown by fans at places like Not Lame and I see very little written about him on Google, which is insanely perplexing, folks. Let us change that! This material not only merits investment on your shelves, but a bit of extra typing of letting the blogosphere and `net know that Michael Behm is an artist to savor.
Bruce Brodeen
The signposts of the sounds here will be familiar to many Not Lamers - Jason Falkner, Owsley, The Grays, The Rembrandts, Mike Viola and The Candy Butchers, Bleu and Jim Boggia. LISTEN to the soundbites of both albums and the quality to should be self-evident. The production quality, the arrangements reach skyward and do not stint on low-ambition. Behm is not interested in writing cookie-cutter pop music but works of kaleidoscopic tapestries lasting value. Bless the man, he delivers.
"My partner in crime Par Winberg raved about Vancouver son Michael Behm earlier here on melodic.net but this is the first time I hear an album with Behm. It`s his 2005 album "Love songs for the emotionally impaired" but I`m glad I did because it`s such a classy piece of work for powerpop freaks like myself. Soundwise Behm stand somewhere between Owsley, Todd Rundgren and Jellyfish. I`m impressed by the production where the guitars are crystal clear and every other instrument lies perfect in the mix, Behm has a real nice voice that fits this sunny pop rock like a glove. " Melodic.net. This guy has been flying totally unknown by fans at places like Not Lame and I see very little written about him on Google, which is insanely perplexing, folks. Let us change that! This material not only merits investment on your shelves, but a bit of extra typing of letting the blogosphere and `net know that Michael Behm is an artist to savor.
Bruce Brodeen
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