The Magnificent Tree

The Magnificent Tree
Studio album by Hooverphonic
Released 26 September 2000 (2000-09-26)
Genre
Length 42:04
Label Epic
Producer
Hooverphonic chronology
Blue Wonder Power Milk
(1998)		 The Magnificent Tree
(2000)		 Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane
(2002)
Singles from The Magnificent Tree
  1. "Mad About You"
    Released: 2000
  2. "Vinegar & Salt"
    Released: 2000
  3. "Out of Sight"
    Released: 2000 (remix)
  4. "Jackie Cane"
    Released: 2000

The Magnificent Tree is the third studio album by the Belgian band Hooverphonic, released on 26 September 2000. The cover features the band in front of a tree in the town of Kieldrecht, Belgium.[1]

Four singles were released from the album: "Mad About You", "Vinegar & Salt", "Out of Sight" and "Jackie Cane". The "Vinegar & Salt" and "Out of Sight" singles contain "Green" and "Sunday Morning", respectively, tracks composed for The Magnificent Tree that did not make it onto the final release. By November 2002, the album had sold 265,000 copies worldwide,[2] including 85,000 copies in Belgium alone.[3]

Background

The album has cost 8,000,000 Bef (170,000$) to record, surely making it one of the most expensive Belgian albums ever. Some of the reasons for this costs come from the fact that the first three weeks of recording were trown away, as they apparently were heading in the wrong direction. The record company hopes to sell 500,000 of it, much more than the 150,000 of the previous two albums (the band just received a gold album for 25,000 copies of "Blue Wonder Power Milk" here in Belgium). [4]

Composition

"The Magnificent Tree" contains a sample of "Guinnevere" by Crosby, Stills and Nash. "Waves" is remarkably similar to "Changes", a 1966 psychedelic pop song by The Association.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic57/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
NME6/10[7]
Q[8]

The Magnificent Tree holds a score of 57 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic based on reviews from four critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5] MTV.com felt that, with the album, "Hooverphonic's sound has become increasingly hip and cosmopolitan, slowly processing out everything that made it so alluring in the first place", noting that "the nagging sense of something menacing behind these songs has practically disappeared."[9] Conversely, according to AllMusic, "Classic embryonic vocalic beauty from Geike Arnaert still carries the translucence of the band's signature ethereality" and "songs such as 'Out of Sight' and 'Mad About You' are thoroughly dramatic and make for an illustrious listen".[6]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Autoharp"Alex Callier4:21
2."Mad About You"Callier3:43
3."Waves"Callier4:01
4."Jackie Cane"
4:20
5."The Magnificent Tree"
3:55
6."Vinegar & Salt"Callier3:20
7."Frosted Flake Wood"Callier3:17
8."Everytime We Live Together We Die a Bit More"Callier3:35
9."Out of Sight"Callier3:55
10."Pink Fluffy Dinosaurs"
  • Arnaert
  • Callier
3:50
11."L'Odeur animale"Callier3:47

Personnel

Hooverphonic

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/Sales
Belgium (BEA)[10] 2× Platinum 100,000*

^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ The Magnificent Tree on Google Maps
  2. ↑ https://books.google.hr/books?id=QA0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=hooverphonic+album+sales&source=bl&ots=OjVlCUyp_V&sig=OMBpQYUa4Hx9KPKUbRydVvBXDjg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRp9CfitPXAhUQJewKHSzODd4Q6AEIZzAJ#v=onepage&q=hooverphonic%20album%20sales&f=false
  3. ↑ http://broadcast-history.com/Archive-Music-and-Media/00s/2002/MM-2002-11-23.pdf
  4. ↑ http://houbi.com/belpop/groups/hoover.htm
  5. 1 2 "Reviews for The Magnificent Tree by Hooverphonic". Metacritic. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  6. 1 2 Wilson, MacKenzie. "The Magnificent Tree – Hooverphonic". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  7. ↑ "Hooverphonic : The Magnificent Tree". NME. 12 May 2001. Archived from the original on 17 May 2001. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Hooverphonic: The Magnificent Tree". Q (171): 124. December 2000.
  9. ↑ John, Kevin. "Hooverphonic: The Magnificent Tree (Epic)". MTV. Archived from the original on 10 December 2000. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  10. ↑ "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums 2004". Ultratop. Hung Medien.
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