Hedonism

About Hedonism

Hedonism is the third album by Bellowhead, released on 4 October 2010. It was recorded in Abbey Road Studios and was produced by John Leckie. The band also developed a new ale named after the album. Some of the band members took part in the brewing process.

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The album sold 60,000 copies, becoming the best-selling independent folk LP of all time.

Contents

Track listing

Bonus track (iTunes exclusive)

Personnel

Jon Boden – lead vocals, fiddle, saw

Benji Kirkpatrick – guitar, bouzouki, mandolin

John Spiers – melodeon, Anglo-concertina

Andy Mellon – trumpet

Justin Thurgur – trombone

Brendan Kelly – saxophone, bass clarinet

Ed Neuhauser – Helicon, Tuba

Pete Flood – percussion

Rachael McShane – cello, fiddle, backing vocals

Paul Sartin – fiddle, oboe

Sam Sweeney – fiddle, pipes

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Notable quotes

“He who on conviction does and pursues and chooses what is pleasant would be thought to be better than one who does so as a result not of calculation but of incontinence; for he is easier to cure since he may be persuaded to change his mind.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1146a30
“Many sin for love of gain, he who desires riches silences his conscience. Just as the stake is settled between two stones, so sin wedges itself between buying and selling. The house of him who does not keep himself firmly in the fear of the Lord will soon be knocked to the ground.”
— Ben Sira, Sirach chapter 27: 1-3
“There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.”
— William Ellery Channing, “Self-Culture”
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet,” Essays, Second Series (1883), p. 9
“The most poisonous diatribes against the senses have not been said by the impotent, nor by the ascetics, but by those impossible ascetics, by those who found it necessary to be ascetics.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Ch. 5 “Morality as Anti-Nature” § 5.2 (Ludovici trans.) 4:44
“Things of the senses are real if considered as perceptible things, but unreal if considered as goods.”
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1972), p. 45

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