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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Connells, Mavericks, "Worth the price of admission" by J. Borack |
| Date | Mon, 07 Apr 2003 23:48:55 -0500 |
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I'll defend MAVERICKS -- I think it is full of wonderful songs. If it
counted as a dBs album, I'd have to rank it ahead of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and
maybe even with LIKE THIS. Stamey was on a songwriting roll, as IT'S
ALRIGHT, his major label solo debut, was pretty damned good too.
Mike Bennett
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>From: garymaher@juno.com
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Connells, Mavericks, "Worth the price of admission" by J.
>Borack
>Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:32:28 -0400
>
>On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:02:38 -0400 audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> > I'll have to heartily disagree with him on including Connell's "Fun and
> > Games" on that list. If John can't fine anything else on there to like
> > besides "Hey Wow", I have to seriously question his hearing :-).
>
>And Boylan Heights is even better, IMHO. (Cue Jeff Brenneman . . .)
>
> > Including the Holsapple/Stamey album in the list is odd since he admits
>the
> > album is "not bad", and the first track "Angels" is just as good as
> > "Geometry", or nearly so. And it's followed by another cool track "I
>Know
> > You Will". I'm sure there are more in there that I'm just not
>remembering at
> > the moment.
>
>I like "I Know You Will" best, even though it's a bit close to The Sound
>of Music's "I Lie", which is even better. On the whole, I would agree
>that Mavericks is "not bad" -- even disappointing, in light of The Sound
>of Music and earlier dB's material. I know I was expecting more . . .
>
>
>
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