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| From | "Mark Tate" <zumpp99@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: The new Owsley CD |
| Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:42:07 -0500 |
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Same initial impression here. I've only listened once and it did not hit
home...
>From: <nonstoppop@cox.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: The new Owsley CD
>Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:31:46 -0500
>
>Normally, I’d start off an E-mail like this with “maybe it’s just me,”
>except that I already know that at least one of my friends agrees with me,
>so it clearly isn’t JUST me. But the question I present to Audities is:
>is anyone else disappointed with the new Owsley album?
>
>When I first put in the disc and it began to play, it sounded so little
>like the Owsley I’ve come to know and love over the years 1999-2003 as I’ve
>spun his self-titled CD over and over again…such a dramatic change (at
>least to my ears) in both vocals and music…that, in my head, I quickly
>began working up an elaborate explanation for the transformation that
>involved a pressing error at the CD manufacturing plant. Unfortunately,
>when I heard the song title sung, I realized that, no, there had been no
>error; this was, indeed, the new Owsley CD…and it was so bland that it
>could’ve passed for everything else currently playing on the radio.
>
>Even worse, that first song, “Be With You,” is the one being pushed to
>radio…so, apparently, the INTENT is to sound like everything else currently
>playing on the radio.
>
>I’m not saying that Owsley doesn’t have the right to adjust his sound to
>score greater commercial success if that’s what he wants and he feels that
>that’s the way he can achieve it…but it doesn’t mean that I can’t be
>disappointed about it.
>
>Overall, it isn’t that the album’s bad. Indeed, I’m sure it’ll grow on me
>after a few spins. But, after the initial spin, it definitely didn’t live
>up to my hopes and, yes, my expectations…
>
>Bummer, dude…
>
>
>
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