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| From | Jason Damas <jason.damas@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Silver Sun |
| Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:11:32 -0500 |
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<<HOLY SHIT!! I'm going to respond to my own post.
This record surpasses ANYTHING I thought they could
come out with. Better than Neo Wave, which I liked,
but this is UNREAL! (if you like them, that is.)>>
It's funny that this should come up, especially after someone recently
talking about All Music Guide totally getting it wrong on a
late-period Association disc. I actually reviewed "Neo Wave" at the
very beginning of my career writing for AMG, nearly six years ago. At
the time I liked a few songs a lot, but felt that it was too much of a
Cheap Trick retread to be all that great, and that it sacrified some
of the Beach Boys-on-speed quality of the first album. In retrospect,
however, I think "Neo Wave" is the superior of the two discs; perhaps
not as expected, but with far more replay value and with generally
better songs and more variety.
This is, of course, the flaw of AMG: You write something ages ago that
you no longer agree with and yet it's still there, staring you in the
face (the same is true when I find poorly-written early clips--they're
like embarassing baby photos that I can't get rid of). I do think that
AMG, despite its flaws (which are more glaring since the disastrous
redesign), does a great job of cataloging everything that's out there,
and I consistently use it as a buying guide. And it's not their fault
that, over the course of six years, I re-evaluated a record again and
again and came to a drastically different conclusion; I just hope that
you all can forgive me :)
--Jason
http://www.livejournal.com/users/danabnrml9
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