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| From | <drewmacdonald@ca.rr.com> |
| Subject | Cause never was the reason for the evening (was: America The Beautiful) |
| Date | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:14:43 -0800 |
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I was a fan of the band back in the day, and I like Schlesinger and Iha enough to check out the new record, but even as a kid I was less than impressed by some of America's more, uh, "free-form" lyrics.
No high school Tennyson remains in my skull, but this does:
So please believe in me when I say I'm spinning round round round round, smoked glass stained bright colors, image going down down down, soapsuds green like bubbles.
Wow, man.
--Drew
Drew
> > Has anyone picked up the brand new album by America, that's produced by
> > Adam Schlesinger and James Iha?
>
> I've been listening to it for a large chunk of the past week, and once you
> get past the "America? AMERICA?!?!?!?" part (which, arguably, you could have
> started getting over as soon as you heard that Schlesinger was involved),
> it's been a satisfying listen. There's plenty of jangle, the harmonies are
> still great, and the songs are solid. If anything, I worried about the
> cloyingness factor, and that doesn't really creep in until very late in the
> album. "Indian Summer", "Always Love", "Work To Do" -- some great stuff. On
> rhapsody.com, Eric Shea writes that "indie rockers will be amazed at how
> much all of this simply sounds like early Teenage Fanclub." (I think he's a
> little off base -- it sounds more like *latter-day* TFC, but anyway...) I
> would think that there'd be a lot of takers for _Here & Now_ 'round these
> parts.
>
> -steve
>
>
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