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| From | Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: I dropped everything to buy album XXX |
| Date | Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:00:25 -0700 (PDT) |
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> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:10:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: govango <govango@yahoo.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: "I dropped everything > to buy 'album XXX'
> Message-ID: <234808.45432.qm@web39708.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
>
> I read a review of Girlfriend by Mtthew Sweet in the old
> Tower Records magazine Pulse, called the Rhino Records store
> in New Paltz. They had a copy
> so I drove over and grabbed it. Still one of my all time
> favorite albums.
>
> michael
>
It's 1979. I'm a high school senior who has become a full-fledged, skinny-tie New Waver in terms of musical taste. Syracuae's 95X, which was far from being the most ambitious rock station in American radio with regard to playlist eclecticism, starts playing a turbocharged power pop number called "Can't Imagine" by some guy named David Werner. I run out and buy his newly-released eponymous album. It turns out to be an amazing disc, running a surprising gamut of styles but packed with energy, hooks, and tough guitars on just about every song.
Werner vanished into the ether as a recording artist, never to release another album. (He's since become a low-profile songwriter and producer who has worked with people ranging from Billy Idol to Tom Jones.) But *David Werner* remains one of my all-time favorite albums to this day.
Gregory Sager
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