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| From | Mark Tate <zumpp99@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: David Werner |
| Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:18:16 -0400 |
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It's a fine album. A good rip can be obtained at the Power Pop Criminals blog (http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/search?q=werner).
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:06:27 -0700
> From: mmyers1446@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: David Werner
> To: audities@smoe.org
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> in NYC, that sure was the hit :)
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> From: "ccdatsme@aol.com" <ccdatsme@aol.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 9:39:41 PM
> Subject: Re: David Werner
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> I seem to recall the "hit" being "What's Right."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Sent: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 5:34 pm
> Subject: David Werner
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> > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:35:15 -0400
> > From: ccdatsme@aol.com
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Re: I dropped everything to buy album XXX
> > Message-ID: <8CC99A0433676F0-D8C-35CF@webmail-d071.sysops.aol.com>
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> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Ah, yes. I remember writing an (unsold) spec review
> > of that album for Creem, commenting that "Can't Imagine"
> > sounded so much like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers that
> > Werner should break his own hand and file for bankruptcy.
> >
> > (I meant that as a compliment.)
> >
> > Another fave from that album was "Too Late To Try," which
> > woulda been worthy of The Raspberries.
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> Yep. Fantastic power pop song. The other song that got some airplay was the
> tongue-in-cheek Bowiesque "Every New Romance". Also, Ian Hunter guest-starred on
> the song "High Class Blues". It was a fitting collaboration, since several of
> the songs on Werner's previous two albums had a Mott the Hoople feel to them.
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> Gregory Sager
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