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Old 10-12-2017, 05:47 PM   #501 (permalink)
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Old 10-12-2017, 06:06 PM   #502 (permalink)
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Tell you what: if I quit I'll listen to her entire discography, and the discogs of three other artists of your choice, no holds barred. But I'm not going to quit.
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Old 10-12-2017, 07:28 PM   #503 (permalink)
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Superb album.
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Old 10-12-2017, 08:48 PM   #504 (permalink)
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Superb album.
They have that really funny song that Gym Class Heros covered. Their version always made me laugh because he was like "Don't you look at my girlfriend! She's the only one I got budadada".
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Old 10-12-2017, 10:46 PM   #506 (permalink)
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Wow didn't know Swifty dropped an album. Also if you didn't mind Syd so much. You can check out The Internet album that came out 2015. She does the vocals for the band. Pretty good stuff that you might end up liking. Obviously whenever you get time since you are busy with this list.
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Superb album.
Supertramp is yet another one of those bands where, like Marillion before I started exploring them recently, I know the name and feel like I should know some of their songs, but realize that I can't recall even one. Runrig is another such band.
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Old 10-13-2017, 04:43 AM   #508 (permalink)
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They have that really funny song that Gym Class Heros covered. Their version always made me laugh because he was like "Don't you look at my girlfriend! She's the only one I got budadada".
That's "Breakfast in America", one of their biggest hits.
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Wow didn't know Swifty dropped an album. Also if you didn't mind Syd so much. You can check out The Internet album that came out 2015. She does the vocals for the band. Pretty good stuff that you might end up liking. Obviously whenever you get time since you are busy with this list.
If I remember, I think I wasn't that impressed with Syd. But that Swifty one is definitely going on my AOTY list. Glad you're still hanging in there and reading, man.
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Supertramp is yet another one of those bands where, like Marillion before I started exploring them recently, I know the name and feel like I should know some of their songs, but realize that I can't recall even one. Runrig is another such band.
Songs you should know or have heard of: "Breakfast in America", "The Logical Song", "Dreamer", "It's Raining Again". Albums you should check out: Breakfast in America, Famous Last Words, Even in the Quietest Moments, Crisis? What Crisis? Crime of the Century and the live album Paris. The first solo album from Roger Hodgson (who has left the band but was one of the founders), In the Eye of the Storm, is worth checking out too.
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Old 10-13-2017, 09:04 AM   #510 (permalink)
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Album title: Brett Young
Artist: Brett Young
Genre: Country Pop
Nationality: American
Release date: February 10
Position in Discography: Debut
Fear Factor: Very High
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Average RYM Score: 2.52
Everything about this screams that I'll hate it: the guy's name, his pretty-boy image, the fact it's a debut and, most importantly, the genre. I like country, but country pop is a hard sell to me. It's kind of one of the worst fusions of music – not the worst, obviously, but I don't feel country and pop music have any business being within a thousand miles of each other. I'll give him credit for writing most of the songs (or co-writing them anyway) but you see, the thing for me about country (and I accept I am no expert, nor even close to it) is that country – real, honest country – is built on the experiences and the realities faced by its main proponents. When Cash sings about Folsom, you know he's been there. When Nelson bemoans farms failing, yes it's not his farm but you can be sure he knows someone for whom this is their story. When Crystal, Dolly or Emmylou weep about broken hearts (their own or those they've broken) you believe them. Why? Because they've been through it, they've experienced it, or at least allow you to believe they could have.

This new brand of “young” country pop stars, from the likes of Randy Travis and Garth Brooks to Faith Hill and Shania Twain, just don't seen experienced enough to have undergone these calamities, and mostly what they sing about are subjects which I, personally, don't consider important to the bones of country. Mostly, they seem to be singing to make money and have hits, whereas the old school country guys and gals sing from the heart: the story, the experience is paramount, the rewards secondary. All of which makes it very hard for me to treat country pop stars with anything less than contempt, as if they're polluting the country gene pool.

So back to our man Brett. Well mostly he's singing about love and having his heart broken, but hey, he's in his twenties so sorry, but I'm not going to expect that he's experienced anything more than any other twenty-something guy has at this stage. Pretty puerile really. I see he mentions that what he writes about in most of the songs he has experienced, and that's something, certainly, but as I say, what he sings about here is nothing special or outstanding, and it doesn't mean anything to me.

Check out more from this artist? No
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? If I can avoid it, no


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