The "u" word needs to die in a fire already.
Predictably, I didn't like this album much at all. Nothing downright wrong with the abilities of the writers or musicians involved, but you don't get a gold medal just for not tripping over your own legs.
I'll give a nod to whomever wrote the melody to the opening track, "Songbird", but otherwise, this album was nothing but a procession of melodies and arrangements so predictable I felt like every bit of it was telegraphed seconds in advance.
Banal love songs, banal love songs and more banal love songs. Some rock'n'roll, some twist, some show tunes, some country, etcetera, but nothing was interesting at all. There's pretty good energy on the album, but none of these songs are keepers. This is really just the shallow mainstream pop of it's time. I don't think anyone could argue against that. And with "it's time", I mean the 50's.Oddly enough, this collection of songs is from 1971 (gotta imagine most tracks are written before then), so it must have seemed like quite the anachronism even back the. You could be listening to The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Procul Harum, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan or any number of interesting fairly mainstream artists at the time, or you could listen to the this profoundly unadventurous, simplistic fluff.
One of the songs sounded like a nice track to waltz to if you're 90 years old.
Very boring music performed well. That's not worth a lot to me.
Voted "disliked it".
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" when they agree, only to turn around and be a dick when they disagree. The rest of your response below the above line is really just more of the dismissive attitude you started out with.
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