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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1820730)

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Artiste: David Roberts
Nationality: ?
Album: Better Late Than Never
Year: 2011
Label: Avenue of Allies Music
Genre: AOR
Tracks:
Best thing I never had
Better late than never
Someone else's song
Before I go
Stay with me tonight
Be gentle with my heart
Eighth wonder
This is how I say goodbye
If I woulda been there
What I've been missing
Chronological position: Second album
Rank: Noob
Comments: Try as I might, I have not been able to find a scrap of information on this guy. Even the nationality tag on Discogs says “Europe”. Thanks a lot! So I've no idea who he is, if he was with some big AOR band, or if he's even still alive. No thanks to Wiki or even Google, who keep sending me to the wrong pages. Anyway, this is his second album and I'm in the mood for some AOR I've not heard before. Fergie Frederiksen was a real find a few years back, so maybe we'll hit gold again. Or regret ever hearing the name David Roberts. Meh, nothing really grabbing me so far. “Stay with me tonight”, though a nice ballad, borrows way too much of its melody from Steinman's big hit for Air Supply, “Making love out of nothing at all” to impress me on its own merits. “Be gentle with my heart” reminds me of another song (Richard Marx's “Quit playing games with my heart” I think) and “Eighth wonder” is just terrible. I'm hearing a hodge-pog of third-rate AOR, disco and some soft rock/pop; almost a pastiche of everything that is bad in the genre. This guy ain't no Fergie! Oh, and a trite Country ballad to end. Sigh.
Intention: Never again
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This is a good instance of it being appropriate to judge something by its cover.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1821583)

This is a good instance of it being appropriate to judge something by its cover.

Spot on. :thumb:
And the title is weirdly inappropriate too! In this case, far better the latter than the former. Take my word for it.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1821583)

This is a good instance of it being appropriate to judge something by its cover.

So it's an Emilio Estevez album of Bruce Springsteen covers?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1821595)

So it's an Emilio Estevez album of Bruce Springsteen covers?

Even that would be preferable to this lame, boring, uninspired collection of third-rate AOR soft rock knockoffs.

Whoever came up with the concept of soft rock should be shot in the back of the head btw.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1821619)

Whoever came up with the concept of soft rock shoot be shot in the back of the head btw.

And their whole family line shoot be shot in the back of the head too.

Too bad you guys don't know anything about soft rock. Though I did attempt to educate in the past...sigh.

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 1821628)

Too bad you guys don't know anything about soft rock. Though I did attempt to educate in the past...sigh.

I tried to let you educate me on smooth jazz with your journal. You failed and lost all credibility as far as taste goes.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1821629)

I tried to let you educate me on smooth jazz with your journal. You failed and lost all credibility as far as taste goes.

No, I'm just on a higher level than you are and had the same mindset you did....like eight years ago when I first joined this forum. It turns out dismissing entire genres of music you have little-to-no-experience in is wrong. Who woulda thunk it? I can show you a door, but if you don't walk through it then nobody can help you. ;)

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 1821628)

Too bad you guys don't know anything about soft rock. Though I did attempt to educate in the past...sigh.

Capitalist pig dog.