Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:57 pm
i liked it. for the most part. but i agree with alot of what j$ said.
It's well produced as always, the instruments all sound stellar. I agree with previous posts that the first several songs all kind of have the same tempo and overall sound, so as an album you need some stuff in there to break up the monotony. The musicianship is pretty solid, loose in some spots, but isn't that what this genre is supposed to sound like? Loose?
I'll have to get my daughter to listen to this and give me some feedback from that perspective. I'm probably not as qualified as her to offer up a fair assessment. I tried writing a song like this once and played it for her and a friend and they both almost simultaneously said, "Well the first problem with this is you sing to good for this style". If I use that as a guage, I would say the vocals are pretty good. That doesn't mean I sing better than the singer here, it means he does this style better than I do.
[EDIT] The live, 3 guys and zero production means dick to me. It's still better than some of the stuff I've heard here.