song feedback and post thread

[Helmut83]

Well, he's American, so I guess anyone who speaks Spanish sounds Mexican to him.

[jrmugz]

Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released", from the 1978 concert film "The Last Waltz", featuring The Band(among others)

I gotta give that one a 4.8 out of 5 stars, Chippa; that was an outstanding take of a great great classic Bob Dylan song.
A little more funkier than the original, like you say; and the choir of all-star vocalists really made is shine as well.
Guess I really oughtta check out that movie sometime. Really enjoyed that a lot!

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For mine, I'll go with "A Promise Made is a Promise Kept" by Randy Stonehill. Really like the vocal performance on it and the production is amazing, IMHO. The words have been a lot of comfort for me, over the years, as they have always seemed wise and true to me, personally.

I also really like the soprano saxophone on it, which seems unique outside of jazz stations and fits in nice with the song, a song that seems to be saying "yeah, this is one of those lite FM sounding songs and proud, so deal with it".



Jim

[Helmut83]

Arrg! I tried to review your song, Jim, but as often happens the video wasn't available in my country. I'll wait until someone else does it.

[Platypus]

Randy Stonehill - A Promise Made Is a Promise Kept

4 out of 5

Randy Stonehill was a little too 'merican for me to be really drawn to, so I'm not familiar with that much of his material. The lyrical message is strong enough here, the song not that memorable but quite OK, and the Soprano Sax is smooth, as you'd expect from Mark Douthit. Likewise musicianship and production from capable Nashville names. A couple of unfortunate things do spoil it a little for me. The use of a swimmy reverb that I find fatigueing, and the piano part from co-writer Rick Elias sounds exactly like one of the piano routines in the accompaniment generation program Band-In-A Box. But I can't justly mark it down on that basis, and give it a 4.


For my offering, I'll hark back to Chippa's comment about not being familiar with the band BAD who performed Working for the Man (written of course by Lefty Wilbury). I burrowed in and found out BAD was the working name of a production duo at Albert Studios, Bruce Brown and Russell Dunlop - BAD is Brown And Dunlop. They did production for various Australian bands and albums, including The Reels, so here's one of theirs, Quasimodo's Dream:

[jrmugz]

The Reels - "Quasimodo's Dream"

Star rating 4.3 out of 5

Really like the easygoing feel of it, and the intersting percussive doorbell type of rhythm. Decent vocalist, easy on the ears, can understand the words easy enough.

The chorus is really good, reminds me of something The Police would have put on their last couple albums.
Betting that may have been an influence on the song.

The lyric reminds me of how sometimes life gives us so much of what we want, that we realize that we actually want something else. Like how in the The Bible they asked God for quail instead of manna in the desert, so He gave them so much that they hated it and couldn't stand it anymore.

A good reflection for thinking about what is REALLY satisfying in life. Not sure if the song finds the answer, but pointing to the question itself, is a good place to start.
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For mine, Sir Paul doing a cover of one of a fifties song he must have liked, because he did it here on his "Run Devil Run" CD of all cover songs and about three originals. This one is a cover song. A really big fan of it and the crooning on it, up there with "Oh, Darling" though he doesn't quite shred with the vocals on this one as he did on that; but still a very good vocal performance, IMHO, of a very good song, IMHO. For my part, not sure I've ever heard him sing with so much soul, as he does on this one.

Paul McCartney - "Lonesome Town"



Jim