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Album Review: The Fireman is Paul McCartney – Electric Arguments
Our boss, Mike, always finds things to live blog. I’m going to suck up to him and try to live blog a CD review. I have had the CD for almost two weeks but I have only listened to it while sharpening pencils or ignoring my ringing phone so it’s almost fresh. It’s 10:45pm. Mrs. Rock just went to bed. I’ll write a little background and then review the CD as I listen to it. There will be no second impressions, but that’s OK because I know a lot of Beatles fans will buy this and only listen to it once anyway. I’m not saying they shouldn’t. I just know how they are.
Let’s remind ourselves what The Fireman is. The Fireman is Paul McCartney and a British producer who calls himself Youth. In addition to his production experience, Youth brings knowledge of electronica and dub to the collaboration. Bass is really important in dub music, so it’s going to be pretty interesting to hear what he does with a bass player of Paul’s caliber. Paul is known to be a fan of reggae music (not just ganja), so if you think of dub as an offshoot of reggae, maybe Paul knows something about dub himself. The Fireman released two albums in the 1990s. They made a half-hearted attempt to hide their identities first time around. Now, I wouldn’t be surprised to find Electric Arguments filed under M in my local record store.
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If Beyonce Were A Boy, She Wouldn’t Sell Any Records
Money Mike also wrote about Beyonce’s new album, I Am…Sasha Fierce a couple of days ago. You can read his take here. Here’s mine.
Oh,
the time has come
for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into your own
all cause you won’t
Listen….
Those are the lyrics to Beyonce’s Listen, a fictional song based on her fictional character Deena Jones from the movie Dreamgirls. Even though some people didn’t like the song, what you couldn’t […]
Is Beyonce’s “Sasha Fierce” Just Another Sasha Farce??
I want to like Beyonce. Really I do. She’s fantastic looking. She has a fantastic voice. However, over the course of four Destiny’s Child albums and now three solo albums, she’s mostly struck me as the musical equivalent of a ton of pretty wrapping paper with no gift inside. All style and no substance. As a songwriter, she’s not especially insightful, and it doesn’t really seem like she inhabits the songs she sings the same way some less talented but more believable vocalists do. So, to make a long story short, just about every album Beyonce has been a part of has been a case of unfulfilled promise and ultimately a frustrating listening experience.
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