"#1 Summer Jam" to me just shows another layer of Butch Walker that wreaks of his own personal CD collection. After losing interest in metal in the early 90's he got into bands like Jellyfish and this song has that influence written all over it. Fun, funky and quirky he sings "So won't you come back Sunday, Everyday's a Monday now that you're gone, Come back Sunday, kinda think you dug me".
"Letters" is truly that — intimate descriptions about simple, everyday life experiences and they are vivid portraits. The music is a large leap from his days in Marvelous 3 and the rap on Mixtape tells it all as he says "and I'm not the same person from back in the day, in the back of the class that you though was gay, no I can't find the words cause I lost them the minute they fell out of my mouth, and it's love and I'm in it so give me your lips and just let me kiss them."
Well, I for one won't be kissing Walker anytime in my lifetime but I will block out his past from "back in the day" and continue to spread the word that this is a great, eclectic, and accomplished work. "Letters" is a good name for the disc but a better name would be "Paintings" — I'm sure you'll agree when you get the disc.
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1 - Temple Stark
Yensid,
I threw this up on Advance.net.
If you are committed to good "first draft" you might want to look over the copy on Advance.net and see the small changes - and sometimes big changes. The big changes are almost always done for space, however. NB: I'm posting this message to all reviews, not singling you out at all. :-)
See?