18. "Jesse's Girl" - Frickin' A: A remake of Rick's Springfield's 80's song on envy, lust and self-doubt - not much changed. A better inclusion from this band would have been their "Merry Merry Merry Frickin' Christmas" about the Red Sox win at the World Series - "Schools out Christmas break/Back to Boston, the Red Sox in four straight /First the Yankees then St. Louis /The curse, reversed, the Bambino really blew it /Derek Jeter's lost his mind /Trippin’ on a broom stick, better luck next time /Have a Merry, Merry, Merry Frickin' Christmas /All you New York Yankees fans can kiss this /The tree the gifts the mistletoe kiss /Swing, a miss, Steinbrenner’s really pissed /Have a Merry, Merry, Merry Frickin' Christmas ". Heh
19. "Tangled Up In Me" - Skye Sweetnam: The interestingly named Ms. Sweetnam riffs on unexpressed desire and "reverse psychology" as a means of seduction in this girlie-pop number - "Can't you see I want you by the way I push you away, Ya! /Don't judge me tomorrow by the way I'm acting today /Mix the words up with the actions do it all for your reaction Ya! /Hey! Hey! Get tangled up in me "
20. "You're My Better Half" - Keith Urban: A fast country-rock song, dealing with the relative worth of it all, true companions and fulfilment - "They say behind every man is a good woman /But I think that's a lie /'Cause when it comes to you I'd rather have you by my side "
In all, a good collection, representative of the top acts around, with an interesting consistency of themes, intentional or not. The album will be available on March 15, available on Amazon currently for pre-order.
Article comments
1 - swingingpuss
Versatile and insightful review - one feels like listening to this CD attentively now :)
2 - Al Barger
I take it from this review that I'm considerably more jaded about pop music than you.
3 - Temple Stark
Stefani's song takes on a great meaning when you watch the video. There it's about writer's block and has an Alice in Wonderland like feel.
Writer's block brings tears to my eyes and the video does to. Weird huh.
That Frickin A's song you quote sounds great and I'm going to have to go find it. I am curious why Jessie's Girl. The original is really very good - from a soap star no less. Red, Hot and Blue Love was another of his hits.
We learn a bit more about the music here and a bit more about the reviewer with Al's post.
4 - Aaman
That's a compliment, I hope, Temple:)
5 - Temple Stark
yep.
have you watched the Stefani video?
6 - Aaman
not yet - will check on AOL
7 - Joe
I really love Gwen Stefani, but I wish she would go back to her roots and get back in the studio with the rest of No Doubt. The music that they produced together was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the stuff she's doing on her own.