Musea Art Review #4
TomHendricks474
Review #4 1/04
Title: One Of These Days
What is it? Opening song from the CD “Pieces’ by Brent Adair
Technical Quality: Lead vocal adequate and above average in expressive quality.
No background vocals. Guitar, bass, percussion adequate but average. Nice cover
art and lyric sheet enclosed - above average art work. But note a pet peeve of
mine - excessive packaging (as in most CD’s)
Innovative Quality : Low. Everything here has been done before.
Review: Singer/songwriter Brent Adair has pluses and minuses in this opening
song: a pleasant and engaging voice, somewhat bland lyrics, and a sparse and
lackluster background arrangement with no background vocals. Lyric sample:
“If I fall let me fall because I took too many chances... The music to the
verse is solid but chorus doesn’t deliver much punch and this in a song that
is trying to build hope and resolve. Style is folk/rock with a mostly accoustic
guitar, base and percussion sound.
I listened to the rest of the CD and didn’t find much that I liked till the
last song, “On My Own”, a simple voice and guitar tune. But this time
things worked better than the opener. It’s a reflective song with a rich and
complex guitar arrangement. Lyric sample: “I’d tell all my friends how I
can’t describe how different life looks from the other side of being on my
own... I’m not sure the exact meaning but...
I’d say, fix the opener - punch up the chorus, arrangement and lyrics. Then
put tune 11 on the flip side, and you’ll have a better than average offering.
Till then...
Contact Info: www.brentadair.com
in...@subparindustries.com
Overall Grade : 3.2 of 10 (see below)
Editor's Choice mini Review:
Modern art is the Salon art of our day. Collectively its run out of innovative
steam and deserves a 0.5.
Grading system: 9-10 Highest grade - Life's work of a master (ex. Collected
plays of Shakespeare, collected symphonies of Beethoven) 8-9 Single best work
of a celebrated master's career. 7-8. Best work of an era or genre or decade.
6-7 Best work of the year. 5-6 Very good. 4-5 More good than bad. 3-4 Average
amount of good = amount of bad. 2-3 Mostly bad with some redeeming parts. 1-2
Nothing redeemable. 0-1 So bad it is offensively bad and outrages the reviewere
for taking up that time in his life - just awful.
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Tom Hendricks tomhend...@cs.com
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Hey Tom try reviewing this site!!!!!!!.......discovered them a few
months ago.
also go here to listen to a streaming audio feed of these people's music:
http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?sgenre=World
then click on "magnitune".......listing..................you will need
DSL/cable speed to listen however.
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