5つ星のうち4.0Definitely Jad's most accessible record, no question.
2012年6月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I'm a massive Half Japanese fan and love it because the dense, chaotic, driving, wonderful band can contain Jad in his excentricity in a mix like Dylan and the Band. I've waded through about 10 of Jad's solo and collaborative records to pick out the occasional nice tune here and there amongst his extensive experimentation, indulgence, childlike musical wonder and complete lack of what the general public may want just making music from his heart and musical soul, in his own way. Who collaborates with makes a big difference tho he remains generally constant. I never heard of Teenage Fanclub and just sampled some of their songs from their other albums. Their vocals make their records a bit too sugary, too, what? too nice? This mix, for me, since I have acclimated to Jad's goofball vocal style decades ago, is splendid. He could actually get played on the radio somewhere with this record, well, maybe college radio which I'm sure does play some of his stuff from over the decades. He's on over 40 records in about 35 years of making records. I will definitely be listening all the way through this record and play it again in future. I cannot say that for virtually all of Jad's solo and collaborative records because there's so much stuff on most of them that is just too much for me to bear, too esoteric, too skimpy instrumentally, too childlike, although, don't get me wrong, childlike can be wondabah, witness Charlie Brown toy piano and Jonathan Richman over the years. But Jad goes there, he goes where ever he wants musically and I have a limit. However, if the records are inexpensive enough, re: used on amazon, then I buy 'em cuz I know there's something on every Jad record I like. Maybe not the Hello Half Japanese record, their only clunker for me, or the Swan record he did, uh, I just can't take that record. But, in the main, Jad's got rockin', he's got tunes, he's got soul, like the other end of the spectrum of James Brown and Ray Charles but on the same spectrum, rock, soul, passion, purity, joy, pain, yearning, girls, it's all there. I was so impressed with this record that I just bought the 3 song single with one song from here just to hear those other 2 songs. We'll see. Good stuff. I wonder what Teenage Fanclub fans think of this with his unique vocals replacing the usual vocals one expects from an alt pop band. Thanks for the collabrative effort guys, a success. God bless ya chillin'.
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