just got a burned copy of busted stuff, the latest dave matthews band offering. i have to say that i've sorta slacked off in the dave department lately, my acoustic rock love mostly being replaced by john mayer. being one of the few people in the world who actually liked the last dmb album, everyday, busted stuff is a return to the old-school, a return to the simplistic. 9 songs from the infamous "lillywhite sessions" (apparently now called "the summer so far" by quote-in-quote true fans) are redone here with two new ones.
the songs seem extremely scaled back, with not many extra keyboards or guitars, which is good and bad. songs like "digging a ditch" or "grace is gone" would have been pretty much ruined by anything trying to fill in their spaces. but i miss the electric guitars that filled in crash, which still remains my favorite from these guys. this is a much slower, more somber album. "grey street" picks up the pace and "kit kat jam" is an instrumental showcasing carter, but none of these songs rocked me like a "so much to say" or "what would you say". for what it is, it's good; "grace is gone" is every bit as good a slow ballad as "crash into me" was. it doesn't seem like the logical progression, more like an apology for the supposedly commercialized everyday. here you go, old dave again, no complaining? there's something missing to me. i thought they should have made everyday into a double cd with the lillywhite songs on one disc and the ballard ones on the other, a mix of happy and sad. i'm not sure how much of an improvement there was from when most of these songs were recorded last year, but it's nice to have a finished product of them. [grade: B]
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on the okay samurai side of things, don and jeff's friend phil has asked to use eric's current tracks from mosquito to make a remix. no finished product and the remix already on the way?...i love it! very exciting. thanks to the mp3 of the song i sent to jeff and andrew, the unmixed version of the song is floating out there somewhere around jmu and the aol offices. just don't get too used to it, since eric promised me that the final verison will be nothing short of multiple-pair-of-pants rockage. actually he didn't say that, but he did say he was going to replace all our guitar tracks with his own searing behind-the-back solos played with his teeth (bicuspids, to be exact). actually he didn't say that, but the final (free) product will be great.
the next time i write on this will probably be from baltimore once we get internet, phone lines, cable, rent and capri suns figured out. my third floor room is at least 3 times as big as the wertland one i was in last year and (potential robbers, take note) has a door leading directly to our rooftop deck. there's talk of one of my roommates storing a drumset in my room, which would make the designated "music corner" pretty near complete. again, you (yes you, random person who came across this site because "awesome samurai swords" on the search engine led you here) have to come visit sometime.
Friday, August 9 at 8:41 PM
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