Yeah, I am sure there are already about 10 million reviews of
\nthis album out there. But, I guarantee that none present the highly
\nunique Alison viewpoint, so you are now obliged to hear what I have
\nto say about it. So, ha.<\/p>\n
I decided to buy this album after, in a characteristically
\nnon-Alison fashion, listening to the radio. I was assaulted by the
\nsong “She’s So High” on three different stations, and after
\nlistening to it, I thought, “Yes! Another Morten Harket! An A-Ha of
\nthe nineties! A guy singing falsetto and actually fitting it into
\nthe song WELL!” It was great. I felt that radio had finally
\nredeemed itself, after having made me listen to 200 hours of
\ncommercials between songs. And, the fact that I knew a guy named
\nTal made it seems all the more fateful. So, I went down to my
\nfriendly neighborhood secret CD guy and picked up the CD for
\n$4.<\/p>\n
Then, on the way home, I listened to the first seven tracks.
\nWhen I arrived at my house, I had already written half of my review
\nin my head. “Great! Awesome! Sweet!” I was going to put something
\nin the review about how I thought the singer was cute, too, and
\njust sensitive enough to be a possible date partner for our
\nheroine…. But, I figured that that isn’t really a review; people
\nmight want to actually KNOW something about the album. (Huh?) So,
\nhere you go:<\/p>\n
This album rocks.<\/p>\n
In fact, barring a very small number of annoyances I have, I
\ncould say that this album is technically perfect. I liked it the
\nfirst time I listened to it. I liked it the second and third time,
\ntoo. I liked the fact that the lyrics aren’t dopey and lame, but
\nactually have some substance. (Well, all save one song.) I liked
\nthe fact that Bachman has a great vocal range (men who sing higher
\nthan me frighten me, but in this case, I made an exception) and
\nknows how to use it instead of trying to show it off needlessly
\n(see Mariah Carey).<\/p>\n
I liked the fact that Bachman attacks difficult subjects (death
\nin “If You Sleep”, for example, is handled in such a wonderfully
\nsweet and sorrowful way that it made my night drive seem magical)
\nand yet does not fall prey to silly sappiness. I personally don’t
\ncare (or find it important, barring the fact that this means that
\nhe definitely came from a musical household) that he’s the son of
\nRandy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive), because I think this
\nalbum stands on it’s own.<\/p>\n
The album starts off with “Darker Side Of Blue,” an ode to the
\ndarker side of fame. (How many times have we heard that one?)
\nLuckily for Bachman, he knows how to approach an almost
\nclich\u00e9 subject with class – the song is a rocker. And, of
\ncourse, “She’s So High”, the song that drew me in, is a great tune
\ntoo, even if a little confusing for the average listener. (I have
\nhad to explain to three friends so far that he’s not talking about
\nbeauty, but really unattainability; I mean, Cleopatra was one ugly
\nchick.) “Romanticide” is a funny track lamenting the fate of the
\n“good guy”: “Whoever said to take it on the chin \/ Whoever said
\nthat good guys always win \/ Has never seen the sorry state I’m in \/
\nA victim of romanticide again”<\/p>\n
The “small annoyance” I have is with the song “Looks Like Rain.”
\nI found it hard to listen to, if not impossible; it is an actually
\nagitating track. It owes this mostly to the Split Enz-esque piano
\nplaying in the background, a constant, fast pounding that made me
\nmore than compelled to fast forward through the song. The track
\nthat follows, “You’re My Everything”, is saved from Alison’s hatred
\nfor sappy lyrics – and I mean, I HATE sappy lyrics – because of
\nBachman’s handling of the song; he almost sounds cynical as he
\nsings “I love you and adore you, you’re all that life could
\nbring…”<\/p>\n
I could go over each track, but I find that they are all equally
\nwell done. If you’re looking for perfect pop, this is a great
\nchoice. The first track makes me look forward to the second and
\nthird, just as Bachman’s first album makes me look forward to the
\nnext release from this great artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6130],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-36269","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-tal-bachman","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36269"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36269"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}