“It’s story time, folks! Come one, come all! Mothers and
\nfathers, girls and boys, gather around. Mr. Brad ‘the wise guy’
\nRoberts has a few stories up his sleeve. Stories, fables, tales;
\nparables, each of which send out a message of their own – Messages
\nwith a moral value, messages without a moral value, plain messages
\nwhich really aren’t supposed to mean anything at all!!”<\/p>\n
Seriously,
\nGod Shuffled His Feet<\/i> is a very different album. It differs
\nfrom most of its kind in the way it is conceptualized and
\npresented. There is no doubt that this is just another ‘adult
\nalternative rock’ album, but, with a difference. The album proceeds
\nlike a musical storybook, with each song contributing as a small
\nfable of some sort. Every song is written as a small tale,
\ndescribing the most unusual of situations, in a manner of a
\nparable, which one is supposed to read to their kids, hoping to
\ninculcate any slightest form of something known as a ‘moral value’,
\nin an attempt to make it (the child) a better person.<\/p>\n
The opening title track is this very funny fragment of Brad’s
\nimagination of this situation, in which the almighty invites some
\n‘humans’ for a nice day out, for a picnic, in which the ‘humans’
\nask god really weird questions about heaven. As an answer, god
\ntells them an equally warped story of this boy with ‘blue hair’,
\nwhich of course goes beyond the absorbing capacity of any of the
\nperson trying to get a grip of what god was trying to say – A very
\nsmart lyric-work by Brad, here. Also, the mandolin-solo at the end
\nof the song makes it one of the best in the album. “Afternoons And
\nCoffespoons”, is a very humorous take on why one should find a
\nhospital quite not the place to be in. “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”, is
\ndefinitely not an ‘erotic’ song, no, by no means, it isn’t. Like
\n“God Shuffled His Feet”, this song gives a glimpse of some very
\nunusual stories that Brad can bubble out with. The bass lines are
\nquite amazing, if listened to, with care, in this song. “In The
\nDays Of The Caveman”, is exactly, what the title says: beautiful
\npiano work by Ellen, here. Its time for a love song, with “Swimming
\nIn Your Ocean”, and a very unconventional one, I should say. I like
\nthe unusual humor in this unusual love song. “Here I Stand Before
\nMe”, is probably the worst song of this record. The lyrics are
\ngood, though, with Brad singing about his proud x-ray of his
\ninsides. “I Think I’ll Disappear Now”, is another not so good song:
\nnot worth writing about.<\/p>\n
“How Does A Duck Know?” is probably the best this album can
\noffer, and it is a lot! It is a fantastically produced song, one of
\nthe reasons that make me glad that The Dummies have made an
\nappropriate choice by having Jerry Harrison as the main producer of
\nthis CD. I once read Brad Roberts’ interview, somewhere, in which
\nhe had stated a very amusing fact about “When I Go Out With The
\nArtists”: it was originally written as a promo for a scotch whisky
\ncompany. Strange? You betcha!! A very mellow song, with nothing
\nmore than the sounds of the humble piano, “The Psychic”, is about,
\nwell, a psychic; a cute number. “Two Knights And Maidens”, is an
\nabsolute masterpiece. A beautifully short song, about two
\nmischievous knights and two really harassed and nasty maidens; the
\nplush production in this number does take a large part of the
\nlistener’s attention. “Untitled”, is sheer beauty in simplicity.
\nThis 2 – minute odd number is the most humble and melancholic of
\nall songs, of this L.P. This song is just a ‘piano-instrumental’,
\nwritten and performed by Brad Roberts, all by himself.<\/p>\n
All in all,
\nGod Shuffled His Feet<\/i> gives for an absolutely fulfilling
\nlistening pleasure. The music is mind-blowing, and isn’t very
\ncomplicated to understand. The lyrics are witty, cheeky and very
\nsmart. An impressive effort, indeed!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":26503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6926],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-37740","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-crash-test-dummies","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37740","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37740"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}