Alright, here\u2019s the thing. You might be a musically talented band, but if your producer gets sole or part writing credit on EVERY song on your record, then there\u2019s a problem. That\u2019s the case with DAG, an R&B\/pop group from North Carolina, signed to Columbia and produced by John Custer. Custer is best known for his work with Corrosion Of Conformity and Cry Of Love, who are incidentally both from North Carolina.<\/p>\n
\u201cRighteous (City Pain)\u201d is a song that goes nowhere and features more white boy crooning than I care to hear. There\u2019s nothing really earth shattering here. \u201cYour Mama\u2019s Eyes\u201d features more of that good ol\u2019 white-boy funk that was so prevalent in the \u201890s. But this is just crap that doesn\u2019t get better with age. \u201cHome\u201d is more of the same; gimme the remote so I can mute the hell out of this junk!<\/p>\n
The creepily titled \u201cYou Can Lick It (If You Try)\u201d just doesn\u2019t work as a slow song. It comes off very creepy and shows the band\u2019s flaws. If they couldn\u2019t write a song better than their producer\u2019s by themselves, then there was no point in even carrying on. \u201cEven So\u201d comes off like classic \u201870s sounding Earth, Wind & Fire, a sound that was oh-so-popular in 1994. Gimme a break, for God\u2019s sake!<\/p>\n
Suffice to say, this is a band that was promoted and sponsored by an abundance of major label money that was used to promote garbage that the general public sufficiently ignored. Records like this wound up in bargain bins across the country to gather dust. I myself picked this disc up for ten cents, so needless to say, I got my money\u2019s worth! The band waited another four years for their next record, which also went straight to the cutout bin. They have since disappeared and no one has heard a peep since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10053],"rating":[5620],"class_list":["post-45064","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-dag","rating-rating-f"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45064","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45064"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}