Bruno Mars "doo-wops and hooligans" has two good songs - "Grenade" and "Just the way you are." Bruno Mars reminds of New Kids on the Block, Justin Timberlake, The Spice Girls and even tints of Michael Jackson and Bob Marley. I like the fact that Bruno Mars is from Hawaii. It gives some kind of authenticity to his sub-tropical music. Bruno Mars seems to be a very young man. I find this lyrics to be almost child-like. Maybe if he was a little bit older I could take them seriously but I think Bruno Mars is just a little too sweet and a little too much of an ideal romantic (like in the song Grenade). I also think in a way he is like Emily Carr. Who was a good artist but it took close to a lifetime before she developed her own style. I think Bruno Mars still needs to develop his own unique style.
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That's Not My Name
When it has came down to it, there just hasn't been that much excitement with the music industry this past year. There have been some surprisingly catchy songs though, like That's Not My name from The Ting Tings. The song at first didn't feel like it was anything special, but it actually was surprisingly enjoyable after a few times. I was definitely surprised about this one. While it isn't completely exciting, it still is honestly much better than a lot of other songs that have came out recently like Jordin Sparks latest Battlefield, or Beyonce's Ego. Still, I do hope that The Ting Tings next song can be better than That's Not My Name had showed, within a name.
Manners [+digital booklet]
I feel "Sleepyhead" is in the top three best songs of 2008. I feel "Sleepyhead" is in the top three best songs of 2009 [thus far]. Confused yet? Well, "Sleepyhead" was originally released last year on Passion Pit's debut EP "Chunk Of Change" and has been brought back with some slight alterations to this debut LP. Not much is different but there are enough changes to reestablish my proclivity to leave this song on repeat again after completely playing it out last year. It's basically all the same patterns and effects. However, levels have been adjusted for the better. For instance: some of the samples have been slightly muted, while others have been seeming thrust into different channels, which to be truly appreciated should be listened on a surround sound setting. The most notable difference is the extremely well timed bass has been turned up. It adds more depth to the song (especially in the bridge and chorus) and allows it to rise above the previous version which will now likely be considered a demo version.
As far as new additions go, nothing is slacking here. "Moth's Wing" is spectacular. The chorus is so climatic and it's sporadic which helps make this song a notable listen to the very last second. "Eyes As Candles" briefly starts off a tad bland with a simple drum beat and organ pad. However, it quickly gets interesting, and after the first chorus takes you somewhere serendipitous, the song reintroduces the hypnotic bass melody for the second verse. I'm not sure I've heard a more melodic moment on an album this year. Listen to this song in your car and tell me you don't catch yourself subconsciously singing the "na na na-na-na-na, hey hey heeeey" and I will instinctively check your pulse for a beat. "Swimming In The Flood" starts off with a melancholy violin melody that sounds straight out of There Will Be Blood. Enter the dirty drum machine beat, bass, and keys and you find another stellar, hypnotic melody and suddenly I'm a huge fan. "To Kingdom Come" is straight lovely. "Let Your Love Grow Tall" shows these dudes have fun production value down to a science. "Seaweed Song" is like a fun upbeat 80s electronic r&b song and one of my favorites.
This album took a brief moment to grow on me. After my first listen, I wasn't blown away. At least not like I was when I first heard "Sleepyhead" last year. And I think that's where my fault was with regards to this album initially: I craved an album full of "Sleepyheads", songs to just blow me away. You won't find that here. What you will find, simply, is fun, hypnotic electronic songs that I ultimately feel are one of the most cohesive collection of songs released this year. I certify here every song a worthy listen and more than several are just plain spectacular. If there isn't a Passion Pit fan club yet, I want to start one, so, I can proclaim: "I'm not just a member, I'm the President."
As far as new additions go, nothing is slacking here. "Moth's Wing" is spectacular. The chorus is so climatic and it's sporadic which helps make this song a notable listen to the very last second. "Eyes As Candles" briefly starts off a tad bland with a simple drum beat and organ pad. However, it quickly gets interesting, and after the first chorus takes you somewhere serendipitous, the song reintroduces the hypnotic bass melody for the second verse. I'm not sure I've heard a more melodic moment on an album this year. Listen to this song in your car and tell me you don't catch yourself subconsciously singing the "na na na-na-na-na, hey hey heeeey" and I will instinctively check your pulse for a beat. "Swimming In The Flood" starts off with a melancholy violin melody that sounds straight out of There Will Be Blood. Enter the dirty drum machine beat, bass, and keys and you find another stellar, hypnotic melody and suddenly I'm a huge fan. "To Kingdom Come" is straight lovely. "Let Your Love Grow Tall" shows these dudes have fun production value down to a science. "Seaweed Song" is like a fun upbeat 80s electronic r&b song and one of my favorites.
This album took a brief moment to grow on me. After my first listen, I wasn't blown away. At least not like I was when I first heard "Sleepyhead" last year. And I think that's where my fault was with regards to this album initially: I craved an album full of "Sleepyheads", songs to just blow me away. You won't find that here. What you will find, simply, is fun, hypnotic electronic songs that I ultimately feel are one of the most cohesive collection of songs released this year. I certify here every song a worthy listen and more than several are just plain spectacular. If there isn't a Passion Pit fan club yet, I want to start one, so, I can proclaim: "I'm not just a member, I'm the President."
...Featuring
A generous, well-oiled - though incomplete - sampling of Norah Jones' non-album collaborations with her colleagues, "Featuring Norah Jones" is an excellent compilation of wonderful work from the past decade. For fans of Jones who did not realize the great frequency with which she works as a guest and session musician - or lacked the wherewithal to hunt each individual track down - this disc is ideal.
There is quite a diverse array of artists on the disc - from Twalib Kali to Dolly Parton to Outkast - which might lead some to worry that "Featuring Norah Jones" sounds like a bunch of songs thrown together disjointedly. Fortunately, the tracks are sequenced in a way that not only feels natural, ideal for straight-through play, but that highlights Jones' versatility. She is an intriguing, deceivingly simple talent, and a fascinating common denominator.
A few tracks actually predate her "Come Away With Me" success, including the best track here - and still one of the best Jones has ever recorded - "More Than This," a collaboration with the exquisitely talented jazz musician Charlie Hunter from his 2001 release "Songs from the Analog Playground." The Roxy Music cover is blissful, elegant and everlasting in its arrangement, continuing to sound fresh, and Jones' emphatic, less-is-more vocal approach is instantly memorable. It is a track to savor.
The Grammy-winning "Here We Go Again" with the late Ray Charles is a slinky, R&B-flavored treat, even though it could have garnered a Grammy no matter how they arranged it. Tracks with Herbie Hancock and the Foo Fighters are also easy on the ears.
Jones' country leanings show her wide artistic pallete, but they are rather reigned in as opposed to dour, so they can be enjoyed by those listeners who prefer her cocktail jazz stylings. She harmonizes heavenly with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings on "Loretta" and waxes poetic with Ryan Adams on "Dear John," a 2005 collaboration from Adams' startlingly executed "Jacksonville City Nights" album. The results sound seamless, clearly the result of great labor and attention to detail. "Creepin' In," a folksy, lighthearted duet with Dolly Parton is the only track to repeat from a Norah Jones release.
Elsewhere, Willie Nelson oozes charm with Jones on "Baby, It's Cold Outside," a Q-Tip and Outkast collaborate to produce cool, trippy sounds on "Life is Better" and "Take Off Your Cool," respectively.
A sprawling, nicely woven collection, "Featuring Norah Jones" is everything it promises to be and more. Nicely complimenting her solo work, it entertains while affirming Jones' post-"Don't Know Why" worth.
The Ocean Way Sessions
I first heard Christina Perri from VH1's You Oughta Know Artist and it was the song "Jar of Hearts"... I immediately fell inlove. It's really hard these days to find honest and truly talented artists. Her voice is amazing. Her lyrics are true, easy to relate to and put together nicely. Her music is composed just right. She's just great to listen to and sing along with. This cd is so good...the only thing bad about it is it's only 5 songs...5 songs is not enough. I want more.
So, this cd was recorded in a studio with a live band, and in ways you can tell...in other ways, you can't. Christina Perri doesn't need all the digitally mastered beats and auto tune to sound perfect (which doesn't really sound perfect or cool, just annoying) Although I will say I have times and moods when I enjoy it. My point is she's perfectly perfect without all that.
"Bang Bang Bang" I actually liked a lot more than I thought I would just by listening to the :30sec clip. Listening to the entire song, it's just a very fun song to sing along with...especially if you've ever had someone stomp on your heart (which who hasn't). The chorus (which was surprisingly catchy to me) says, "Bang bang bang boy, you're going down down down boy...to the ground where you left my heart to bleed. Bang! she shot you Karma tastes so sweet!" The lyrics to the verses are a little less simple, not complicated but they say much more than the chorus and they're clever. This song gets 4/5.
"Black & Blue" is a little more mellow than the first track and probably my least favorite on this 5 track ep. I'm not saying the song is bad, because it's not at all. It is in fact very good. At 2:37 the song is pretty short and could've probably been better if she made it longer and added more to it. I can't really say a lot about it because there's not a whole lot to it. What little of it there is, is enjoyable to say the least. This song gets 3/5
"Daydream" is another mellow song. Lyrics, music, Christina's voice...just make this an overall great song. The vocal patterns on this song are also very good. She has a very different style than most artists these days. She talks about just loving someone in her daydream rather than in real life so she won't get hurt even though they want to be together. At least, that's what I got from it. I think it's a very good song, especially lyrically because I know I've felt that way before. This song gets 5/5
"Tragedy" starts off with what I would consider a "darker" feel/sound (which I love to hear this sound because it's not done very often). She goes on to sing in the chorus, "and I won't be made a fool, I don't call this love". I want to say this is my favorite track on the cd but then I think of the other songs and it's just so hard to choose!!! But right now I think I'm saying this is my favorite track on the cd!! Haha. It seems like it's so full of emotion that you feel all the feelings you've had before about a certain situation. I love it. This song gets 5/5
"Jar of Hearts" is to my knowledge the most popular song of Christina Perri's at the moment and the first song I'd ever heard by her. I obviously think it's good to have looked into her further and purchased this cd as well. She has the video out for this song as well which I think is a beautiful music video. This is how I would want my music video to be if I ever had one. I love the darker look of black and white with ashes and/or dead rose petals falling all around, ballet/interpretative dance, etc. I just love it! Back to the song...it's basically about a guy who is what some would call a "player", he goes around "collecting his jar of hearts and tearing love apart". It's another slower/mellow song with tons of emotion and a voice that sounds so pure and raw. This song gets 5/5
I've said a lot. Overall this is a great album, you should buy it. You will love it, you will thank me. You will thank Christna Perri's parents for bringing her into this world to make awesome music for us to listen to. You will thank Christina Perri for following her dream/passion of music so that we can all listen to her. Trust me.
So, this cd was recorded in a studio with a live band, and in ways you can tell...in other ways, you can't. Christina Perri doesn't need all the digitally mastered beats and auto tune to sound perfect (which doesn't really sound perfect or cool, just annoying) Although I will say I have times and moods when I enjoy it. My point is she's perfectly perfect without all that.
"Bang Bang Bang" I actually liked a lot more than I thought I would just by listening to the :30sec clip. Listening to the entire song, it's just a very fun song to sing along with...especially if you've ever had someone stomp on your heart (which who hasn't). The chorus (which was surprisingly catchy to me) says, "Bang bang bang boy, you're going down down down boy...to the ground where you left my heart to bleed. Bang! she shot you Karma tastes so sweet!" The lyrics to the verses are a little less simple, not complicated but they say much more than the chorus and they're clever. This song gets 4/5.
"Black & Blue" is a little more mellow than the first track and probably my least favorite on this 5 track ep. I'm not saying the song is bad, because it's not at all. It is in fact very good. At 2:37 the song is pretty short and could've probably been better if she made it longer and added more to it. I can't really say a lot about it because there's not a whole lot to it. What little of it there is, is enjoyable to say the least. This song gets 3/5
"Daydream" is another mellow song. Lyrics, music, Christina's voice...just make this an overall great song. The vocal patterns on this song are also very good. She has a very different style than most artists these days. She talks about just loving someone in her daydream rather than in real life so she won't get hurt even though they want to be together. At least, that's what I got from it. I think it's a very good song, especially lyrically because I know I've felt that way before. This song gets 5/5
"Tragedy" starts off with what I would consider a "darker" feel/sound (which I love to hear this sound because it's not done very often). She goes on to sing in the chorus, "and I won't be made a fool, I don't call this love". I want to say this is my favorite track on the cd but then I think of the other songs and it's just so hard to choose!!! But right now I think I'm saying this is my favorite track on the cd!! Haha. It seems like it's so full of emotion that you feel all the feelings you've had before about a certain situation. I love it. This song gets 5/5
"Jar of Hearts" is to my knowledge the most popular song of Christina Perri's at the moment and the first song I'd ever heard by her. I obviously think it's good to have looked into her further and purchased this cd as well. She has the video out for this song as well which I think is a beautiful music video. This is how I would want my music video to be if I ever had one. I love the darker look of black and white with ashes and/or dead rose petals falling all around, ballet/interpretative dance, etc. I just love it! Back to the song...it's basically about a guy who is what some would call a "player", he goes around "collecting his jar of hearts and tearing love apart". It's another slower/mellow song with tons of emotion and a voice that sounds so pure and raw. This song gets 5/5
I've said a lot. Overall this is a great album, you should buy it. You will love it, you will thank me. You will thank Christna Perri's parents for bringing her into this world to make awesome music for us to listen to. You will thank Christina Perri for following her dream/passion of music so that we can all listen to her. Trust me.
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