Sunday, October 15, 2006

Steve Dunston - To Get Home Before Night Comes


I am officially endorsing utorrent, for a bittorrent client. At least, for the time being. No install required.

Soft Jazz. They call it pop, but it is TOTALLY soft jazz.
But nobody listens to soft jazz so they call it pop.

So I'm back to Jamendo now. Has everybody downloaded Bittorrent?

So I've just gotten one of my reviews edited. Ouch. Aparently I like everything too much, and use "fun" and "really" excessively. I personally would have pointed out how jumpy I am.

Steve Dunston. This dude is fairly high profile for a nothing Jamendo artist. He has apparently written for Scrubs, a few commercials, and a musical: "Witness". I really (used that word again) don't care about that. He has good-to-great-leveled songs on his album, and two that are total and complete crap. A pretty good ratio, I'd say.

Um, the band (Steve Dunston being the band) is fairly minimalistic. A consistent drum line for each some, a keyboard. There's a bit of synth in there someplace, but I bet its just a setting on the keyboard. In fact.. I sense a drum machine.

Um, the lyrics are not bad by any measure, but they are repetitive. Not a bad repetitive, it works really well

Pros: Many iPod-worthy tracks, its minimalistic but it works. Why did I say iPod? I mean Mp3 player! I will not stand by as another brand name dominates an entire product industry. This will not be another "Kleenex" or "Rollerblade"!

Cons: Two sucky tracks, probable drum machine, only one real instrument (but it works well)

Best Tracks:
  • Danger Girl (fun)
  • Better Man (slow)
  • 360 Degrees
  • Lost in my Head
  • Alone in a Room (fast, fun)
Summery: Give Danger Girl a chance and go from there. Three tears from the crushed soul of Bill Gates at the sight of Apple winning market share out of a possible four.

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