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Post by DCXMMXVI on Jul 20, 2020 15:48:45 GMT -8
I sure like doing polls ๐
I'm curious to know everyone's favorite song. So far, at least.
You can select up to 3 songs.
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Post by erik on Jul 20, 2020 16:20:14 GMT -8
At this point, the title track and "March March" are my two picks.
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Post by oregonchickfan on Jul 20, 2020 16:23:37 GMT -8
Only three? Lol. My favs depend on my mood. Definitely March March, Sleep at Night and For Her.
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Post by Bingo on Jul 20, 2020 16:52:33 GMT -8
I've voted for the three closing tracks. (I sometimes agree with Kyle Coroneos of Saving Country Music, and sometimes exasperatedly disagree. This is one of the points we do agree on. His lengthy, opinionated, but perceptive review is, in my view, fair in its broad assessment of where the album stands, in both the overall musical scene, and in the trajectory of the Chicks' own path to this release. I also see it as honest in his view of the emphasis on the dominant parts Natalie and Jack Antonoff play in this album, and why that results in understating some of the strengths of the Chicks as a group. Some will prefer to avoid that site (and not without reason), but for those who might be interested, this is the link) LinkI may give my own views in more detail later, but for now, I'll just say that it is those three closing tracks that give me the strongest impression of what the album might have been, with a more consistently successful blending of lyrical emotion and musical expression. Beyond that, there some places that deserve honourable mentions, such as the long closing instrumental in March, March, and the piano driven, lyrically heartbreaking, Charlotte Lawrence cover, Everybody Loves You. But, for me, too much of this album is sadly lost in over polished production and excessively repetitive chorus lines, often delivered in a semi-spoken tone, that risks becoming soporific in its monotony.
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Post by erik on Jul 20, 2020 18:38:10 GMT -8
The comments at Saving Country Music (such as they are; they seem more like right-wing grievances that are still seething after seventeen years) are what made me not post a link over there.
Quote by Bingo:
This is probably true to a certain extent. And it makes me wonder if the Chicks had ever considered recruiting Peter Asher to produce the album, if of course he wanted to. He did produce their 1999 recording of the Supremes' 1966 #1 hit "You Can't Hurry Love" for the RUNAWAY BRIDE soundtrack; and his track record with both James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt (both of whom seemed to have figured into the Chicks' sound) would have made him a fairly good fit for them (IMHO).
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Post by Kent67b on Jul 20, 2020 22:11:24 GMT -8
My favorite is "Everybody Loves You". I am trying to determine which prior DCX or CYH song sounds exactly like the instrumentals starting at the 2:30 mark of this song. My son says I'm crazy but it does sound very familiar.
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Post by Kent67b on Jul 20, 2020 22:16:39 GMT -8
I love being back on CRCR!!
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