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Re: Films For Radio Track List/Mini-Review
pardon me, but is 'more commercial and radio-friendly' a good thing?? this
frightens me...
arwen725 at hotmail_com
>From: Johncatt at aol_com
>Reply-To: Johncatt at aol_com
>To: Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com
>Subject: Films For Radio Track List/Mini-Review
>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:41:05 EST
>
>Through a friend of mine in radio, I was fortunate enough to get to hear
>the
>new album in its entirety last night. It's terrific....a lot more texture
>(and percussion!) than we've come to expect from OTR....I was reminded a
>bit
>of Everything But The Girl's transition a few years back from dreamy
>acoustic
>recordings to still-gorgeous melodies laid on a bed of drums n' bass.
>"Films"
>is not as ethereal and other-worldly as GDBD, but I think it's more
>commercial and radio-friendly.
>
>I rank having to follow-up Good Dog Bad Dog along the lines of Brian Wilson
>trying to top Pet Sounds (what do you do after you've made one of the
>greatest albums of all time?). Not only have Karen and Linford emerged
>without going mad (presumably!), but they've made a truly worthy successor
>to
>their masterpiece. I probably won't play "Films" as often as GDBD, but it's
>precisely the album they should have made and I think and hope it will
>bring
>them the success they so richly deserve.
>
>With a couple of lucky breaks and some well-placed airplay (to these ears,
>If
>Nothing Else and Give Me Strength are the "singles"), I think the secret's
>going to be out on these folks!
>
>Incidentally, the copy I heard and saw had was different than the advance
>CD
>someone's been selling on eBay. It appears K&L may have changed the running
>order at the last minute.
>
>For the record, here's the track list and times:
>
>The World Can Wait (5:46)
>If Nothing Else (5:17)
>Give Me Strength (4:17)
>Fairpoint Diary (4:35)
>I Radio Heaven (4:44)
>Little Blue River (8:12)!
>Goodbye (5:27)
>Whatever You Say (3:43)
>The Body Is A Stairway Of Skin (4:19)
>Moth (4:37)
>When I Go (6:25)
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