Losing Sleep - Parachute



Both Parachute's albums were available in the library and thought let's give it a shot. Hoping for another diamond in the rough.

Alsa, not so much. Even less ambitious.

Sunken Condos - Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)



Sunken Condos is a fine album. It moves, progressive jazz has some great blues. It's the fourth solo album for Mr. Fagen. It never deviates from what Donald Fagen/Steely Dan have produced in the past. That's the love/hate I feel for this album. I don't hate it, but I'm in the mode of finding new refreshing material. This is not. It's new material, but sounds exactly like past material. I know for a lot of folks, that is perfect. Something else to slip into the player. I found nothing spectacular or hit worthy.

If you're a fan, you're probably gonna love this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx_t7doxgH8

The vocals definitely adds that element of "rap" if you will. Not a straight up rap, but it does incorporate staccato pacing that is inherent with most rap and hip hop songs. I dig the song.

Would you object if I move your No Doubt review over to their Discography thread?

Don't mind at all

Time Warp: The Very Best of - Ozark Mountain Daredevils



Even a supposed greatest hits for one of my long time fav groups doesn't deserve 5 stars. There's a few here that are head scratchers. Maybe hey were hits elsewhere, but it's hard to imagine them being bigger than around these parts.

Anyway, the sound is excellent and it brings back a lot of great memories.

Spaceship Orion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQjj9-xsWM

Road to Forever - Don Felder

I'm a pretty big fan of the Eagles in all their incarnations of early country through their west coast sound. Don Felder made many great contributions with the band over those years. Then Henley and Frey for a variety of reasons kicked his ass out of the group. By the way check out his bio with the eagles in Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974 - 2001).

That being said, I was not sure what he was going to bring to the table. I've been hearing about this release for a while and well, here it is. Disappointing is the first thing that comes to mind. There was magic when he was part of the Eagles. Maybe he added the right elements, but singing was not one of them. Maybe he was doing the backups? Seriously, this album had such good potential, but the singing is 2nd rate. So much, I can't listen to it if the music was good... which was not bad, but not great. I predict this will be in the bargain bin very quickly.

Yea, I would say my hopes were pretty high. They were very high for Joe Walsh's latest, but that sucked **** too. You know what I think would have worked very well for Felder is guest artists. Since the boy can't sing, bring in the talent. You take care of the music and put 2 + 2 together = Magic. Santana and host of other artists have conceptualized that, maybe he could too.



Since there really is not a good track off the album, let's go back in time to Felder's solo work for the movie sountdtrack of Heavy Metal

Takin' a Ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzd-Kso5P7A

Might lose a bit of cool cred for this one but this has been in my head for days.