From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V7 #103 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Thursday, November 18 2004 Volume 07 : Number 103 In This Digest: ----------------- Re: yet another day one review [Gina Gazic ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:30:39 -0500 From: Gina Gazic Subject: Re: yet another day one review Just got my disk. Wanted to obtain it online through puretracks or something, but they detected that I'm in the U.S., I guess, and kept forcing me to their U.S. website, which didn't have Day One. For a little background, I've been a fan since before Blue Parade (was at the CD release party). So, I like California, but then I knew I would. I had most of the songs in mp3 before I got the disk, but I was really curious about "Your Wish is My Wish", having heard the live version. What I was hoping for was a cleaner, maybe more-polished track similar to the live version. It isn't what I was expecting at all. I do like what she's done with Vertigo, the strings deepen and darken the song. Also, the clarity of this album far surpasses that of, say, Blue Parade. But I gotta say, I like the production of Blue Parade more. Not necessarily the songs, although maybe the songs. But I know I like Mary, California, and Your Wish is My Wish a lot more live. As some of you have already said, lots of the production details of this album obscure the simple beauty of the songs (especially on Mary), by being strikingly un-subtle. The songs feel all patched-up with effects. I had a similar but slightly more positive view of Night Bugs. Some really great artists keep it simple; Tom McRae, Elliot Smith, Jack Johnson and Damien Rice, for example (with the exception of Eskimo, which I never listen to). And I really love Sarah Harmer's latest. I guess what I'm saying is; this new direction may make Sarah happier, in which case more power to her, but I can't really identify with it. I miss the old stuff, in which you heard the band, the piano, and the heart.. ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V7 #103 *******************************