All Apologies

Eureka Machines – Remain in Hope

Sounds A LOT like the band “Second Saturday” that I submitted a while back…it’s that sweet, overproduced power pop that haters hate and lovers enjoy. I’m a power pop guy so I like this, but I can see where others will kill it. It’s a 3.0 for me, and that might be the highest rating it gets from anyone in DYN.

Moondance – Van Morrison

A stone cold classic. Listening again for the first time in a long time confirms that Van the Man is something special. Nothing needs to be said about the music that hasn’t already been articulated by critics over the years, though critics also thought Veedom Fleece was the best Van Morrison album ever…wrong! 4.5

Velvet Underground – Loaded

If you just listen to the first three tracks, it’s a great album, but when you listen to the album in its entirety, not so much. 2.5

Sky Ferreria – Night Time My Time

2.0 if you listen as submitted, 3.5 if you watch available videos on You Tube. At least it’s not as bad as Scarlett Johannsson’s CD. Even videos couldn’t keep that from being a 1.5 or less….well, maybe…

Capstan Shafts – Thanks for this GH…I hadn’t heard them before and I like short songs with big hooks. This has many of them. I especially like the most recent CD tracks since they are more fleshed out and less ‘lo-fi’. I will add many of these to my power pop rotation in I-Tunes.

Guitar Solos that should never change…
1. Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
2. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking – Rolling Stones
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Beatles
4. Something – Beatles
5. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

In a couple of sentences, best describe each of our DYN reviewers' taste and expected review criterion for submissions.

D’Arcy – Has a Brit/ 80’s rock guitar sweet spot…if he doesn’t like it, it’s horrible. I always know I’ll get a great rock CD when he submits an ‘old’, and I know any Stones that get submitted will be trashed.
Mike – Eclectic. A ‘rock as art’ kind of guy, but at the end of the day, melody wins. I never know what to expect as a grade from Mike.
Ken – Encyclopedic. Out of all of us, he’s most open to all musical genres. Submissions are always a pleasant surprise, and his grading is always well reasoned.
Jay – Intelligent punk and historically important rock with no time for posers. You get your whole life to do your first album, so that’s the important one. Submissions are always either in my library or going there.
Sandy – A soft spot for jam bands, but a well rounded music appreciator. He’s more accepting of fringe submissions than anyone else.
Greg – Prog rock soft spot, but can surprise, both with a willingness to stretch his taste and music he submits.
Monsta – The holy trinity of Dylan/Springsteen/Young is the criteria by which all others are judged, and I enjoy most everything he submits (other than that Ocular thing).

On a personal note, sorry I’m so late with these things…it has been a rough year since June and it’s still difficult with Deb’s radiation schedule and my Mom coming back from a small stroke…I’ll be back in 2014 to make the DYN meetings, but I’m on tight time through the end of the year.