Ye Olde Tyme Rock-and-Roll
Catching up on my new releases, I realized this morning that this quarter's crop is super-crowded with "new" stuff from geriatric rockers like the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Bonnie Raitt. After cursory listens:
Rolling Stones: Not offensively bad.
Eric Clapton: Old. Boring. Chug-a-chug, gritty feel of 1974's 461 Ocean Boulevard has flattened out into lite-rock reggae thirty one years later.
Bonnie Raitt: Very soulful, but shouldn't she, like, play guitar or something?
Paul McCartney: He's earned a place in hell for the past thirty five years of his career. But this new record is actually fairly good. And I don't mean good as in not bad. I mean good, as in solid (at times) songwriting, ambitious arrangements and succulent production.
Catching up on my new releases, I realized this morning that this quarter's crop is super-crowded with "new" stuff from geriatric rockers like the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Bonnie Raitt. After cursory listens:
Rolling Stones: Not offensively bad.
Eric Clapton: Old. Boring. Chug-a-chug, gritty feel of 1974's 461 Ocean Boulevard has flattened out into lite-rock reggae thirty one years later.
Bonnie Raitt: Very soulful, but shouldn't she, like, play guitar or something?
Paul McCartney: He's earned a place in hell for the past thirty five years of his career. But this new record is actually fairly good. And I don't mean good as in not bad. I mean good, as in solid (at times) songwriting, ambitious arrangements and succulent production.
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