{"id":566,"date":"2007-05-22T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2007-05-22T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:30:05","slug":"chris-cornell-carry-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"chris cornell – carry on"},"content":{"rendered":"

oh oh. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
i have <\/FONT>just dropped this new album into the computer and the oracle for everything shiny disc related, (ie. gracenote),<\/EM> as of today, knows not of this forthcoming album. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
i guess no-one has entered all the necessary details into the system. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
now normally with indie small scale releases this is totally understandable, but this is a major label album getting some heavy promotion. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
after all, even a lo-tech unknown website has in the build up to this release has received : <\/FONT><\/DIV>
– one retrospective of chris’s work with soundgarden<\/STRONG> and audioslave<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV>
– one nicely packaged 4 track sampler<\/FONT><\/DIV>
– one cd single<\/FONT><\/DIV>
– and now the album proper.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
so despite the fact no-one out there has put in the time to get the details online, someone out there really wants me to check out this stuff.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
now while i have had listening periods of rock-n-roll excess during which the two bands mentioned earlier have been blasted out loud-n-proper @ ireallylovemusic<\/EM> hq, i think i can safely say that the same isn’t going to happen with this hard going album. all the ingredients are there, the big radio friendly rock production (steve lillywhite<\/EM>), the gruff but oh-so-emotional vocals, the mix of hard rockin’ and soft fm radio sanctioned ballads, the moody photos in the booklet, but the problem is that the songs are, well, rather forgetful. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
one major problem is the albums second track, poison eye. <\/EM>this really <\/EM>begins to seriously annoy after a few minutes, the chorus hook is just dreadful with chris sounding in almost as much pain as the listener. <\/FONT>now, embedded deeper within the 16 tracks such a hiccup could be forgiven, but to place such a travesty so early on makes it difficult to summon up the energy to listen any further. this problem is compounded by the following arms around your love <\/EM>where chris strains and pains to tell us over and over, you’re just going to have to take it <\/EM>hmmm. thankfully, <\/FONT>the album isn’t a total dud, and things get a little better with the laid back horn filled safe and sound <\/EM>managing to impress, as do a few other tracks here and there, but <\/FONT>perhaps the vocals of chris are best suited to working with others to streamline the obvious talent in a more manageable form.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
oh, and the less said about the cover of michael jacksons<\/STRONG> billie jean <\/EM>the better.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
more detail<\/EM> : here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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oh oh. i have just dropped this new album into the computer and the oracle for everything shiny disc related, (ie. gracenote), as of today, knows not of this forthcoming album. i guess no-one has entered all the necessary details into the system. now normally with indie small scale releases this is totally understandable, but this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}