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Mojo review of AYP

TheeBigguy
 

Well I could not agree with you more. I think Neil needs Crazy Horse and
thats the answer. will put some feeling some edge to this new album. And in
my review of the album the first complaint was background vocals, might be
the worst I have ever heard on any album ever......It is sad to see that the
Neil fans who swear Neil does nothing wrong actually post messages as if
this album is great. At best this album is one of his worst. Again "Ain't
got no T-bone" was bad but it was so Neil you understood it. This album
seems like a contractual effort to make Warner's happy.......
TheeBigguy

----- Original Message -----
From: "franneilnereau" <franneilnereau@...>
To: <rust@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: Mojo review of AYP


Hello everyone,

The April issue of Mojo has a full page review of AYP (Jules must be on
week-end, if I'm the first to mention), which is rather negative. Only
She's
a Healer and Goin' Home are rated good. The review, entitled "Pressure
Drop"
ends with "AYP offers largely platitudes and unconvincing soul rehashes of
the Commitments variety. It's not one of his most inspired records".
A little bit hard, but generally speaking, I must say I agree with their
review, and I'm afraid for Neil that most of the English and French
critics
will share this opinion. It's been one month since I first listened to
this
record, and if it's pleasant enough to listen to as a background music
while
you're busy doing something else, it is definitively a shallow album. The
big problems on this album being :
- Booker T and the MG's : sorry to say, but they are a great backing
band for Otis or Wilson, but not for Neil (except live in 1993) ; their
sound is too mellow, lacking passion and surprises,
- the songs : apart from She's a healer (the real surprise, what a
sound
on this one) and Goin' Home (a great song, but it sounds completely out of
place here...)
- the guitar riffs : my God, he sounds like Gary Moore on several
songs
(Mr Disappointment for instance)
- the voices : Neil's voice is not very well assured on a number of
songs and it doesn't always firt very well with the soul/rhythm'n'blues
background, and I must repeat (I mentionned it in my first review of AYP)
that the background vocals are very often terrible (out of tune, not
together, and plain)

This is just my opinion, shared with some friends who listened to the
album
with me, and I was happily surprised to read some very good reviews from
many Rusties out there. We're jsut a family with different tastes but the
same love for Neil. But sometimes, "qui bene amat, bene castigat".

Take care everybody

Palomino Nero




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franneilnereau
 

Hello everyone,

The April issue of Mojo has a full page review of AYP (Jules must be on
week-end, if I'm the first to mention), which is rather negative. Only She's
a Healer and Goin' Home are rated good. The review, entitled "Pressure Drop"
ends with "AYP offers largely platitudes and unconvincing soul rehashes of
the Commitments variety. It's not one of his most inspired records".
A little bit hard, but generally speaking, I must say I agree with their
review, and I'm afraid for Neil that most of the English and French critics
will share this opinion. It's been one month since I first listened to this
record, and if it's pleasant enough to listen to as a background music while
you're busy doing something else, it is definitively a shallow album. The
big problems on this album being :
- Booker T and the MG's : sorry to say, but they are a great backing
band for Otis or Wilson, but not for Neil (except live in 1993) ; their
sound is too mellow, lacking passion and surprises,
- the songs : apart from She's a healer (the real surprise, what a sound
on this one) and Goin' Home (a great song, but it sounds completely out of
place here...)
- the guitar riffs : my God, he sounds like Gary Moore on several songs
(Mr Disappointment for instance)
- the voices : Neil's voice is not very well assured on a number of
songs and it doesn't always firt very well with the soul/rhythm'n'blues
background, and I must repeat (I mentionned it in my first review of AYP)
that the background vocals are very often terrible (out of tune, not
together, and plain)

This is just my opinion, shared with some friends who listened to the album
with me, and I was happily surprised to read some very good reviews from
many Rusties out there. We're jsut a family with different tastes but the
same love for Neil. But sometimes, "qui bene amat, bene castigat".

Take care everybody

Palomino Nero
ERICH ORTMAN
 

woohoooo!

songs out of place
guitar riffs different from normal sound
voice not well assured
background vocals out of tune not together
and plain?

woohoooo!
finally neil is neil again
and always
i can't wait

peace
erich
The Last Note

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