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Originally Posted by dmbnut21
WOW! New Update - I just got an email on the correct account. Apparently I am getting 2 more CDs. I am now up to 16 CDs.
Guess what everyone I know is getting for Christmas? (Trick Question - I don't have any friends)
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Are you serious? Omg....
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Originally Posted by Dankguitar
May have missed this in backread but this is a review from Matt Norlander http://www.mattnorlander.com/blog/20...-come-tomorrow He’s the guy that did that recent BTCS podcast with Lillywhite that was awesome. I’m just a hair more positive on this album than he is but I think this is the most objectively nail on the head review of this album you’ll find. In a nutshell: some of Dave’s best songwriting in the last few albums that is taken down a notch by production decisions and the lack of violin and saxophone. At one point he imagines what Roi would’ve done with Do You Remember and it’s true. He would’ve made this album a lot better
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Thanks for sharing that review! I agree with most of what he said, and the other reviews he links to are also worth reading. I'm not sure I totally agree with his point here:
"The highest peaks on this LP come on the three-song run from "Idea of You" (also Batson-produced) to "Virginia in the Rain" to "Again and Again." From a production-plus-songwriting standpoint, the band hasn't had a triple-track run that strong on an album since 1998's Before These Crowded Streets. The latter two tracks were produced by Cavallo and outclass every single song he did on 2009's Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.
"Virginia in the Rain" has a case as one of the 15 best studio cuts of the band's career, and "Again and Again" isn't too far behind it. The ironic but compelling part: Matthews doesn't play guitar on either of them."