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I am one man who writes (pretty poorly) about music because I love it. I study, play, produce, engineer, analyze, and obsess about music. Enjoy all the topics I can muster up to write about.
They sent me this disk. I probably should give it a listen.
[...] I couldn’t muster love for the Bird and the Bee‘s Hall & Oates tribute album, and I didn’t know why. It just sounded same-y and uninspired. All of Hall & Oates kitschy, quirky glory had been whitewashed with a muted, hipsterrific veneer. Then, Matt Dyson (@dirkler on Twitter) made me realize why I felt that way. Because it’s true! [...]
I enjoyed this thoroughly. It’s kind of sad that we feel the need to import our ‘awesomely bombastic’ music from the ’80s instead of just creating our own. It’s such a cop out.