Audio CD review:
Chamberlain - The Moon My Saddle

Chamberlain - The Moon My Saddle

Band: Chamberlain Title: The Moon My Saddle Rating: Release Date: 10 November, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Try For Thunder 2: Crush You 3: World Don't Want Us 4: Stars In The Streetlight 5: Mountain Of A Heart 6: Racing Cincinnati 7: Manhattan's Iron Horses (The Last Train Out) 8: Lonesome Song 9: Good Enough 10: Until The Day Burns Down 11: Last To Know

Customer Reviews Amazing alt-country but this album is amazing. I would liken David Moore's voice more to John Mellencamp than to Springsteen (also to give up's to the home state boy). If you're expecting "Fates got a driver" you'll be disappointed. I recently heard that David Moore and Adam Rubenstein are playing music once again. A chamberlain reunion and follow up album would be the ultimate gift a fan could have. A must have that most don't have Now that I have found this album, I feel fortunate that it was still available, but feel sorry for anyone who has never heard about them. How this band and album never received a wider audience is beyond me! I am from Indianapolis but never fully appreciated how talented Split Lip/Chamberlain were until they had stopped playing altogether. Those who do not own this album are missing out. . . it will become one of those albums that you never tire of and continually turn to when everything else starts to bore you. More specifically, "Good Enough" is especially brilliant. Good stuff. " Chamberlain is a 5 piece (when I saw them they only had 4 guys) rock-n-roll band from Indianapolis, IN. This is the first thing that I can remember being on Doghouse and not being catagorized as "emo. The CD immediately starts off with a relaxing, mellow guitar line in "Try For Thunder" that is just downright pretty (in fact, most of the guitarwork on this CD is very short of astonishing; it's all really solid and full, and the solos are really catchy), followed by the singer's halfway-raspy voice (which will remind you of Bruce Springsteen right away, but without some of the vocal embellishments the Boss takes). The band ends up jamming out the song in places, putting it over the 5 1/2 minute mark. In fact, only 2 songs on the album clock in at under 4 minutes, so you can tell you're in for some slow ballads along the way. "Racing Cincinnati" is a beautiful piano/voice movement which capivates you, until it leads into probably the fastest song on the album, "Manhattan's Iron Horses. " This uptempo number has a bit of an "emo" feel to it (meaning I could see the singer from the Get Up Kids screaming these lyrics to the music provided). "Lonesome Song" is just that, a lonesome song. It's a blues/country heavy number, with the guitar waning over everything else. To me, the CD culminates with "Good Enough," one of the best songs, lyrics-wise, that I've heard all year. It tells the story of the singer (presumably) telling the listener just what he would say to the woman in his life who apparently is leaving or has left him. It's hard to describe the sincere emotion he delivers on the track (and in concert, also), you just have to hear it. The only thing I found wrong with the song is the senseless guitar solo in the middle of nowhere. It kills the atmosphere that the band had created for the previous 4 minutes. All in all, these are 11 solid songs that will get to anyone, any time. If you're sick of listening to whatever new genre or subgenre is sweeping the nation, there's nothing wrong with picking up this CD, and rocking out. . You can see a complete list of all Chamberlain discography, or go back to the Chamberlain tabs