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Dada - Puzzle Audio CD

A fair review of the Dada "Puzzle" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Dada reviews here, or go back to the Dada tabs.

Dada Band: Dada
Title: Puzzle
Rating:
Release Date: 2004-07-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Dorina 2: Mary Sunshine Rain 3: Dog 4: Dizz Knee Land 5: Surround 6: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 7: Posters 8: Timothy 9: Dim 10: Who You Are 11: Puzzle 12: Moon 13: Little Way (Bonus Track) 14: Colour (Bonnus Track) 15: Opera (Bonus Track)

Simply excellent
I never get sick of throwing this one in the player. A great CD by a talented band. Excellent guitar hooks, awesome vocal melodies, and superb song writing.


Awesome guitar work, stunning songs, beautiful harmonies, and some stupid lyrics
It's rare for a lead guitarist to have the chops to fill out the sound without a strong backing rhythm player. I've always been impressed by good three-piece bands. So when I hear Dada's 'Puzzle' album, with its solid guitar work, backed by competent bass playing and a drummer who is up to the task when guitarist Michael Gurley is really driving him, I enter a beautiful zone. The lush harmonies escalate the feeling. The songs are just amazing - even the simplest ones have the surprising changes, and the kind of structure and flow that define great songwriting. Unfortunately, the flow is interrupted periodically by the crashing intrusion of some truly awful lyrics; not that often, but often enough to keep an otherwise excellent album out of the five-star league. They were youngsters then; I'm pleased to hear they're still working together, and I'm hoping that more recent lyrics reflect some real maturity.


Japan Missing Pieces of Puzzle
I lent him the CD over the weekend, giving him a playlist (start with "Dim" (track 9), I said). A Japanese guitarist friend of mine plays Rush and Eric Johnson songs from memory but had never heard of Dada, much less "Puzzle", until now. First thing Monday morning he comes rushing up to me with a big smile on his face. "These guys f*#$ rock", he said with a pumped fist. "I bought all their CDs on Saturday," he added.

I wonder how many more music lovers in Japan are missing out on the music force that is Dada?!?! I guess it's up to me to educate the country one person at a time. Ganbarimasu!
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Love this album
I love ever song on here- including the bonus tracks that I had not heard before. I had this as a tape when it first came out and had been looking for it on Itunes- I decided that it was more cost-effective to buy the CD. So glad Amazon had it. .


14 Years of Ownership and Counting
This is a good filter too - usually it's the truly talented musicians and producers with their own garage studios that own a copy of "Puzzle". I purchased this albumn when it came out in 1992, and I still play it on a regular basis today. It's smart music, and that's what I enjoy the most. .


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