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Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored Audio CD

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Evan Dando Band: Evan Dando
Title: Baby I'm Bored
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Release Date: 2004-01-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Repeat 2: My Idea 3: Rancho Santa Fe 4: Waking Up 5: Hard Drive 6: Shots Is Fired 7: It Looks Like You 8: Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is the Same Part I Can Live Without 9: Why Do You Do This to Yourself? 10: All My Life 11: Stop My Head 12: In the Grass All Wine Colored

Simply Magnificent
After a long hiatus I discovered Evan's Solo disc and bought it hoping for some of the same magic that had drawn me in to the Lemonheads - what I got was a delightful surprise. I have been a Lemonheads fan since the 90's when It's Ashame About Ray came out. Not only is this album excellent, but it pushes listeners into different genre's of music. Heavily country influenced, Dando writes songs that are crafted in his usual style, and played on an acoustic guitar.

Fans of the Lemonheads looking for punk rock will be disappointed, but any fan of good music will certainly want to hear this album. I am not a country fan but I love this album. You should also check out his Live at the Brattle album for a beautiful solo concert and of course the self titled Lemonheads return.


VERY NICE
The sound is great and seems to stray from the lemonheads sound quite a bit. Evan Dando steps up here with his first solo release. Singer-songwriter jems captured with a good backing band who doesn't over-power Dando's already perfect simple pop songs. The "alt-country" sound which the Lemonheads picked-up with "Lovey" is apparant here, but done in a different way. The sound is generally mellow and rocked-out. Get this homies.


I'm In The Grass All Wine Colored to Infinity
The songs are pure musical perfection, and Evan still holds the same brilliant musical spirit as ever before. While some have been critical of this album for numerosu reasons, mainly that it is post-recovery, I still find everythign Evan Dando touches to be gold. I have listened to Evan for many, many years, and a bad Dando album is till 100 times better than anythign else for me. I love it, and think it is a great album. "All my Life", and "In the Grass Wine Colored" are classics, to be sure. No matter what Evan sings, I find myself unable to shake it from ny head many hours later. Thanks, Evan, and keep writing. I have been through addicition, drug years, punk/power trash, etc, right there with you, and out the other side I am glad to have musicians like you blessing my ears.


Baby it's Boring
But after hearing former frontman Evan Dandos' solo project I somehow don't think so. Alas, I never heard the Lemonheads and perhaps they were something I would of liked.
It's not that there is anything horribly bad in this record, but thats it's problem, there isn't much of anything in this record. The songs sort of plod along in an unchangeing dirgelike rhythm (you could tap your foot to this entire record at more or less the same speed). The music is unremarkable unadorned chord strumming and the lyrics are quasi-wistful innocuous sad sack garbage that I seriously couldn't remember a line of five minutes after the record ended. In fact, I couldn't hum a bar from one of these songs right now and I listened to it this morning.
In short, unless you suffer from a severe case of insomnia, pass this record over for something else.


For the grad student in all of us...
If you rocked - kind of, sort of - to the Lemonheads when you were in your early twenties, now you can mellow out in your early thirties with Baby I'm Bored. Well, at least you can't accuse Dando of not growing along with his fans. None of these songs are particularly memorable but they capture the tone of pre-midlife-crisis angst perfectly: not so much depressed as resigned. Sure, life isn't as exciting as it was when you were back in the dorms but you know, uh, it's the only game around. Anyway, perfect for that moving-out-of-the-loft party you've got next weekend in Williamsburg.


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