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August 21, 2008
Music Review: Eve's Burden
A California band called Eve's Burden was kind enough to send me a digital press kit (I'm not sure why; perhaps somehow they saw some of my music posts). I felt obliged to honor their troubles and give a listen to the tracks that were available their website (www.evesburden.com). After a first listen, the songs are a little nondescript and the production quality seems a tad iffy on some tracks. "The Black Letter" has a good melody but I'm not really taken with the chorus. Their song "Love Keeps Me Hangin On" turns me off by rhyming "standing in the rain" with "tears of pain" immediately. One of my artistic pet peeves has been over-use of the cliched rain/pain coupling, but this is hardly unique to Eve's Burden--many bands I like do it a lot. It seems like space filler when the lyricist can't think of anything else to say. "Like A Wildcat" is rap-heavy, but Rage Against the Machine does it better. "The dogs are licking my face/I eat the leftover food from behind the pizza place" (followed by a second use of "face" as a rhyme) in "Peace to a Fool" doesn't really do much for me in a song that takes itself seriously. I'm pretty easy to please and a total skinflint, so the questions I would ask are as follows: is it worth a listen? Sure. Would I pay for it? No. But don't take my word for it. You can check them out at www.evesburden.com.
"I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back It's not nearly as good a question as the ones Steve Horwitz posted on The Austrian Economists a few days ago, but Josh et al. might find your answers useful for the "Abba to Zeppelin, Led" music site. Posted by Art Carden at 07:29 PM in Culture
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I would like to nominate the entire song "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Genesis. This was a stage at their career when Phil Collins thought he was especially clever at improvising lyrics for entire songs. He wasn't, of course, and the result was nonsense such as: I'm coming down, coming down like a monkey, but its alright This is so depressingly far to fall from something like "The Battle of Epping Forest." Posted by: Mike Hammock at August 21, 2008 09:14 PMI ORIGINALY HEARD OF "EVE'S BURDEN" FROM A FRIEND WHO HEARD THEM ON THE WEB ON Eve's Burden, while they are a new group, and their production quality isn't the most amazing I have ever heard, is an awesome new group. I love that they stay true to their sound even though they could have tried to cater the the teeny-bop times that we are in. These artists, obviously from many different backgrounds, have come together in an interesting and exciting way. They may not be everyone's cup of tea, but their album has been in my car's stereo for several weeks now, ever since I got it. As soon as I heard "california rain" and "goin up" on myspace I was hooked. I wish that I had bought my tracks from itunes instead of snocap, cuz I bet the MP4s sound better than the MP3s, but still...awesome. Posted by: A.J. at August 23, 2008 02:39 PMIs it really that hard for you guys to hear rhymes that didn't take a week to come up with? Sometimes the simplest, easiest rhymes are the ones that hit people the hardest, and touch them the most. One of my favorite songs ever has a chorus that simply repeats "some time alone..." over and over again! I will have to check out Eve's Burden, who apparently started this whole ridiculous exchange, but I can't imagine they warrant a whole conversation about how artists should think of more difficult rhymes. Have any of you ever studied poetry? Repetition is a very powerful device. You should try writing a song that repeats some words in their rhymes...maybe you all might make some money doing it!!! Then you won't have to sit around bitching about how other people are getting rich from simple rhyme schemes! Posted by: Whitney at August 23, 2008 02:55 PMi just checked EVE'S BURDEN out and WOW |
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