Re: Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin to Get Saved (only 40 minutes long!)

by Guest Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:56 pm

Last one!

Title track!

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:57 pm

She can sure sing, but I find her voice exhausting.

Like Laura Nyro or Bonnie Bramlett.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:57 pm

Party vibe.

by Guest Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:57 pm

Talking. Shuffle type of song.

3 seconds in and you know exactly how it will go, How the middle 8 will be and how it will end.

Some people like that in a song.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:58 pm

This is my least favourite track on the album. It's OK but too, "Fun."

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:58 pm

This really is like Laura Nyro's soul/blues stylings.

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:00 pm

I think I've...

No, wait, very horrible shouty, croaky backing vocals! bawl

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:00 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:This is my least favourite track on the album. It's OK but too, "Fun."

It'd be more fun if it wasn't nearly 6 minutes long. sad yes

by Guest Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:01 pm

It'll go on too long and fade out.

Or will be a Fudly Dumpf! ending?

by Guest Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:01 pm

I was right the second time.

I fast forward it.

I preferred her new album yes

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:02 pm

This is a real chore to listen to.

Shrill and abrasive and boring are the operative words.

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:02 pm

Right, Only Connect has started.

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:03 pm

I like this bit at the end when you can hear that they've stopped and are putting down their instruments and going for cup of tea.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:03 pm

It is over.

I feel that is a pleasing but undemanding album which is like putting on a cosy pair of slippers. I feel it's the album on which she reached her vocal peak. It has to be said, her lack of enthusiasm for the project doesn't show in her performance level.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Guest Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:04 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.

by Nightjar Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:17 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It is over.

I feel that is a pleasing but undemanding album which is like putting on a cosy pair of slippers.

Yes, quite cosy at first, but then, gradually, more and more uncomfortable.

Finally, as you writhe about in agony, you realise the shop sold you not a pair of nice tartan slippers with a non-slip tread, but some red hot horseshoes straight out of the blacksmith's furnace. dontpanic

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:49 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.

Everyone loved it. happy

by Guest Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:31 am

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Anyway, the story behind this album. Every time she submitted a demo to her record company, of the records she wanted to make, they rejected them. So she made this album to try and give them the kind of album they did want, an easily-accessible Country album. She also brought in her former Lone Justice bandmates, for the purpose.

It's got a fair number of covers on it because she couldn't be bothered to write many new songs for it.

By the mid 1990s, in interviews, she was pretty much disowning it. However, it has always been very popular with the fans.

Neil Young being forced into making a rock album by Geffen was hilarious, as long as you don't have to listen to it.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:24 am

Speaking of which, Maria sings Neil Young. happy

That was quite restrained by her standards. happy

by Guest Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:38 am

She should have done

Although, that's a cover, so that really doesn't work, oh well.

Having already created tension with his label, Geffen Records, with the previous year's Trans, in 1983 Young offered the label a country album he'd recorded the previous fall called Old Ways. Young's music had previously shown the influence of country music, including his most successful album, Harvest (1972). Geffen, however, reeling from the commercial and critical failure of Trans, rejected Old Ways and demanded "a rock & roll album."

Tee Hee

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