cagney1950

WIDTL is my absolutely favorite song on this album...I fell in love with it on QVC even with the crack on "kiss". I think it is the pefect song. Love every verse, chorus, and the refrain at the end really, really rocks...." Love the sentiment to this song. This one I really listen to the words. It seems to fit the Clay he has let us see. I think he really has a great pop voice on this song. Many great sounds on this song.

i know I will have to go back and read all of your comments. I am really enjoying the ones i get too but I know I am missing some. I need to listen to the words on this one.

ansa, I hear a bit of Touch in this too. It is a short song relative to the others, isn't it? this song is one of the songs referred to in some reviews, too. I love 99.99% of the sounds Clay makes but there is one sound on the "know" on the "world i used to know." Almost too pretty a "know..." I do like how it goes from that under water sound to a clearer sound when singing "fallin" but not sure what I think of the underwater part. In what universe is this a ballad i would like to ask ms. and mr. reviewer. I like all the songs on the album but this would be in my bottom 4 I think.

I hear the term "processed" to describe what they do to voices on records, I never understood what this meant, but I think this might be what I am hearing in the beginning of falling.

Gibby, yes, it does have a WAYDNYE kind of vibe clay can do jazzy, yes he can....

that last "something about us" at the end. It is so......well, gorgeous, his voice caresses the words and the accompaniment is so terrific, understated, not overwhelming..... "its old and new" a great sound there the growl comes after " a photograph" it is a minigrowl but powerful nonetheless

one review said that this album doesn't have any songs that would be covered by others. I think this has that potential. Did you hear that growl right before the last chorus?

i love the verses better than the chorus too but what a showcase for his voice. He sounds sooooo sophisticated in this song.... oh dear, he is that " a foooool can see" again, god I love that.

I think when I heard the snippets SAU was my favorite. It slipped to 2 but I still think it is incredibly gorgeous, incredibly sung... " A fool can see" Listen to the gorgeousness of the word "fool" and again "see" This post brought to you by the word "gorgeous" and its various forms

I agree, claygasm, this album is eclectic and I think that is part of its charms, I don't understand the critisism either that it is all ballads.

liney23,you are right, it is "well, now" verra, vera, niiiiiice love the guitar at the end. I am fantasizing that he will sing this with Bonnie some day.

I hear you! One of the most amazing phrases on the album and it is the same word twice! ETA for spelling. alot of problems with that tonight. I do love the end of it when he sings "last of the dying breed" before it fades out. Again a complicated song. Maybe too much going on. But it is growing on me.

This is the tale of two songs for me. It has Bonnie Raitt vibe which I love. I love the beginning of the song and towards the end. But I don't like "last of a dying breed" not the words but the sounds and where the melody goes with that phrase. It for me is the weakest part of the song.

I like that this song has so many different parts in terms of different effects for different versesm, harmony here, electronic there... I have no idea what the words are, really, I can't hear them except when they are connected to sounds I love. like "reminding me" in the second verse

saltie, I love that quiet last line too and ducky that electronic flair at the end. Didn't Clay say that he had the song writer change some of the verses to be less angry?

This song sung by a "artist" could be played on AC. I love all the different textures in this song. the verse where parts are in harmony with another male voice. is it his own or that the Jeff guy (piano guy who sings some backup according to the webisode.) I am also not a lyrics person. Its all about sounds, phrasing, beat, melody ETA: I meant a "cool artist"

with all my heart....love how he sings heart dream....how he goes up on dream...very fluid

"I've been luuuuuved" I love the full vowel sound in love. sort like a big "uuuhhhh". He sang it like that it BYLM, my favorite long on ATDW

OMWH has grown on me and I don't here the strings as much. I do like the guitar that is featured throughout. I don't find the lyrics cliched. And it is interesting to hear that for many of the reviewers that this is what they pick as the best of the songs on this album. Chuck Taylor's review of this single surprised me today.

hi guys! looking forward to the discussion!

What I dislike about the BB review is that it assumes that his claymates will like it, that's about it. In other words that it will have limited appeal. I don't believe that, from the snippets I heard. I do kinda get the "too perfect" for some parts of the snippets that I have heard though but I want to hear the whole song before I judge. I think pefect works really well on Something About Us, though. So far two reviewers have mentioned "Ashes." She calls it a pop-rock nugget -she likes it- while that was a miss for the People reviewer. The bottom line - you saw Clay Aiken on AI 2, liked him then, bought MOAM but nothing else. Would you be intrigued by this review to hear more?

idyjocelyn, thank you for the correction. Somehow when I wrote Black Sabbath it didn't seem write. Well I got the Black part right! :biggrin:

I have been really enjoying peeking in throughout the day here at work. I was just going to post that Billboard was out of step with most reviewers in 2003 in their praise of MOAM. I remembered ravenously collecting reviews...still have some yellowed copies in my Clay box! One review that I liked was from Elysa Gardner from USA. I think she gave him a 2 star out of four but it had alot of specific remarks about the album and hope that Clay would get material that his voice deserves. With the exception of Billboard, I don't think any review of MOAM was higher than 2 stars out of 4. I think EW gave it a C. I have always enjoyed reading reviews and yes, they have influenced me to buy albums even when I knew little about the artist. I was hoping that favorable reviews in outlets like People might predispose the nju to give Clay's album a try. Actually the sliver of a silver lining in the People review is the recommendation to download Something About Us. That is truly such a gorgeous song, gorgeously sung that it might tempt people to listen to the snippets available at Amazon and Walmart and the listening stations at the record outlets. (I think I got my love from reading the Saturday Review as a child. My parents got it and true to my nerd nature then (still going strong) I loved to read it.) musikest, I think you asked a question earlier today about the group that got a poor review even though the reviewer admitted not listening to the music. I think that was Black Sabbath and the reviewer was from Maxim. There was an interesting story about reviewers and how they review music on Weekend Edition on NPR on March 15. (I remember because it was the weekend I was going to Spamalot!). Anyhoo, they were making the point that often reviewers only listen to an album once and that is not enough in order to really appreciate a song. They said, how many of you bought an album, didn't like it the first time through, and then grew to love it? I know my purchase of Jack Johnson's On and On was like that. I heard one song on the radio, bought the cd, and then thought "they all sound the same." But as I listened, each developed there own personality. I absolutely love that album now. I find it astonishing that Ashlee Simpson's album only sold 41k. She has had some hi profile gigs like DWTS. Has anyone heard it? Is it any good? I do take issue with "schmaltzy" to describe this album. Well maybe OMWH could be described that way but the other songs don't give me that sense at all. Lover All Alone...in what universe is that shmaltzy? The VHI did not review OMWH and really didn't for most of the "must hear" cds they posted. I wonder if such a listing is publicity driven. They certainly did not make the description sound interesting. And we know that it took Clay just minutes to write the lyrics once he got down to it, but I remember in some of the concerts over the summer he left that part out, just said it took him 7 months.

OMWH will be played on WROZ between now and 1 PM EST. Here is the direct link, they stream! http://www.roseradio.com/

CG, I read on CH that Corabeth is looking for a home for a Sunday matinee ticket, I believe.