Album Review by EDF
It is interesting to come across the different reasons why people decide to record an album’s worth of music. We have New Yorker Linda Finkle, a mother with two children who feels strongly about how much the world has changed since 9/11. Linda confesses that some of her songs are not politically correct. Hmm, this should be good if not interesting, shouldn’t it? Ah, no, it isn’t is the answer and here is why.
You see, it’s like this, while running a business with her husband Linda came up with a theme tune to help promote their business. From that point onwards, Linda continued to write more tunes and even learned guitar to help her compose her songs. She went straight into a recording studio to record them and posted them onto her website. The response she got convinced her to record a whole album’s worth of music. Unfortunately, Linda’s lack of song writing and vocal training are so obvious that if a member of your own family attempted to put you through this, you would politely make excuses to leave the room as so not to offend them.
Some of these songs remind me of the sort of MOR tunes that would have been played on the radio when I was growing up during the last century. In fact, not only is there a lack of musical inventiveness, some of the lyrics reek of pure jingoism that would find George Bush Jr listening to this as he prepares for his re-election. If Linda wants to write about this sort of subject, she is more than free to but she should at least listen to Bruce Springsteen’s THE RISING to see how it is really done.
