first "at this time" review
Moderator: mark
re: this soulwalking review
Though this review is indeed favorable, it really is a rubbishy review overall, written by someone who obviously knows bugger-all about music.
"Writes off-tune music then finds an off-tune singer" ? NOT!
And puh-LEEZE... don't even put Burt's name on the same page as Joni Mitchell.
Mitchell is the ultimate arthouse poseuse, a legend in her own mind, and her music has always been the height of self-indulgent whimsy. A kind of musical vomit. Why anyone would want to listen to her reefer-smoked whine and scat about her zillions of sleepovers is anybody's guess.
Also, she stole the riff for the coda to "Help Me" from Burt's "Promises, Promises". Going from Imaj9----->bVImaj9 and back again.
I'm waiting to read a truly informed and profound discussion of AT THIS TIME.
"Writes off-tune music then finds an off-tune singer" ? NOT!
And puh-LEEZE... don't even put Burt's name on the same page as Joni Mitchell.
Mitchell is the ultimate arthouse poseuse, a legend in her own mind, and her music has always been the height of self-indulgent whimsy. A kind of musical vomit. Why anyone would want to listen to her reefer-smoked whine and scat about her zillions of sleepovers is anybody's guess.
Also, she stole the riff for the coda to "Help Me" from Burt's "Promises, Promises". Going from Imaj9----->bVImaj9 and back again.
I'm waiting to read a truly informed and profound discussion of AT THIS TIME.
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Juste
I hate to burst your bubble rasputin, but the I to flat IV has been going on before Promises, Promises.
And if we want to talk about originality, Burt ripped off Ravel in "WHOEVER YOU ARE" during the section when she sings "Faithful and warm when I'm in your arms and then when you leave, you're so untrue." It's directly taken from Ravel's Pavane for a dead princess.
And if we want to talk about originality, Burt ripped off Ravel in "WHOEVER YOU ARE" during the section when she sings "Faithful and warm when I'm in your arms and then when you leave, you're so untrue." It's directly taken from Ravel's Pavane for a dead princess.
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Guest
I've known both works since I was a kid and never noticed a relationship. So even if I should think that's true (when I stop listenig to concert excerpts gabba provided links for), I wdn't think it was on purpose.
I second Rasputin's point in that there's a world of differnece between Burt and Joni -- as between Burt and just about any other living composer.
I second Rasputin's point in that there's a world of differnece between Burt and Joni -- as between Burt and just about any other living composer.