"I love Connect Four. If my entire family died and a stranger offered to play Connect Four with me for a full afternoon, I'd skip the funeral and blame it on car troubles."

Well, RARB has put up the review of "Straight Up", Last Call's latest CD. I had NO part of this CD, so it's not like it makes or breaks me, but they're still my boys, so I care.

http://www.rarb.org/reviews/554.html#

The BEST line of the whole thing: "Straight Up provides the most heterosexually dubious track list I've ever seen from an all guys group." Not only do I agree, but that about sums up my entire life...

Anyway, I NEVER thought I'd read LC compared, favorably, to Off the Beat and the 'Bubs. Who'da thunk, right?

Well, it's certainly an ambitious album, as most of the reviews will attest. It seems like they're catching Hell for using the a cappella equivalent of Kanye West and The Neptunes to produce the thing. All they did was start doing what every other group with a wad of cash to blow did. But I guess people expected more of LC or something.

Anyway, the CD never really screamed "Last Call" to me, but I liked it. Plus, the girlfriend liked it and outside of a few UMD Faux Pas references, I think she may be embarassed by the whole a cappella thing, so I guess the CD's got "convert potential"...

Posted by William @ 8/10/2005 09:55:00 PM
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• At 8/11/2005 02:22:12 PM, Karlos said…

  Just listened to the 1-minute clips on LC's website. Are they using drums (or synthesized drums) on acapella albums now, or is that just really convincing beat-boxing?
  
  I liked a couple of the tracks I heard, including "Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Scientist," but with a lot of it, I find the same problem I often have with acapella (particularly that of the ivy league all-male persuasion): it sounds like rock, made over with the personality of John Kerry; too clean-cut, overstressed pronunciation, vocals too nasal or "heady" at times... but I suppose that opinion's to be expected from someone who rates Eddie Vedder among his favorite vocalists ;-)

   

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