audiospectrum
08-31-2005, 05:58 PM
It's very disheartening to read descriptions like these two in the discography section of this site. (see below) I totally understand that these two albums have a mixed reaction among some fans, but what about real, full-blown, 100% fans who like the whole package? It's Dave, and it's extremely hard to think of a song or interview or anything that actually rubs me the wrong way and puts me off Dave. So I guess this is a suggestion. Why don't you mods ask for reviews on these boards, make 'em sticky, whatever so people can read 'em, and they can reply with their own personal thoughts of each album. It's just WAYYY too cruel to order them because it's all about the mood. Any album can shoot to no. 1 if you're in the RIGHT mood!!
So next time someone treks onto the discography/lyrics section of the dlrarmy.com site, they will have a smattering of positive reviews towards Dave and his music, instead of "yeah kinda good album, this song was good, this song I'm not fond of etc."
Is this not a good point? It may grab a few more fans with real, in-depth and heartfelt bibliographies right from the filthy mouths of the real fans.
(Here are the bottom two ranking albums in the DLR/VH discography)
12. YFLM
Ok lyrically this is in my opinion was Dave's best album. What I didn't like about it was .. well.. this was the worst band in my opinion that he recorded with. The sound was just not there along with all the energy of his previous releases. This cd has 2 of my least favorite Dave songs "You're Breathin' It [Urban NYC Mix] and Cheatin Heart Cafe (with Travis Tritt). Everybody's got the Monkey is another song I am not fond of. The tour for this CD was disappointing as well. She's My Machine.. a decent song.. could have sounded better with a decent band. This cd was delayed several times and I remember going into the record store and asking when it was finally coming out and getting laughed at by some guy claiming to be a Sammy Fan.
Anyways.. this cd just did not ROCK! That being said it still gets play on my cd player and is better than anything I heard from Van Halen post 1985.
13. DLR BAND
The only reason why this gets rated here is because it is practically all covers. Dave did a great job on them but this album pales in comparison to his previous release "DLR BAND". You can tell that Dave did spend some time making this album and it is worth buying. I did like the shoo-bop video and if this is the direction that Dave's career is headed in then I am happy buying more stuff of this nature.
The thing I don't like about covers.. is that you don't get Dave's lyrics. DLR has wrote some of the greatest lyrical masterpieces in Rock history. I firmly believe that. I feel like he is way under hyped lyrically and I would have enjoyed to listen to a few more tunes that expressed his sense of humor and insight.
I think all reviews could be more in depth and/or more favourable towards Dave. I just don't think he's released anything short of a masterpiece yet, I hope I'm not alone with these thoughts.
So next time someone treks onto the discography/lyrics section of the dlrarmy.com site, they will have a smattering of positive reviews towards Dave and his music, instead of "yeah kinda good album, this song was good, this song I'm not fond of etc."
Is this not a good point? It may grab a few more fans with real, in-depth and heartfelt bibliographies right from the filthy mouths of the real fans.
(Here are the bottom two ranking albums in the DLR/VH discography)
12. YFLM
Ok lyrically this is in my opinion was Dave's best album. What I didn't like about it was .. well.. this was the worst band in my opinion that he recorded with. The sound was just not there along with all the energy of his previous releases. This cd has 2 of my least favorite Dave songs "You're Breathin' It [Urban NYC Mix] and Cheatin Heart Cafe (with Travis Tritt). Everybody's got the Monkey is another song I am not fond of. The tour for this CD was disappointing as well. She's My Machine.. a decent song.. could have sounded better with a decent band. This cd was delayed several times and I remember going into the record store and asking when it was finally coming out and getting laughed at by some guy claiming to be a Sammy Fan.
Anyways.. this cd just did not ROCK! That being said it still gets play on my cd player and is better than anything I heard from Van Halen post 1985.
13. DLR BAND
The only reason why this gets rated here is because it is practically all covers. Dave did a great job on them but this album pales in comparison to his previous release "DLR BAND". You can tell that Dave did spend some time making this album and it is worth buying. I did like the shoo-bop video and if this is the direction that Dave's career is headed in then I am happy buying more stuff of this nature.
The thing I don't like about covers.. is that you don't get Dave's lyrics. DLR has wrote some of the greatest lyrical masterpieces in Rock history. I firmly believe that. I feel like he is way under hyped lyrically and I would have enjoyed to listen to a few more tunes that expressed his sense of humor and insight.
I think all reviews could be more in depth and/or more favourable towards Dave. I just don't think he's released anything short of a masterpiece yet, I hope I'm not alone with these thoughts.