Brinsley Schwarz's 1972 release, Nervous on the Road, was more a bump on the road for the pub rockers, with it's regression back to generic, lifeless blues and jazz jams and bland rock n roll. There's very little original playing and the band failed to display the flair, passion and diverse songwriting of their other albums. Full of lifeless genre exercises a lot of the album fades into mild background music and displays some of the weaknesses of Pub Rock its lack of true ingenuity and sonic dynamism that other forms of rock were readily imbued with. There is a Stones quality to the silly jams and slurred vocals of I Like it Like That, Surrender to the Rythmm and Nervous on the Road (But Can’t Stay at Home) but overall a weak album. It does pick up with two of the last songs with the endearing romance of Brand New You, Brand New Me, while the song Why, Why, Why, Why, Why with it's snappy hook and driving mix of persistent acoustic guitar and short piano and country guitar fills; though it's the titular whining chorus harmonies that are the most memorable songwriting of the whole album not to mention the lead vocal is mixed a lot sharper and more prominent than rest of the album's leads.
Friday 19 January 2018
Brinsley Schwarz (1972) Why, Why, Why, Why, Why - LOST 70s GEMS
Brinsley Schwarz's 1972 release, Nervous on the Road, was more a bump on the road for the pub rockers, with it's regression back to generic, lifeless blues and jazz jams and bland rock n roll. There's very little original playing and the band failed to display the flair, passion and diverse songwriting of their other albums. Full of lifeless genre exercises a lot of the album fades into mild background music and displays some of the weaknesses of Pub Rock its lack of true ingenuity and sonic dynamism that other forms of rock were readily imbued with. There is a Stones quality to the silly jams and slurred vocals of I Like it Like That, Surrender to the Rythmm and Nervous on the Road (But Can’t Stay at Home) but overall a weak album. It does pick up with two of the last songs with the endearing romance of Brand New You, Brand New Me, while the song Why, Why, Why, Why, Why with it's snappy hook and driving mix of persistent acoustic guitar and short piano and country guitar fills; though it's the titular whining chorus harmonies that are the most memorable songwriting of the whole album not to mention the lead vocal is mixed a lot sharper and more prominent than rest of the album's leads.
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