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共9首歌曲

艺人: David Rudder
语种: 其他
厂牌: Lypsoland
发行时间: 2008年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Don Snowden

After the lackluster International Chantuelle, David Rudder bounced back with a very energetic 2000 CD. Anthony Simeon's drums really drive the music hard here, especially under the flashing horns of &The Ground Troop,& and new touches include a Latin keyboard hook for &Wining in de Carnival& and an Archie Bell-cum-Spinners rhythm guitar lick for the sweetly seductive &Trini Girls.& But Rudder is a brilliant songwriter because he's so good at balancing words and music -- &Smiling Eyes of Steel& is a heartfelt eulogy of a deceased cricket player over gospel keyboard chords that doesn't wear out its welcome. The exceptional &The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club& reads like a short story of wrong-side-of-the-tracks Trinidad club characters converted to song, and the cleverly pointed metaphor of &Ground Troops& likens a NATO military incursion to a dancefloor rush. &It Doesn't Get Too Much Better Than This& lives up to its title if you're looking for a killer chorus hook and pure life celebration. So what to make of two versions of &Shake Down Time,& the second called &What the World Needs Is a Damn Good Shakedown&? That usually spells padding, but not with Rudder -- the different arrangements reflect the double meaning of the title and &When the rhythm of the world comes down on you/You know it's shake down time& lyric hook. The first salutes the liberating effect of the dancefloor nation, but the second sounds darker and more ominous -- the menacing point of view of the forces of control arriving to suppress a threat. Same song, same lyrics, but a sentiment turned around 180 degrees simply because the music changed. That's talent for sure and maybe genius -- there are very few artists worth checking out every time and David Rudder is definitely one of them.