New JEKYLL & HYDE: RESURRECTION Sound Clips — Page 4

" Remember the old days, when musicians and singers made records, and people listened to them? The recording didn't have to be associated with a TV show, or DVD or a staged production. It was "simply" music to listen to."

Actually, in the "old days," albums were produced to promote an artist's upcoming concert tour. It's only been a recent trend that the tours are now designed to promote the album.

I didn't want to start my own thread. I just got my Korean import of the CD today. I like it a lot. There are definitely some things that I don't like, but overall it's very enjoyable. "Alive" is kick as$ and it's great to finally have Rob Evan on record singing Jekyll and Hyde. He's the highlight of the CD for me. I'm not too found of some of the vocalizing the girls do on "Someone Like You" and "Once Upon A Dream", but that could be stuff that'll just end up growing on me. It's a nice CD to have.

In other news, what happened to the Dracula CD?

I also have the Korean import cd....wonderful!

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"what is the point of this cd"

New Line Cinema is making a movie of J&H and they wanted it more pop. Wildhorn always wanted it to be more of a rock show to begin with.

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"Bring On The Men" is a personal favorite of mine. Hearing this new recording of the song...well, is there anything new about it? I guess I'd have to listen to the entire thing, but Linda Eder's version seems to be the ultimate.

And that back beat in "Dangerous Game"...well it's not my taste. But with that said I know I'll end up buying the full album and make sure to get a better listen.

It's available on itunes now

One thing to know -- on 4 tracks, the iTunes Music Store versions are ever so slightly different...

Since we have 3 big "segues" on this CD -- iTunes offered us the option of providing "non-segued" mixes -- on 3 occasions on the CD, there are overlaps and segues -- on the CD -- it is seamless... on iTunes, we re-mixed and ended or faded the songs out (and the overlap is not part of the iTunes version).

In case you were thinking about the CD vs. iTunes - the CD with the segues is pretty cool... just wanted to let everyone know about the very slight difference (and as an audio geek, full-bandwidth CD will always sound better to me than AAC files, but I'm an audio geek).

jasonf, same here.
When things are cheap I go for them, what can I say?

Here's my mini-review (mini because I have not listened to all the songs):

PROLOGUE/I NEED TO KNOW:
Solid introduction, I think. The electric guitar is a bit much, but I have always like this song and Rob Evans voice is sublime in it. Like Lippa's Wild Party the electric guitar seems out of place. I understand that this album is focusing on adding flavor and retracting the theatrics, but it somehow doesn't find the right balance. It is Rob Evans that saves this track.

BRING ON THE MEN:
This was the track that I was looking forward to the most. It turned out to be the most dissapointing. The music overpowers the vocals in places and there seems be to much orchestral flair that takes away from the piece. If it were purely an instrumental version this could work. But with vocals it doesn't and falls flat a lot for me. Linda Eder, where are you?

GIRLS OF THE NIGHT:
This I thought was one of the better tracks. The music has the right touch, and this is a good example of adding a different flavor to the song and still having it work. Again the vocals seem a bit drowned out, but it isn't that bad.

NO ONE KNOWS WHO I AM:
It's nice enough. The orchestrations take away from the vocals again it seems. The piano is doing all these things in the background when to me this is a very personal song and should be presented as such and focus more on the voice and message and not so much the music.

DANGEROUS GAME:
Wow. Um, what to say? From the odd "It's a dangerous game" at the beginning to the awkward back beat this song seems to lose a lot in this transition. The song was incredibly sexy and dangerous before. But this kind of rap background does nothing to add to that effect.

Overall it seems like a good effort but simply doesn't deliver in the places that it should.

Bottom line, stick with the original two disk set. You'll be a lot happier.

Just checked my Borders and Best Buy... They did not have it. The people at Borders gave me some story about it being released back in April???? Said they could order it? Ugh. Hopefully I'll find it soon.

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Updated On: 8/22/06 at 05:00 PM