Davy Jones' Locker

Artist: Ocean Blue
Label: What Are Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 744626004423
EAN: 0744626004423
ASIN: B000059M25

Release Date: 2001-03-13

Davy Jones' Locker

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Tracks:

Ayn
Garden Song
Denmark
My Best Friend
Cukaloris
Been Down A Lot Lately
Consolation Prize
Cake
Bottle Yours
I Can't See You
So Many Reasons
Do You Still Remember Me?
It Never, Just Might

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Customer Reviews:

Always a Pleasure.......2004-08-21

TOB have another gem on their hands. Full of shimmering delicate songs that one would expect.

I'm really glad to see other members singing. Drummer Rob Minnig's "Been Down a Lot Lately" is actually my favorite song on the CD. Oed Ronne's "Consolation Prize" is a class act as well.

"Ayn", "Denmark" and "Cake" sparkle. The breezy instrumental "Cukaloris" is top notch.

Why on earth TOB aren't wider known has always puzzled me. Treat your ears.

Ocean Blue does it again........2003-12-24

David Schelzel is one of the most underrated songwriters of our time. The Ocean Blue, on this CD, shows that it is one of the most underrated bands of our time. It starts off with "Ayn" a song about a guy who can't get a girl out of his mind. "Garden Song" compares a garden to love. The best song on the CD, "Denmark" talks of meeting a lover and then leaving her. The singer wonders whether or not this is the right thing to do. "Cake" has a very haunting chorus of "Don't batter your own when you bake your cake." The effect is somewhat similar to Buddhist monks chanting, but not quite the same. "Bottle Yours" reminds you to think about good things when life gets you down. About the only complaint I could make about this CD is the song "My Best Friend" in which Schelzel gets a little whiny. Otherwise, it's a top-notch effort.

Great album.......2002-12-06

Let me just join the chorus and say that I love this album! In fact I think this may be my favourite of all their albums (not that I don't think the other ones are great too). As usual the songs are very creative and varied. The guitar work and arrangements are outstanding. And they are very accessible without becoming "pop". I thought the production was excellent even though it was done from a home studio.

One of the most underrated bands in the U.S.!.......2002-10-19

DJL is a fantastic TOB release. The songs are well crafted, hooky, and dreamy. 'Cake' and 'Denmark' are absolutely beautiful and sublime! TOB are without a doubt, one of the best and underrated bands in America. If you like good music, get this and "Cerulean".

It's all good...where are you coming from?.......2002-05-23

If you like one TOB CD, you'll like them all. If you own one TOB CD, then you probably own them all. To make a TOB "best of" CD would be too tough to pull less than 5 songs from each CD. Almost to a fault, this is one of the most consistent bands for musical quality in composition and style, and that hasn't wavered with DJL. This is certainly the most underrated American band - EVER! (Trash Can Sinatras - most underrated European and of all time.) TOB is the best collection in a long time of individual talent as a complete band. The 70's had Zeppelin and (early) Van Halen, the 80's had The Cure and the Smiths, and TOB should have been the 90's equivalent. America should be ashamed to let this kind of talent and sound slip by for over a decade while garbage like Eminem and Brittany Spears corrode the public taste buds with cultural flattery.

I liked the keyboard element of TOB's music and was skeptical of the last two releases when I heard the keyboardist "left." However, I didn't rule TOB out and I'm glad because I would have been completely wrong. The changes have been mild and worth it. To me, those who are nay-saying the entries from Ronne and Minnig simply refuse to accept change. "Ayn" and "Garden Song" are among my favorite and are great throwbacks to the first two CDs. But the greatness of the first two CDs is not in the style. It's the quality of the songwriting and instrumentation, and that has remained true on DJL. On a musical level, the 3 songs in question are easily as good as the rest. The guitar work and bass line interplay on "Consolation Prize" and BDALL is simple, but well done, and instrumentals like "Cukaloris" always suggest to me that the writer/band values music first. And it's a nice song, too. What baffles me most about the grief given to these 3 songs is that they are great tributes to the bands that inspired TOB. If you don't hear the Smiths, REM and others in these tunes, you're musically deaf. And if you don't like those bands, how did you discover TOB? Go sell your soul to a genre.

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