Basic Glee

Basic Glee Artist: Richard X. Heyman
Label: Turn Up Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 803597008127
EAN: 0803597008127
ASIN: B00006B1FK


Release Date: 2002-07-16

Basic Glee


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Tracks:

  1. Everywhere She Goes
  2. Pauline
  3. One Way Feeling
  4. Let It Go
  5. When Evening Comes
  6. Diminishing Her Return
  7. Broken Umbrella
  8. Vantage Point High
  9. Wishful Thinking
  10. What In The World
  11. Waterline
  12. That Will Be The Moment
  13. Hand Prints
  14. My Lorraine Bow

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Product Description

Though thoroughly modern and fresh in its sonic approach, Basic Glee offers glorious echoes of a shining moment when rock music was reaching towards the glee of greatness on a daily basis...Richard is an artist driven by more than the search for a hit hes someone whos personally obsessed and intimately connected with the power of rock & roll in our lives. Music is more than a career to this guy its a lifelong passion. And thats why his blood is all over these tracks...when it comes to those priceless seconds of musical pleasure brought to us by a true rock artist like Richard X. Heyman, glee is not simply basic. This sort of glee is downright infectious. -David Wild, Contributing Editor Rolling Stone Magazine

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars hardly any filler.......2005-05-19

Every album he makes is just a little bit better than the last one. This is the best one so far. I think the coolest track on this album is "Pauline." If I had to pick one song as being the very best, "Pauline" is it. I like "Waterline" and "Hand Prints" as well. Everybody says his music is very styled in the 60's, but to me it sounds very modern, maybe just because of the way he records it. His pianos and harpsicords always sound like they're coming off a synthesizer. The drums are real, but they don't really sound like drums on 60's albums. The 12-string chimes away on a lot of songs and it actually sounds VERY much like the 60's. The musicianmanship is very tight, which is an accomplishment because Richard X. Heyman is really the only musician on the bulk of these recordings. The recordings sound very polished and very modern, not loose enough to sound like the 60's. But mostly this music is very good and it's very easy to give 5 stars, unlike most the dribble that comes out these days.

Howie.

5 out of 5 stars Epitome of well crafted pop.......2004-10-28

Another excellent record by RXH. I own the previous 3 releases by Richard going back to 1990. They are all very good, but this just might surpass the rest. He does all the writing, plays virtually all the instruments, but this one man show encapsulates all that is great about harmonious pop/rock. Full fledged bands wish they could sound so full. Highly recommended for any fans of unabashed joyous harmony. Highlights include Everywhere She Goes, When Evening Comes, Vantage Point High, What in the World, That Will be the Moment, and on and on. You need to get this.

5 out of 5 stars Not unlike the 1964-65 Beatles.......2003-07-19

Yes, I know "not unlike the 1964-65 Beatles" is the highest praise I can give. RXH writes very clever songs with nice harmonies. They're straightahead rock (some people also call it pop, although he bangs away at the drums and belts out his songs). It rocks, but never at the expense of melody.

Click on Pauline for a fairly good representative of his fast stuff, or on When Evening Comes for slower stuff.

5 out of 5 stars A perfectly crafted pure-pop gem!.......2002-12-06

If you want the epitomy of what would be called an immaculate, perfectly crafted pop record, then you've come to the right place. RXH combines killer melodies one after another, gorgeous vocal harmonies, and layer upon layer of guitar to create a pure-pop gem that any radio station should be swooning over, except that they are too busy trying to find next week's MTV star. CHECK IT OUT!

5 out of 5 stars

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