Fidelity Is the Enemy

Fidelity Is the Enemy Artist: Jim Boggia
Label: The Orchard
Category: Music


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


UPC: 803680119129
EAN: 0803680119129
ASIN: B00005N8OV


Release Date: 2001-07-17

Fidelity Is the Enemy


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Tracks:

  1. So Full
  2. Toy Boat
  3. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
  4. Bubblegum 45s
  5. Several Thousand
  6. Black And Blue
  7. Untitled
  8. Untitled
  9. O/P
  10. Nothing Wrong With Me
  11. Peter Pan
  12. Weather
  13. That, For Me, Is You
  14. Unknown
  15. Bonus Track 1
  16. Bonus Track 2

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great album. .......2005-04-30

I wish the world would notice this one!
Came across '4 way street' and was very happy to learn that all of you guys work solo as well.
Keep going! Great album!

5 out of 5 stars Phenomenal .......2005-04-12

I remember first hearing about Jim Boggia from a friend of mine, drove down to Philadelphia from NYC, listened to him perform and bought 10 copies of his just released cd at that time, Fidelity is the Enemy, for me and my friends. I was BLOWN away.
This CD is probably one of the few cds in my collection that still makes it routinely in my cd carousel. This cd is timeless and wonderful.
If anyone ever gets a chance to see him perform- please do so. His shows are probably THE most fun and entertaining performances I have ever been to. He can make you laugh so hard with his off beat humour, yet touch you so deeply when he sings one of his beautiful ballads. This cd is definitely one of my top 5 favorites (and I have over a thousand records in my archive) and I have been waiting anxiously for this new release for some time now. If its 1/2 as good as the first, I wont be disappointed!

5 out of 5 stars Phenomenal and Phantastic.......2004-07-18

Brilliant album. Incredibly great songs by an incredibly talented musician. If you like music, you'll love this album.

5 out of 5 stars What the business doesnt know is going to kill them..........2004-02-27

What to say about Jim Boggia? I only get 1,000 words, and could write soooo much. If you don't know who Jim is, please...just do yourself a favor and listen to the record. It really is ahead of it's time, and even more so because his sound uses many elements from the 60's era of pop music (if that makes any sense at all). First of all, his songs are catchy, but in a different and interesting way. His music has so many layers that you can listen to the record over and over again and hear something new. He is a crafty musician and clever writer. His song lyrics are above and beyond anything that is on the radio right now; deep and profound lyrical masterpieces are next to bubblegum pop breakthroughs creating a wide range of emotions that keep the listener on the edge of their ears. Every song has something to say, and like Jim himself, they say it well, loud, and sometimes, tongue-in-cheek. "Fidelity is the Enemy" is a testiment to the music of yester-year, a time when music meant something and the musician had integrity. Too bad that the music industry today is too stupid to recognize it. Don't be the same.

5 out of 5 stars Extremely catchy and fun!.......2004-01-27

During an interview with Jim Boggia for Fresh Tracks Music, Boggia promised to send me a copy of his debut album "Fidelity is the Enemy." I received the album and after one listen I was blown off my feet, had the air knocked out of me, and all kinds of other clichés that basically mean "whoa." There were a good couple of minutes where I was just in shock that I had had the opportunity to talk to someone with so much talent and then I was a bit angry that somehow this CD had alluded me for almost 3 years, but soon I resigned myself to just being content at the beautiful melodies. Unfortunately for the readers, ever song is SO good that they deserve a bit of mention each.

The album starts off strong with the track "So Full" which was also included in a recent Awarestore EarSnacks compilation.

Track two is also noteable as the most rockin' song on the album, and the funniest moment when Boggia sings a number of memorable tongue twisters (rubber baby buggy bumpers).

Bubblegum 45s is the most fun song on the album, with an array of instruments including (but not limited to) the acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, tack piano, electric sitar, theremin, toy glockenspiel and sleigh bells. The song is about Boggia's childhood hobby of singing along to records trying to get the song exactly like the singers, having once thought that records were broadcasting bands playing live and getting the song the same every time.

Several Thousand has the best romantic line of the album "that
double rainbow ain't got nothing on you" but is quickly followed up by the album's first sad bastard song, Black and Blue, which fits into one of my favorite song categories (songs that reference themselves as songs) and contains such poignant sentiments as "take my latest failure and be sure you write it down so you can pour it out like water on me when I start to drown." Ouch....my heart.

But don't get too down, because the next song, O/P slaps some sense into pessimists of the world (you're crying about your half glass of milk before you've even spilled it/ I have a glass that's half-empty too/but I know life refills it).

Nothing Wrong With Me has beautiful and unique instrumentation and a kind of Sondre Lerche vibe, Peter Pan is appropriately dreamlike in which Boggia "bounced a basketball, rang a bicycle bell, hit an Indian drum, slunk a slinky, shook shakeys," etc., for added effect.

Weather steals the title of saddest song from Black and Blue, while That, For Me, Is You, steals the title of most touching. They are folksy and the most acoustic of the album.

So that's the whole album (other than a couple of little hidden
treasures)...not one stinker in the bunch. I'm sure many similarities can be drawn between Boggia and brilliant classic and contemporary artists, but he has such a wide variety of styles and is so keen on experimentation it's not even worth mentioning, as he seems to change and redefine himself from track to track.

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  2. Capricorn ~ Mike Tramp
  3. Brown Cyclopaedia ~ Pelt
  4. Dub FX ~ Dub FX
  5. 20th Century Blues ~ Robin Trower
  6. I Am the Greatest! ~ Cassius Clay
  7. Y.U. So Shady? ~ Grady
  8. Soulages ~ Lazy Sunday Dream
  9. Trace ~ Trace
  10. Shredology/Midwest Shredfest ~ Joe Stump

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Sensuous Sax: The Spark ~ Various Artists

Relaxin' ~ Miles Davis Quintet

Tokyo: 1976 ~ Barry Harris

Best Best Best ~ Koji Kikkawa

Feng Shui Spirit ~ Various Artists

Souchon Du Bout Des Doigts ~ Michel-Yves Kochmann

Tribal Voices: Music from Native Americans ~ Various Artists