Cool Rock

Cool Rock Artist: Chris Lee
Label: Misra Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 656605501826
EAN: 0656605501826
ASIN: B00009B8DA


Release Date: 2003-06-03

Cool Rock


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Tracks:

  1. Cossacks of Love
  2. Sail On
  3. (I Was a Teenage) Symphony to God
  4. Lately I Want You
  5. Bronx Science (Julie Ann)
  6. Understand (I'm Your Man)
  7. Say It Ain't Soul
  8. Nobody Cares for Me

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Lee's best yet.......2003-11-29

An amazing amalgamation of sounds. From the notes Lee hits in "Lately" to the horns in "Symphony", it's one of the best albums out in the past couple of years, and by far Lee's best album yet. However, not even a comparison to Lee live.

1 out of 5 stars Experimental jazz sounds un-"COOL" and evidently un-"ROCK".......2003-09-17

Mention the title of this album to someone and await the universal signal of disinterest...no response. Play the album and receive more of the same.

Chris Lee's cliched metaphors and ambitious song titles display a songwriter in need of some soul searching, but he deserves credit for singing about his limitations I suppose albeit unknowingly.

Witness the following lyric, "I'm just a man who sings what I know, oooh oooh oooh ooohhh say it ain't soul," he coos his lines amidst the backdrop of formless and unexpressed guitar strums. The rest of the album features displaced jazz chords which puntuate the recording's lack of cohesion and unity.

This is hardly the stuff of lyrical genius. Call it indie rock with no driving sound. Folk with no meaning. Rock with no influences. Neo-soul devoid of profundity. Whatever you label it, the pretentiousness of COOL ROCK begs the listener for a wistful refund of the 30 minutes you spent listening for the music which never surfaces.

Music Album:

  1. Under Glass ~ Hash Jar Tempo
  2. Octane ~ Spock's Beard
  3. Turn Up the Barn ~ Dirtball
  4. Legends of the 20th Century ~ Eddie Cochran
  5. Softcore Jukebox ~ Ladytron
  6. A History (1982-1985) ~ The Golden Palominos
  7. Live...With A Little Help From Our Friends ~ Gov't Mule
  8. Squad Five-O ~ Squad Five-O
  9. Link
  10. Simple Days ~ Champale

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

We'll Be Together Again ~ Pat Martino

Complete Trumpet Kings Battle: Studio Sessions ~ Dizzy Gillespie

Smooth Jazz Romance ~ Various Artists

Dreamcatcher ~ Soulservice

Confitures de Gagaku ~ Jean Derome

Natalia ~ Tour%C3%A9 Kunda

Rauhe Wege ~ Wolfgang Petry

Live ~ Africando

Voice of Mind Extra Verion ~ Tatsuo Nishiura

Let Me Be With You ~ Round Table