Help me decide whether I like this CD

[Homebrew]

Last week I went to Amazon to buy Max Stalling’s Wide Afternoon CD. They didn’t have it in stock, but offered it used through their “marketplace” option. So I bought it and the vendor turned out to be a Warehouse Music outlet somewhere in Arizona. That’s all well and good. The disc arrived in perfect condition, plays with no skips. We’re copacetic.

They also shipped along two free CDs. So I got three CDs from widely divergent genres. One neo-traditional county, one rock and one free-form jazz. That’s not an issue as my CD collection, just at work, contains an eclectic mix encompassing Asleep at the Wheel, Beck, Prodigy, Nina Simone, Jimmy Buffett, Rufus Wainwright, Old 97s and Molly Hatchet. I’ve got no problems switching genres as the mood strikes.

The first free CD is Searching for Jimi Hendrix which features 11 Hendrix covers by such diverse artists as Laurie Anderson, Los Lobos and Chuck D. It’s interesting, even fun. I particularly like Neville & Sheena Staples’ cover of Up from the Skies. But come on, only Stevie Ray Vaughan has the chops to cover Hendrix.

The second free CD is the one I’m struggling with. It is called Revolver: A New Spin by Ann Dyer & No Good Time Fairies. It’s a jazzy reinterpretation of every song of the Beatles’ seminal Revolver album. Let me relate the description in the liner notes.

Cold-rockin’ jazzbo Jedi Knights, vocalist Ann Dyer & No Good Time Fairies feel Revolver’s songs down to the pauses in-between the pauses. Fearlessly deconstructing every song to it’s melodic/lyrical essence, they then remodel them with space/time rhythm shifts, guitar/sitar glissandi, ethereal accordion, rococo tablas, subterranean-bassaphonics, rapturous saxophone, and Dyer’s transcendent Hindustani chanting - notebending exalting - spirit/cosmic wavesurfing - moodswinging contralto.

Listening to it is a surreal experience. I feel like I should be wearing a black turtleneck and beret, sitting in some smokey back-street coffee bar, snapping my fingers to show approval (if that indeed is what I want to show - I don’t even know how beatniks show disapproval). I’m fairly certain some pharmaceuticals would be beneficial to the experience.

Help! Has anyone else heard this? What can you tell me about Ann Dyer & No Good Time Fairies? And, most importantly, should I use this disc for skeet or will I learn to appreciate it, maybe even enjoy it?

[scout1222]

I’m not sure, but no matter how many times I reread that quote from the liner notes, I have no friggin’ clue what they’re trying to say.

I’ve never heard of these folks, but I’d recommend listening to it a few times to see if it does grow on you. If not, well, nothing lost, nothing gained, right?

[Homebrew]

I refuse to believe that a thread about "What’s the Best Eminem Song??? " is worthy of more responses than mine.
[sub]No offense meant to the OP of that thread, but Eminem?! This thead has The Beatles and jazz in it![/sub]

[Mockingbird]

The description of the liner notes begs to be burnt, and the disc is destined to be skeet.

[23skidoo]

*Originally posted by Homebrew *
**I refuse to believe that a thread about "What’s the Best Eminem Song??? " is worthy of more responses than mine.
[sub]No offense meant to the OP of that thread, but Eminem?! This thead has The Beatles and jazz in it![/sub] **

That thread is asking people for their opinion. This thread is asking people to be psychic. How should I know whether you will like a CD or not?

[pesch]

Considering that I loved “All This And World War II,” a cover of Beatles tunes by Leo Sayer, the Bee Gees, Frankie Valli and Keith Moon, you don’t want to know what I think of this.