CORPORATE LINE: Fastball is back with contributors from Spoon’s Mike McCarthy, NRBQ’s Al Anderson, Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, and Sheryl Crow songwriter Jeff Trott.
THE GREAT:
“I Get High” – Tony Scalzo offers the albums best song and is sounds amazingly close to Bon Scott’s timbre. It will make you yearn for AC/DC and oddly enough Elton John. This is the first song since Fastball’s hit “Out Of My Head” that you get genuine goose-bumps.
THE AVERAGE:
“Lou-ee, Lou-ee” –Scalzo has a magnificent voice—if only the chorus didn’t end in such an awkward manner this could be a phenomenal track.
“Shortwave” – Too short to be great.
“Falling Upstairs” – A good song that finds Zuniga and Scalzo harmonizing but not exactly Lennon/McCartney. Again Scalzo breaks off the chorus awkwardly as if he couldn’t figure out if the chorus was done or not.
“Perfect World” – Zuniga tries his best to do John Lennon—which is near impossible— and even though he doesn’t achieve that it’s not a bad song.
“Airstream” – Miles Zuniga has always given a nice satin vocal compared to Scalzo’s gruff sound—yet here he sounds like a bad Goo Goo Doll rip-off.
THE BAD: Nothing.
FRANKLY: Fastball is a band that can be so hit and miss that it drives you crazy. Tracks like “Lou-ee, Lou-ee” come so close to being fantastic yet never quite get there and it’s a shame.
+ Rae Gun
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