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one of a kind/Relationships,
I don’t know why they never
work out/and they make you
cry, but the guy that says good-
bye to you is out of his mind.”
The message is sweet, remind-
ing every man to appreciate his
girl.
“When the Time is Right" is
a beautiful ballad, reminiscent
of feel-good bands of the ’70s
such as Fleetwood Mac.
“Hanging On (Tom’s Song),"
a tribute to a friend of House’s,
also is a bright spot in the
album.
Guys, if you want to make a
great impression, get the CD
and listen to it in front of your
girlfriends. While I was study-
ing with a friend of mine, she
poked her head over my com-
puter as House's lyrics played
and said, “Aww, that’s cute."
It sounds like a chick CD,
she added. The album makes it
seem “guys are sensitive."
I couldn’t agree more with
her. It’s almost like House is
singing a 52-minute musical
version of an eHarmony appli-
cation.
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House’s lyr-
j ics are great,
I they just
| border on boy
I band fame,
I and it disap-
pointed me
he couldn’t
be a bit more
diverse.
i Overall,
“Flying Upside
Down" has the
feel of a road trip in Nebraska.
Corn fields might be cool at
first, but it’s just more of the
same thing.
Brandon White is a
journalism senior.
CD Rating: W
"Flying Upside Down"
Griffin House
Self-Released
"Fmei Ben Rector about a week-and-a-half
I ago when he opened for Dave Barnes in
^Oklahoma .Memorial Union. I had never
heard of him. and I had never heard tus
music. As we talked, he told me, that while
he loved playing music, it wasn't something
he saw himself doing for the rest of his life.
The next morning, as I listened to his
album I thought, “Too bad for the rest of us."
Rector, originally from Tulsa and now a
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His piano-driven pop optimism is
reminiscent of The Rocket Slimmer, but
Rector's voice blows Bryce Avary’s out of the
water. ”
talent, and his debut album.
“Twenty Tomorrow," is a
piano-pop gem Something
Corporate only wishes they
had released.
At his live show, Rector
had some neat tricks like
covering “The Fresh Prince
of Bel-Air" theme song
acoustic-style and loop-
ing his voice with multiple
guitar tracks to create an
instrumental wall of sound. -----
The crowd loted it, and it
• ertainly was entertaining, but it was the
kind of thing you might expect from an inex-
perienced opening musician without many
decent original songs to play.
But one listen to “Twenty Tomorrow"
dispels any notion Rector’s original mate-
rial is lacking. He’s clearly a gifted song-
writer, whether he’s singing to his girl on
"Amazing," reflecting on growing up in the
title track or giving heartfelt advice to his
young nephew on “Hank."
Rector's lyrics are earnest and immediate
there’s a genuineness that pervades his
music. This isn’t mass-produced banality.
I his isn t pompous indie obscurity. Rector
is earnest, and he means what he sings. It’s
refreshing.
He mixes upbeat pop anthems like “Bright
Lights and On My Own” with the yearning
"Who I Am" and the confessional “I’m Okay.
His piano-driven pop optimism is reminis-
cent of The Rocket Summer, but Rector’s
voice blows Bryce Avary’s out of the water.
I'm not hating on Avaty — I rather like his
unusual vocal stylings, but there isn’t a soul
who would use the words strong, rich or
_ Rector’s voice is all that and more. He con-
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talent. Rector’s got some to spare.
1 know Rector said he doesn't want to
play music his entire life, but I feel a little
like begging. That's probably too pathetic,
so I’ll ask him to reconsider.
Listen to the album. Then we can ask
him together.
Dusty Somers is a journalism
sophomore.
CD Rating:
Nettwerk Productions
A (bums take me plac-
es, some good and
X Lsome bad.
Within the first few min-
utes of Griffin House s lat-
est album, “Flying Upside
Down," I wanted to sit on
a front porch and smoke
a cigar while watching the
sunset.
Unfortunately, I listened to
the rest of
the CD.
House,
originally of
Nashville,
Tenn., has
churned
out albums
annually
since 2002.
The unfor-
tunate thing
is it sounds
like an annual album. Yes,
House has talent, but the
guitar solos are the same
from song
to song with
the same
tempo,
leaving all
the pieces
feeling the
same. The
album was
not fulfill-
ing.
I did,
however, find
a few excep-
tions.
“The Guy that Says
Goodbye to You is out of
His Mind" is an excellently
written song, falling just
short of lyrical genius. The
opening line is “You don’t
need to change a thing
about you babe/I’m telling
1 the album, comfortable in his natural lower
range and in his falsetto. It makes for an
unexpected combination with the type of
music he plays, and it helps to set Rector
further apart from the scores of mediocre
piano-pop bands who have their feet too
firmly planted in emo territory.
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Zaman, Ashiq. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 92, No. 137, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 15, 2008, newspaper, April 15, 2008; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1812418/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.