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Sanchez - 'Run The Streets' (7Hard) Print E-mail
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Written by Ross Welford   
Thursday, 23 June 2011 05:30

SanchezRunTheStreetsIt'll be easier to tell you what I like about this album than the things I don't;
 

Michelle Holmgren, the model on the cover of the album. The fact postman Dan won't get a bad back delivering these because no fucker will buy it. The half an hour that it gave me to find a great recipe for szechuan tofu on the net. The guitarist.....that's not even in the band.


I'm sorry Sanchez but you cannot sing for shit. That is the underlining fact that you cannot escape from. If a band carries your name, surely you need to be the shining beacon of light, the one everybody looks too, the one with the ideas? Or at least be the best singer in the band??? He's only written half of the 10 tracks on this disc and they're only half credits at that. Having been around in the music biz since the late 80s, he should by now have been told enough is enough. AOR/Glam bands need a decent singer to carry home the softer melodic leanings of the songs and without one, no matter how good a song, it will falter.


To add to my amusement even more, when listening to it through gritted "I'm taking one for the team" teeth, I'm thinking that the guitarist is actually doing a great job throughout some average material so when I go to credit him, I find out he's not even a band member! And then also find out that the drummer played all the rhythm guitars?? There's probably reasons for all of it but no one should care enough to be bothered about it. I'm not.


The promo quote "One of Sweden's finest" is probably the biggest exaggeration I've ever read.


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