ARTIST: Mark Roebuck with Noonday Ruin
TITLE: Some Half-Remembered Thing
LABEL: CD Baby
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 50:15 min
SIZE: 84,0 MB
RIP DATE: Apr-08-2007
RELEASE DATE: Apr-04-2007
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. Chrysantemum 03:50
02. Sweet Night 03:01
03. Luna 03:52
04. Small Faces In Crowded Places 03:49
05. I'm Getting To Know You 04:06
06. I've Come To Watch The End of the World 05:04
07. Scatter Gun 02:32
08. It Was Too Late 04:48
09. I've Been Thinking About School 03:22
10. One of God's Dropped Toys 04:30
11. 16 Then and Wake Up Anne 02:47
12. Howard The Clown 04:02
13. I Want It Back 04:32
14. All The Time In The World 07:19
15. Bonus Track 02:30
Release Notes:
"Big Event!! Mark Roebuck was the leader of the long-lost
80s power pop band, The Deal, whose one official release
ended up on Not Lame's legacy label. Roebuck released a
really good side project called Big Circle a few years back,
but on " Some Half-Remembered Thing " he soars and shines as
only he can. He has one of the more unique and truly beautiful
voices you'll hear in pop. Listen to "Chrysantehmum" below. If
you don't hear Chris Bell (Big Star) all over this track, time
for you spend more time at Pitchfork as you are in the wrong
place. Seriously, the sounds here blend early Big Star, early
Wire Train, The Posies circa 1989-1991 and The Hollies. So,
yes, there's plenty of the soaring flair of the Posies and
The Hollies(even a bit of C,S,N & Y and for those in the
know of great, long lost acoustic rock bands from the 70s,
Pousette-Dart Band) There's a bounty of carefully layered
vocal arrangements, and you can tell these songs were written
on acoustic guitar and taken to the band...
One of my favorite(amongst an album with 14 of them) here
is the hardest rocking song on the CD, "Sweet Night" where
Roebuck amps it up to "11" and still manages to make it sound
like an unforgettable perfect pop song. Mostly, though, my
faves end up making me feel sad about the loss of Chris Bell
in 1977 as Roebuck has a special way with any many-stringed
acoustic guitar he picks up as the gentle melody he's working
up manages to seduce and embrace familiar happy/sad memories
of yesteryear(good example is "Luna"). First Class Music all
the way!"
-Bruce Brodeen, Not Lame Records