Search - Various Artists :: Open All Night: On the Road

Well...

Thane Tierney | 09/21/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Both of the previous reviewers suffer from exageration. This is a good collection of music that is slightly moody without being depressing. It does have a darkness to it that lends itself to calmer, reflective moments. Serious music aficionados of smart lyrics already know Thompson, Bloom, Hait, et al. This fine music works together nicely. That said, full price seems like too much to pay for a collection that you should already own 50 percent of on other discs. For the rambling liner notes that are completely dispensible and add nothing to the package I ding it an extra star. Lyrics would have been infinetly preferable. None of the artists is truely obscure and none of the songs is a hard to find version.

I'm curious to see if this pre-made-mix product catches on as a genre. This seems to be the next step beyond collections of 'summer music' or '60's tunes' that have been out for a while. Many of us have culled favorte collections of songs by various artists that are the soundtrack for our lives at one point or another, and this could have been one of mine. Still,I prefer mine to have personally crafted."