Add Date: April 28
Artist: Tinted Windows
Album: Tinted Windows
Label: S-Curve
Genre: Rock, pop
Comments: I guess when you have such big names as Taylor Hanson (yes, that Taylor Hanson), Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick), James Iha (ex-Smashing Pumpkins) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne) getting together to form a rock band, the label "supergroup" is applied automatically. But there's absolutely nothing super about Tinted Windows' self-titled debut. While there's also nothing wrong with the music, this brand of bland power pop has been done over and over and over and over again, to the point where I have just one question: Why was this collaboration/record necessary? Surely, it's so that deep thoughts such as these, from "Cha Cha," can be recorded for posterity:
I just want you to feel me
I just want you to hear me
I just want you to heal me
You're my cha cha
You're my cha cha
Cha cha
Ch-ch-ch-ch-cha
I need say no more.
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All I can say is, if Tinted Windows music doesn't set your toe tapping and put you into a good mood, you should probably check your pulse and make sure you're still alive. I have their album and play it during my morning drive to work. The resulting sugar rush lasts most of the day.
Love the album.
Why was this collaboration/record necessary? Well, why is any music necessary? It isn't, really. Music cures no cancer, nor even the Swine flu. It neither feeds the hungry nor shelters the homeless. What music does for this world is help us to tolerate all of the ills that we haven't been able to figure out how to cure. And in my opinion, this album does a better job than most at that.
And it must be said: I'm surprised to find someone who apparently can't differentiate between pure power pop like Tinted Windows and the Disneyfied anthems of Jonas Bros and High School Musical.
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