| Category | Rating |
|---|---|
| Track Structure | 10 |
| Interest | 10 |
| Melody | 10 |
| Performance | 10 |
| Lyrics | 9 |
| Enjoyment | 9 |
| Recording Quality | 9 |
| Commercial Appeal | 8 |
| Overall | 9.4 |
2Dawns1Day By Dawn Sinclair featuring Martin Gallagher.
What was it about The Beatles?
Why do songs that are merely influenced by them still sound so powerful, so emotive?
I have no idea. You must have an opinion of sorts, assuming you even like the band, that is.
This is definitely one of those powerfully emotive songs, with a strong sense of that classic sound running deep within.
Right from the first few moments with that Harrison-like guitar, I'm taken away on a journey into a masterclass of Beatles-alike quirks and styles. A magical mystery tour, even. I think 'What a lovely introduction to a song' and I settle deeper into my chair. Something strange happens then, I hear an unfamiliar voice - at first it doesn't sound right - where's the Liverpudlian twang?!?
Panic sets in, then the truth slowly dawns on me - 'It's not the Beatles, you fool!" - and I relax once more.
Settled down with the song now, I let it wash over me a few times - so by now, it's as comfortable as an old, warm, friendly jacket. Lovely.
What an excellent sound. This song wasn't produced, I think it grew from a little seed, a seed that was given warmth and love, a seed which quickly sprouted, flinging a multitude of tendrils and stalks and vines, each one adorned with it's own bunch of brightly coloured flowers, a solid, healthy plant that would be the pride of any gardener that grew it...
Enough of the dodgy metaphors. Sorry.
The music contained in this song is first rate, it sounds like it was played very easily, but has an overriding undercurrent (!) of maturity. This maturity slowly shined brighter over time, as I grew more accustomed to the to-ings and fro-ings of the musical structure itself. From the overall feel of this song, I think I can safely say that everyone who has worked on this track knows what they're doing. It's all a bit special, really.
To read the lyrics, which work quite well, at times it's as though I'm reading a poem, rather than lyrics, the commencement of the day, the gilded waves, being filled with bliss... It feels like I've read these words before somewhere, they have a ring of familiarity, but they are definitely original, all of these are facts which can only add to the commercial appeal.
Very well written, expertly performed, beautifully sung (kudos to Martin) and awesomely produced. Even though the Beatles styles and influences are everywhere in this song, it still manages easily, to my ears at least, to sound fresh and new.
Saying that though - music like this is in it's own niche, in a way - people who buy music, especially those in the burgeoning "young persons" market are listening to and buying more different, contemporary, electronically produced and experimental material than the kind of music that inhabited the popular music charts of the sixties. Over the past few years, classic songwriting has slowly been confined to the odd one-off hit from a damn good artist (who usually dissapears without a trace soon after) and the usual bunch of hoary old classic artists regularly churning out their wares. Don't even mention Coldplay or Keane to me. You might as well be talking about Westlife and Take That.
For people of a certain age, stations like Radio 2, are going from strength to strength (some of the biggest audiences of any station in the UK and increasing steadily). You can also add to that the combination of uninspiring and expensive bricks and mortar record stores and the slowly growing acceptance of things like iTunes by the kind of people we could class as the older generation will quite quickly make it's mark on the popular charts of the closing half of this decade (that's an opinion for sure, right there).
I'm almost starting an argument with myself and this is only meant to to be a review of a song. Still, it's typed out now and it stays, even at the risk of sounding either; A) Mad, b) Contradictory or C) Both.
On the whole though, what more could a Beatles / Music fan want from a tune?
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