Short Hand / Good Enough
| Album: | Good Enough | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Short Hand | Added: | Oct 2006 | |
| Label: | Collectible Escalators | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2007-01-21 | Pull Date: | 2007-03-25 |
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| Week Ending: | Feb 4 | Jan 28 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 03, 2012: | A Family Affair
Good Enough |
4. | Jan 25, 2007: | Fiction Romance
Smuggled Love |
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| 2. | Jan 29, 2007: | Speak Me How to Teach
Everybody Knows |
5. | Jan 22, 2007: | Speak Me How to Teach
Placing A Bet |
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| 3. | Jan 27, 2007: | Biff Bang Pow
Good Enough |
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Album Review
Rebecca
Reviewed 2007-01-22
Reviewed 2007-01-22
Short Hand- Good Enough
Reviewed by Rebecca, rebecca.sacks@gmail.com 1/17/07
Folk/blues guitar with raspy male vocals reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". This album ranges from mellow home-after-a-night-of-heavy-drinking blues to great folk pop tunes that almost (but not quite) make you want to get up and dance.
Recommended Tracks: 1, 5, 6, 10
FCC: Indecent track 7
***1. Driving bass line with a simple repetitive guitar melody. Lyrics are the perfect indie-folk anthem. "The life you lead is so much better, than the life you don't." Perhaps a bit cliched. 5 sec silence at end. (4:00)
2.Slow acoustic piece. Highlight is the intermittent harmonica part that works it's way in mostly in the chorus. Great character profile of a woman now old. Chair creaking sound at the end. 7 sec silence at end. (3:04)
3.Cute acoustic pop tune including the overdone "ba ba ba" chorus. The last line is repeated ad nauseum. (2:56)
4. 9 sec static at start. Relaxed, slow moving track that sounds a lot like Elliott Smith. Great echoey electric guitar melody over folky acoustic rhythm guitar. 8 sec silence at end. (3:41)
***5. 5 sec silence at start. Medium-tempoed blues ballad with a great driving bass line. Great falsetto in the second verse. 5 sec silence at end.(3:44)
***6. 7 Sec static at beginning(maybe intentional?). Slow acoustic guitar and fragile vocals. Like coming home after drinking yourself silly over a heartbreak and realizing that you still have to go to bed alone. (3:46)
7. 3 sec static at beginning. Stripped bare. Walking bass line, simple percussion and lyrics. Adds in piano after first verse and a somewhat long guitar solo after second. (FCC indecent for 2 shits @ 1:48 and 1:55)4 sec silence at end. (3:23)
8. Great fun love song. Syncopated bass line, medium tempo. Sing-a-longable chorus. 3 sec silence at end(3:34)
9.Acoustic slow folk pop ballad. Annoyingly emo. I can't tell if he's trying to be ironic, but it comes off as whiney. (3:43)
***10.Mid-tempoed acoustic folk tune with a slight twang. A great goodbye track. (4:21)
Reviewed by Rebecca, rebecca.sacks@gmail.com 1/17/07
Folk/blues guitar with raspy male vocals reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". This album ranges from mellow home-after-a-night-of-heavy-drinking blues to great folk pop tunes that almost (but not quite) make you want to get up and dance.
Recommended Tracks: 1, 5, 6, 10
FCC: Indecent track 7
***1. Driving bass line with a simple repetitive guitar melody. Lyrics are the perfect indie-folk anthem. "The life you lead is so much better, than the life you don't." Perhaps a bit cliched. 5 sec silence at end. (4:00)
2.Slow acoustic piece. Highlight is the intermittent harmonica part that works it's way in mostly in the chorus. Great character profile of a woman now old. Chair creaking sound at the end. 7 sec silence at end. (3:04)
3.Cute acoustic pop tune including the overdone "ba ba ba" chorus. The last line is repeated ad nauseum. (2:56)
4. 9 sec static at start. Relaxed, slow moving track that sounds a lot like Elliott Smith. Great echoey electric guitar melody over folky acoustic rhythm guitar. 8 sec silence at end. (3:41)
***5. 5 sec silence at start. Medium-tempoed blues ballad with a great driving bass line. Great falsetto in the second verse. 5 sec silence at end.(3:44)
***6. 7 Sec static at beginning(maybe intentional?). Slow acoustic guitar and fragile vocals. Like coming home after drinking yourself silly over a heartbreak and realizing that you still have to go to bed alone. (3:46)
7. 3 sec static at beginning. Stripped bare. Walking bass line, simple percussion and lyrics. Adds in piano after first verse and a somewhat long guitar solo after second. (FCC indecent for 2 shits @ 1:48 and 1:55)4 sec silence at end. (3:23)
8. Great fun love song. Syncopated bass line, medium tempo. Sing-a-longable chorus. 3 sec silence at end(3:34)
9.Acoustic slow folk pop ballad. Annoyingly emo. I can't tell if he's trying to be ironic, but it comes off as whiney. (3:43)
***10.Mid-tempoed acoustic folk tune with a slight twang. A great goodbye track. (4:21)
Track Listing
| 1. | Good Enough | 6. | Placing A Bet | |||
| 2. | The Best Of The Swing Years | 7. | Saying Goodbye | |||
| 3. | Super Plush Hotel | 8. | Sit Right Down | |||
| 4. | Number One | 9. | Smuggled Love | |||
| 5. | A Two-Part Word | 10. | Everybody Knows |