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koganbotWith Glee and little else hopping into the holiday charts, my bit remains adamantly unchomped, as you may have gathered by the recent lateness of these roundups.
Glee Cast "The Dog Days Are Over": Being battered by continual repetitions, I've come to tolerate Flo's original, which was pulled back into the lists along with the Glee version. Still couldn't tell you what she's going on about. The Glee girls give it a more conventionally poignant reading, keep the basic heavy bump carrump rhythm, pull in second and third voices to achieve Florence's weighty presence. If the original's not available, this is a pretty good substitute, so I'll give it the semi-tick I should have given Flo in the first place. BORDERLINE TICK.
Coldplay "Christmas Lights": Puréed music stuff, with little lumps of folkie rue and bigger clumps of orchestral emotion, the whole mush swelling into tepid uplift. NO TICK.
Glee Cast "Hey, Soul Sister": An alternate group to New Directions, I guess (says this non-owner of a TV). The voices are mediocre, and the part singing, while a welcome diversion from the pedestrian, plebian original, can't turn this into a good song. NO TICK.
Glee Cast "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life": Agron and Overstreet, whom I've never made much note of, are barely adequate, she more than he, and wisely don't attempt the attempted soulfulness of Warnes and Medley. The arrangement compensates by giving glisten and glitter to the chorus, light where the original had clomped heavily. I'm impressed, actually, though I still don't like the song all that much. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Kenny Chesney "Somewhere With You": Soul-jazz chords at the start, Kenny sounding just as comfortable with smoky longing as he normally does at the beach. Thanks for saving the week, Kenny. TICK.
Glee Cast "The Dog Days Are Over": Being battered by continual repetitions, I've come to tolerate Flo's original, which was pulled back into the lists along with the Glee version. Still couldn't tell you what she's going on about. The Glee girls give it a more conventionally poignant reading, keep the basic heavy bump carrump rhythm, pull in second and third voices to achieve Florence's weighty presence. If the original's not available, this is a pretty good substitute, so I'll give it the semi-tick I should have given Flo in the first place. BORDERLINE TICK.
Coldplay "Christmas Lights": Puréed music stuff, with little lumps of folkie rue and bigger clumps of orchestral emotion, the whole mush swelling into tepid uplift. NO TICK.
Glee Cast "Hey, Soul Sister": An alternate group to New Directions, I guess (says this non-owner of a TV). The voices are mediocre, and the part singing, while a welcome diversion from the pedestrian, plebian original, can't turn this into a good song. NO TICK.
Glee Cast "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life": Agron and Overstreet, whom I've never made much note of, are barely adequate, she more than he, and wisely don't attempt the attempted soulfulness of Warnes and Medley. The arrangement compensates by giving glisten and glitter to the chorus, light where the original had clomped heavily. I'm impressed, actually, though I still don't like the song all that much. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Kenny Chesney "Somewhere With You": Soul-jazz chords at the start, Kenny sounding just as comfortable with smoky longing as he normally does at the beach. Thanks for saving the week, Kenny. TICK.
