David Baerwald - Triage
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Free Music Review: All-Time BEST Protest Rock Album!
Hit: 5 Stars
David and David's BOOMTOWN was the single best album of the entire 1980's decade. Baerwald's TRIAGE holds a likewise distinction for the 1990's -- BEST album of the entire decade. I gave this album an intensive in-depth review in the 133 page eBook David Baerwald Triage Constitutional Study Module, along with the TRIAGE short film, which was released on DVD in June 2004. To get the full lowdown, take the effort to get that DVD, which is still available, and well worth having. A two DVD affair, it contains several New Folk Underground shows, the complete Baerwald video catalog, and the TRIAGE short film, plus an unreleased track as a Easter Egg.
If anyone is interested in a copy of the TRIAGE STUDY MODULE eBook, just write me via my website THE KENTROVERSY PAPERS, and I will e-mail you a copy. My readers have said that this was well worth reading. David himself also offered generous and positive comments on the eBook, as well.
TRIAGE the album is best understood, once one knows HOW and WHY it was written. David goes into this in his INTRODUCES TRIAGE promotional CD, which I transcribe in the study module itself.
For example, A SECRET SILKEN WORLD becomes an audiobook come alive, with the listener themselves sitting in that limo, riding along on the prowl for trouble in middle Los Angeles. A jazzy song, it is always listenable.
Other standout tracks on TRIAGE are THE POSTMAN, A BITTER TREE, THE WAITER, NOBODY, and A BRAND NEW MORNING.
Baerwald was smart enough to comment on the conspiracy cultural zeitgeist that would reach fever-pitch one year after the albums release, with the new TV show called THE X-FILES. There was very good reason for this, and once one knows WHY THIS WAS, it makes Baerwald's motivation all the more powerful.
Beyond the music, I absolutely adore the Raymond Chandleresque lyrics of David Baerwald. He can paint a scene in twenty words. This is a talent on par with Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac, as well as the aforementioned Raymond Chandler.
While BOOMTOWN is David's BEST work and a masterpiece of truly epic proportions, TRIAGE is his most underrated work, and ironically, David himself is in my opinion, the most underrated working musician in all of Los Angeles.
Do yourself a favor, and pick up a copy of this album.
Your ears and your mind will be forever thankful that you did.
Free Music Review: Now More Than Ever
Hit: 4 Stars
This is an album I bought when it first came out, in 1992, and I played it to death. Baerwald's gleeful cynicism and weary pessimism were perfectly in tune with the "read-my-lips" presidency of George H.W. Bush. The nihilistic lyrics and extravagant production made an interesting dynamic contrast, and I found Baerwald's take on the issues of the day -- AIDS, nuclear armeggedon, homelessness, government corruption and corporate greed -- to be invigorating.
Then January '93 rolled around and Bush was ceremoniously thrown out of office. In the giddy optimism of the era [misplaced, it turned out], Baerwald's relentless negativity sounded completely out of place and I couldn't listen to this album anymore.
Ten years passed. Suddenly I kept hearing new bands that reminded me of "Triage" -- The Books, Aki Peltonen, Clothesline Revival, Robert Een, Johann Johannsson -- eventually the draw became irresistible and I had to buy "Triage" again.
And you know what? It's 1992 all over again. Only worse.
Free Music Review: overrated...
Hit: 1 Stars
Though the album might appeal to people still living in their parents basement, the album seems like the drunken ramblings of the guy who staggers into the local fast food joint screaming about the evils of the political system.
If you want politics mixed with your music, I can recommend the back catalogues of Bruce Cockburn or Jackson Browne (they both have similar left-leaning views that are actually tempered with humanity) but this isn't worth the entry fee. The fact that Baerwald considers Sean Penn a `good friend` should tell any right thinking person *all* that they need to know about paying attention to DB's political pronouncements.
Stick to writing the schmaltzy movie ditties, Dave.
Free Music Review: Thinker's Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
"Triage" is the somber wake-up call to 1990's "Bedtime Stories." Where the first album had its moments of humor and light, "Triage" is a headlong journey into hearts of darkness; sexual degradation, defeated love, Bremerian isolation, government abuse, and blind cultism, to name a few. Stylistically, it varies with its subject matter, from the languid and haunting pace of "Secret Silken World" and "Brand New Morning," to the mechanical chopping of "Got No Shotgun Hydra Head Octopus Blues," to the bitten-off beats of "The Waiter," to the spare notes of "China Lake" and "The Postman." It isn't as easy an album to like as "Bedtime Stories," but it's every bit as good and even more thought-provoking. Springsteen sells more copies, but Baerwald has more to say. Now if only it were possible to actually buy it.Free Music Review: Aged well
Hit: 5 Stars
I dug this CD back up again recently after a few years of collecting dust. It is fantastic! I remembered thinking it was a good CD if a bit dark, but I usually would pick David & David's Boomtown over it. After giving it another go, I see what a lost classic thing is. I isn't an easy listen by any means, but well worth the time. Silken World, Waiter, and China Lake are stand outs.
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