Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static
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Free Music Review: Phenomenal Recording and Content... an Audiophile MUST HAVE!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Sleep Through The Static
First, I am an avid audiophile... audio dealer... and Jack Johnson junkie... and believe his recordigns and lyrics are in a class of their own.
I love this album... like I do his "Brushfire Fairytales" masterpiece!!! This new "Sleep Through the Static" mix was recorded on analog master tape (not digital)... it is by far the best quality recording of his collection. In fact, it is the most analog sounding CD in my entire collection when played on my $50k+ system!!!!
This is definitely a MUST HAVE for all audiophiles... and MUSIC LOVERS worldwide!!!
While a bit slower than some of his previous works... it is phenomenal!!! I simply put it in on repeat for background music... and I found that I couldn't get any work done that day as I kept on going to the sweet spot to listen more closely.
As I am a Jack Johnson junkie... I like ALL tracks... especially tracks 1, 2, and 9 - 14 (especially track 10). I believe that these later tracks 9 - 14 were recorded at Jack's solar powered home studio... and they sound simply amazing!!!
And of course the anti-war title Track 2 "Sleep Through the Static" especially hits home... as it opens ones eyes and mind. Progressives like myself will love this!!!
Jack... I thank you for another superlative album... both lyrically, musically and with regards to the recording quality!!!
Now if I could only get a hold of the master tapes!!!
Brian Kyle
Xtreme Cables
Dana Point, CA
Free Music Review: classic jack
Hit: 5 Stars
It's about time I write a review for one of Jack's albums. Several years ago, before I knew about Jack as a musician, I bought September Sessions on DVD. My wife came home, looked at the DVD case, and said, "No way. Jack Johnson? I went to high school with him." I didn't think it was that unusual for someone from the North Shore to make a surfing movie, so I was only slightly impressed. I don't usually like music by surfers-turned-musicians, but I really liked the music on September Sessions and Thicker Than Water, which I bought a short time later. So I started buying his albums. I was a few years behind everyone else, but I caught up rather quickly. I bought Brushfire Fairytales, loved it, bought everything else, loved it all, including Curious George.
I'm not sure, but it's possible that Sleep Through the Static is my favorite album. All of his albums have a different feel, in my opinion, but they're all Jack. Not only are the lyrics clean (unobjectionable), they're also clever and thoughtful. The melodies are simple and beautiful, sometimes mellow, sometimes lively, always fun to listen to. My five-year-old daughter even sings along in the car. Plus, we moved from Hawaii to a very cold spot on the mainland a couple years ago, and Jack's music helps me remember sunshine, sand, and saltwater.
I doubt this review is very helpful to anyone, but I support Jack, like what he stands for, and love his music. This is an excellent album, every track has something to say.
Mahalo.
Free Music Review: I could listen to this every day, I think people should we might be happier and nicer
Hit: 5 Stars
Jack Johnson wanted to set a good example. He recorded an album with solar power. This is a yea for me, so he stands for something, and puts forth the effort to set an example.
All his general good vibe goodness aside, Jack Johnson's music puts me at peace with myself. I'm a little rocker, little punk, but sometimes you need something else. This album is thought provoking to me as well, I have found several snippets of lyrics I think about a lot. Even in Sleep Through The Static the lines "Who needs Please when we have guns..." gets me to thinking about how to keep the peace and politeness in my own house. The lines in Hope "It will teach you to love what're afraid of." I love that, and I've thought about it in different ways and at different times.
Angel - that whole song is just beautiful anyway, but that his angel makes angels. How true, try smiling at other people, they'll smile back, instead of critically judging someone else in your head while you're waiting in line somewhere, think something good about them and then say it, it spreads.
Jack Johnson's music is pretty family friendly, my son and I like to dance together sometimes before bed, but we don't want anything "too wild". So we slow dance to Jack Johnson, lately its been Angel.
Free Music Review: Woke Me Up
Hit: 5 Stars
First, I must say thank you to Allison, a sweet, lovely girl whom I met recently that suggested I give this album a listen. I even asked "Who is Jack Johnson?" He's definitely an artist by all defintions and one with plenty of soul and passion that can be felt through the rhythm of his songs as well as his ability to set poetry-like phrases to a flow of music-"I could give you promises for keeps. And I would only take them back if they became your own and you give them to me," he says in "What You Thought You Need." Some other standout tracks include the title cut, where Johnson writes with refreshing honesty as he observes the pace of society with a real time questioning of our integrity("We went beyond where we should have gone") and "If I Had Eyes," a sweet sentimental tale featuring a calypso groove and smooth jazz guitar that makes the hook too good not to enjoy. Having already occupied the #1 spot on Billboard's Album Charts for several weeks, Johnson seems to be ascending from his small but loyal following to a wider, mainstream audience, and he deserves it. I would even say a Grammy nod should take place next year because music lovers will feel like modern music has had a sort of awakening. The perfectly mellow, feel good album is just what we needed.Free Music Review: Light Years of Growth
Hit: 5 Stars
This album may not be what most are expecting. It is quite different from his past albums. Instrumentally, this album still carries the melodies and tones that we have come to expect but there are subtle yet welcomed melodic changes such as more straight guitar play where the piano shadows and at times leads the guitar, throw in the bass and solid drums to keep the pace and melody of the music and you can see his growth as a composer.
Lyrically, he has grown in light years. Very very good songwriting as usual. Still with the Jack Johnson style of melody, rhythm and rhyme but subjects of a darker nature presented in melodies that can only be described as counter culture soul. I, like few people have been listening to Jack for quite sometime. It was an honor to have seen him live just playing for some hometown friends just outside of Honolulu back in 2000 when the September Sessions came out. If you listen to his albums successively, you can hear and feel his growth as an artist and as a person.
This album is fantastic, it is soul in every sense of the word in our modern day world. But, it's what I've come to expect from a man who's priorities are with his loved ones and his environment.