It's Alive Review

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(More customer reviews)Ric Ocasek doesn't like to tour. Todd Rundgren had some bills to pay and he always liked the Car's music. I really don't care what his reasons were for joining Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, as long as it sounded good. I think it bothered me more when Easton played with CCR revisited, but it was the only way that CCR fans could hear their songs live at the time and somehow they sounded good without lead guitarist/singer John Fogerty.
I only have two complaints to make about this CD. First, Kasim Sultan is a good singer, but his voice sounds too pretty on "Drive" and it makes it sound like an Air Supply ditty. Second, they could have covered other Rundgren songs better adapted to the Car's sound like "Forget all About It" or "Couldn't I Just Tell You". The new song, "Not Tonight," is a perfect mesh of the original Cars style and Rungren's music, mainly because it sounds like it could have been released on one of his solo albums too.


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Let the good times roll - again. This ain't your father's automobile, or your older brother's for that matter, but the emergence of The New Cars, comprised of original members of The Cars. Joining Elliot Easton on guitar and Greg Hawkes on keyboards is an all-star group of rockers: Todd Rundgren, fellow Utopia bassist Kasim Sulton, and Prairie Prince, former drummer for The Tubes. Each shares a passion for recreating the groundbreaking music of The Cars, one of the most successful (and influential) bands of the new wave era.

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5th Annual End of the World Tour Review

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(More customer reviews)Christopher Titus is easily the best argument for a person being able to pull themselves out of a rough childhood and making something of himself - and if you don't know why, you're about to learn. Titus has made a career out of laughing at his life and his family: his clinically insane genius mother, his verbally abusive drunk father, and of course his own hijinks . . . and now he's bringing his children into the mix. Not as the target of his wit, but as the catalyst for his new material. It's a world gone mad following 9-11-01 and he's got a brand new daughter to try to protect while trying to hold on to his marriage (a battle he'd sadly lose, though not at the time the CD was recorded) and his sanity.
Titus takes you through his hilarious views on President Bush ("Our President"), the white race's feelings of guilt towards the other races ("Whitey"), his boneheaded mistakes as a parent (the "Incident" tracks), his time touring Iraq with the troops ("Our Troops" through "Sgt. Pepper"), his views on the Catholic church's child abuse problem ("P***phile Crucifixions") and the loss of his his father - and the amazing way his dad wanted to be sent into the next world. Through it all you never get a sense of despair or worry, just a good-natured guy trying to slog through one challenge after another and finding the humor in every situation. Is it better than "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding?" I don't know. It's just as hysterical, only with a new focus.
Bottom line, it's not another one of those comedy albums with a bunch of lame observations about the little oddities of life - it's a witty jab at the big issues in life and the little children who get him through, and it's a gem. Do yourself a favor and give it a listen.

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