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Bobby Burg's vocals are not good. But not in the way that, say,
William
Hung's are. Hung is just pathetic; Burg is not good in a good
way, as oxymoronic as that sounds.
I discovered The Love of Everything by accident. A blog
posting mentioned something called The Dan Band, which did a
cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart. That led me to a search
of the iTMS for other covers of the
Bonnie
Tyler hit, which I liked enough to include on
my very own iTunes iMix
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And that search led me to this album, which does not actually include
the song (or any song for that matter) called Total Eclipse of the
Heart.
So what of Total Eclipse the album? There's something
interestingly minimalist about it, as if Burg just can't stop himself
from singing. And he sings like he believes in the words, that his
message matters more than his ability to deliver it. In fact, the
more I listen, the better he sounds. That's unlikely to be true of
Mr. Hung.
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