Josh Groban - Josh Groban - Pop Music CD Review

Josh Groban, very talented Pop artist has released him latest CD titled Josh Groban and Wow! It's good.

Josh Groban grabs your attention right from the outset with Alla Luce Del Sole and won't let go until the very last note of the very last song The Prayer, which is another great track by the way.

The CD launches with a great track, Alla Luce Del Sole, that I suspect will be heard on radio stations everywhere, and deservedly so. It really is a very nice track. One of the nicer things about a CD like this is when the talent is this rich even if Pop isn't your favorite style you still can't help but appreciate the greatness of the artist.

I'm of the opinion that Josh Groban is certainly Josh Groban's best work in a few years. A totally enjoyable CD and an outstanding release. What I call must have music. I give it two thumbs up because it's a collection that even the casual Pop fan can appreciate and enjoy.

While this entire CD is outstanding some of my favorites are track 1 - Alla Luce Del Sole, track 5 - To Where You Are, and track 13 - The Prayer

My SmoothLee Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is Track 10 - Un Amore Per Sempre. Great track!

Josh Groban Release Notes:

Josh Groban originally released Josh Groban on Nove 20, 2001 on the 143 Records label.

CD Track List Follows:


1. Alla Luce Del Sole

2. Gira Con Me

3. You're Still You

4. Cinema Paradiso (Se)

5. To Where You Are

6. Alejate

7. Canto Alla Vita - (featuring The Corrs)

8. Let Me Fall - (from "Cirque Du Soleil")

9. Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

10. Track 10 - Un Amore Per Sempre

11. Home To Stay

12. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - (featuring Lili Haydn)

13. Prayer, The - (with Charlotte Church)



Personnel includes: Josh Groban, The Corrs, Charlotte Church (vocals); William Ross (conductor); Ramon Stagnaro, Dean Parks (guitar); Lili Hayden (violin, background vocals); Richard Marx (piano, keyboards); David Foster, Walter Afanasieff (keyboards); Curt Bisquera (drums); Rhys Fulber, Felipe Elgueta (programming); Efrat, Marco Marinangeli (background vocals). Producers include: David Foster, Walter Afanasieff, Toni Renis, Richard Marx, Humberto Gatica.

Beware the Poet Who Grades His Own Work

Oh beware the poet who critiques his own work,

For it maybe good though he might be a jerk

Just because one can put words to rhyme,

Does not make him right all of the time.

Peace is wonderful - oh shouldn't it last,

Indeed, indeed but look at the human past.

He who understands and is one who knows,

Should be judged by his deeds that is what shows.

You must not be moved by words or verse,

Nor by ails of your emptying purse.

He who owns often makes the rules,

So many follow like blithering fools.

Does the wordsmith of many a tongue

Believe what he says or purport more dung

A man on a mission or furious sound,

What might he say next time around.

For if the rolls were changed and reversed,

Would we really know the man by his verse.

If in the next life he came back as a king,

Would he care of the commoner or just of his things.

It is all what you make of it or so they say,

Who is the most noble on Earth today?

Is it the peasant bristled in rage,

Or is it the poet who won't turn the page.

He demands, oh see it from my point of view,

For I must be right this is written for you.

The illiterate masses take in his words with fear,

Yet what is really needed is to show him his mirror.

Beware the poet who woes us with rhyme,

For he knows very little most of the time.

Death to Everyone

I'm pissed off about a few things this morning:

1.) Turns out there's a "band" called Bishop Allen...and what's worse is that I heard one song on some indiemusicblog and it was nails-on-a-chalkboard bad. Now there's no way in hell I can continue to file my music under the Bishop Harmony name. The best thing about this discovery is that it comes only AFTER my wife has registered websites and e-mails under the name...

2.) Speaking of my wife...she plans this Halloween party...we did it last year at the house and I'm going to be real honest here - when people come to my house to visit (even my friends), it is because my wife has invited them either directly or indirectly (asked me to invite them). I would be perfectly fine not even associating with the world outside these four walls, as I'm sure most of you know. Not that I don't like my friends, I love my friends, but I just don't ever think to invite them over unless she brings it up. So she plans this Halloween party. It's hard enough for me when we have two or three guests, let alone an entire fucking house full, but I tolerate it because she enjoys being the hostess...so she creates this cutesy little eVite, which is one of the things I love about her and virtually all of our friends/family have the balls to either sit on the fence about it or decline altogether. I just want to make one thing crystal clear here...the next time she decides to go to the trouble to put something like this together, you best have the decency to at least TRY and appease her or you and I are going to have a problem...

3.) The H.O.A. says we owe a year's worth of dues, yet they never sent us a single bill...as a result, some minimum-wage call-center employee is going to have to feel my wrath this morning (which is not a good morning to feel it)

4.) Did I mention that the recording process is resembling a just swallowed jar of molasses by a fiber-defecient 90-year old?

5.) Did I mention that I love all of you?