Sunday Music: The Best of Buddy Holly
Apr. 8th, 2012 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowAlbum Title: The Best of Buddy Holly, Buddy Holly
Why I Bought It: Blame Don McLean. Or maybe Bradley Denton. Or - just possibly - Edward Bryant. (Brownie points for anyone who can identify why those three might be to blame - or even two of them.)
What I Like (Happy): "Everyday". Perhaps a little overconfident, but he captures the good part of falling in love very nicely. (I also have a cover by McLean, which is... rather more exuberant than this one.) Honorable mention: "Rave On".
What I Like (Goodbye): "It Doesn't Matter Any More". A bit of doth-protest-too-much, perhaps, but what do you want from a teenage boy who's just been dumped?
What I Don't Like (Hubris): "That'll Be the Day". It's a common enough theme; the Beatles did it in "You Like Me Too Much", Mariah Carey in "You Need Me", and there are plenty of other examples. But I just can't see "You leave me? Hah! Never! If we ever break up, I'll leave you" as being particularly appealing to one's beloved.
Overall: This is a short album, only twenty-six minutes in all. It's kind of hard to see, at this late date, just how new his act was, back in the '50s; but the energy certainly shines through. I can appreciate this album, if not entirely enjoy it.
Why I Bought It: Blame Don McLean. Or maybe Bradley Denton. Or - just possibly - Edward Bryant. (Brownie points for anyone who can identify why those three might be to blame - or even two of them.)
What I Like (Happy): "Everyday". Perhaps a little overconfident, but he captures the good part of falling in love very nicely. (I also have a cover by McLean, which is... rather more exuberant than this one.) Honorable mention: "Rave On".
What I Like (Goodbye): "It Doesn't Matter Any More". A bit of doth-protest-too-much, perhaps, but what do you want from a teenage boy who's just been dumped?
What I Don't Like (Hubris): "That'll Be the Day". It's a common enough theme; the Beatles did it in "You Like Me Too Much", Mariah Carey in "You Need Me", and there are plenty of other examples. But I just can't see "You leave me? Hah! Never! If we ever break up, I'll leave you" as being particularly appealing to one's beloved.
Overall: This is a short album, only twenty-six minutes in all. It's kind of hard to see, at this late date, just how new his act was, back in the '50s; but the energy certainly shines through. I can appreciate this album, if not entirely enjoy it.
