Dave Golden
All I Never Wanted
© 2004 Dave Golden (634479000782)
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This record won't cure your sanity. But it will begin the therapy.
tracks
- 1 All I Never Wanted
- 2 The Night Is Young
- 3 Move
- 4 Neighbor Frame One
- 5 Neighbor Frame Two
- 6 Neighbor Frame Three
- 7 Salty & Worn
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Beginning with two anthemic numbers, the album sets an ambitious course full of cross-genre experimentation and lyrical messages. In the opening Americana rocker, "All I Never Wanted," Golden lists all the things that could've been before concluding: "It was all I never wanted/ So what was I supposed to do?/ When all I ever thought of/ Was singing and writing music."
After celebrating his own take-charge attitude towards life, the record implores listeners to do the same with: "The night is young/ And opportunities abound/ On every street/ So think again/ Resignation and excuses/ Serve your ego not your purpose."
The third song takes an introspective turn as "Move" explores issues of spirituality and self-determination. Golden continues this exploration, leaving the realm of pop music and presenting a series of imagist movements for piano and cello. Invoking the precision of Ezra Pound, these brief pieces represent a series of city window frames.
Pulling together the sterility and detante of Philip Glass while preserving the poetry of Schubert, The Neighbor pieces (originally composed for Adam Salky's film, Sometimes the Neighbor) tells, musically, the silhouettes that city neighbors see of each others' lives.
The record ends with "Salty & Worn." This drumless track is perhaps his most ambitious and poignantly suggests that Golden's rock sounds, classical background and poetic sensibilities can come together in all sorts of unexpected ways. As Golden finds beauty in tall that is "salty and worn," a soundscape of organs, old pianos, guitars played in all harmonics and a crumbling broken-amped guitar surges throughout.
This EP is full of promise and thrusts a new musical voice onto the scene. Don't be surprised if the next record he churns out is a masterpiece.
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Who Knew?
author: AnnabelI didn't even know this CD existed! What a surprise to find it here! I love CD Baby
A great collector's item
author: Dan KleinI first saw Dave play an acoustic duet act in NYC and was blown away. Fulbright-Scholar-turned-singer-songwriter Dave Golden was full of warmth and wit and energy. It kinda made me think of the 2000 election, actually. You wished that Gore and other folks that smart could be as sincere, direct and easy to understand as Golden's music. The most apparent smarts in his music are the street ones. Lodged comfortably in between James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Patty Griffin and Leonard Cohen, Golden’s throat and fingers tell tales that are salty, worn and beautiful. He played some world music and jazzy pieces along with roots-rock types in the concert I saw. I'd love to get recordings of those, too. This record's great, though. All I Never Wanted is one of my favorite feel good songs and the songs really grow on you. It's a nice change from the atrociously overproduced soulless stuff that major labels are pushing out there. I highly recommend this record.