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3.0 out of 5 stars
Let's get something new out there!, October 19, 2002
This review is from: Dreamland (Audio CD)
This albums is a middle of the road album, which pains me to say. Most of the songs are from previous albums. There is only three new songs (Dreamland, Too Little Too Late, and Just Love Somebody) out of 12 tracks. Most of the songs are from their last album, "Lemon Tongue". The Lemon Tongue album was a good album but I never intended to purchase this album to just have those same songs. It would be nice to have an album by these guys that resemble the days of Racing After Midnight and Monsters Under The Bed. If you are a true fan, then this is a purchase to have, otherwise hold off and purchase their next full no previously released album.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Something old, something new, May 18, 2010
This review is from: Dreamland (Audio CD)
This is kind of an odd release. It's supposed to be the European version of Honeymoon Suite's independently-released 2001 album
Lemon Tongue, only there are enough changes to make this (almost) a unique album.
Six of the songs from Lemon Tongue appear on Dreamland. They are "What I Know," "So Hard," "Undone," "Lagavulin," "The Way I Do" and "Gone." The songs "Lemon Tongue," "Don't Make Me Want You," "Touch the Sun," "Knew You When" and "Into Me Into You" are missing. The new songs on Dreamland are "Still Lovin' You," "Just Love Somebody," "Dreamland," "Too Little Too Late," "Radiant" and "Even Now."
Musically, Dreamland is more mature and less dynamic than the 80's era HMS material, but the band seems to have aged well. Stylistically this album is very similar to fellow Canadian melodic rockers Harem Scarem. Come to think of it, Harem Scarem pulled the same stunt with different track listings for different releases of the same album.
Dreamland has enough new songs that Honeymoon Suite fans who already own Lemon Tongue still need to pick it up, but probably not enough new songs to truly satisfy. I don't know what they were thinking with this one.
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