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Everyone Says It's on

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If you're thinking [$] is too much to pay for a disc (even by Jason Falkner) think again. Get this record now. Every track is absolutely made of gold. The songs you haven't heard are just as good as anything else he's ever done-In particular "Great Big Yes" and "Down at the Lake". The disc of covers is odd on first listen, but grows on you like mad. I couldn't listen to anything else for a week. Buy it.

YES. You must.

Jason Falkner makes the best music today, the best since Maureen Starkey broke up the Beatles. This set is not a "proper album" but a disc of demos and another disc of covers. So if you don't know how you got to this page, you'd be better served starting with Falkner's two full-lengths, Presents Author Unknown and Can You Still Feel.

If those already did the trick on you, it's time to succumb to the madness and get your hands on EVERY SINGLE THING YOU POSSIBLY CAN THAT THIS MAN HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH. Air, Beck, Susanna Hoffs ... OK, maybe it's not time for that yet. First, you'll want to hear these exercises in engineering: Jason on a four-track.

Disc 1 is a companion to Necessity: The Four-Track Years, which had a similar mix of demos of songs that ended up on albums and unreleased stuff that was far worthier of airplay than whatever they've been putting on the radio since I stopped listening (She's Not the Enemy, Song for Her, The Hard Way, Take Good Care of Me). Here, the unreleased gems are Great Big Yes, Upside Down Frown, Song for Her (again), and Became Anita Captured; more genius is the demo of a song he recorded with the Greys, Friend of Mine.

Disc 2 is a collection of covers of songs by bands you might not have heard of, might not expect, or might not have known recorded THAT song. (How into the Kinks do you have to be to have heard Wicked Anabella? More into them than I, anyway.) It kicks off with the ROCKINGEST Joni Mitchell cover you've ever heard, and maybe it helps if you hear the covers before the originals, but here's one vote for Jason's versions being far superior than the originals by Eno, Tom Waits, and other even less famous artists; if everything Magazine did sounded like Falkners cover of Song From Under the Floorboards, I'd buy it all up tout suite.

Jason, who plays all instruments, is also a superb songwriter and arranger nonpareil who takes you to heights I don't find in other people's work, even when we're talking about the same song (ibid, Joni Mitchell). He loads up his originals and his covers with Falkner moments that keep you going for weeks. It's not fair that he can't get his hands on some of ClearChannel's money, but after listening to his work, you're likely to agree that the masses just don't deserve him. Let 'em achieve world peace first, or cure cancer, or somehow otherwise earn it.

While I love Jason Falkner, the going rate of >$100 for this album is far too pricey for even me. Thankfully another fan who runs the site "Power Pop Criminals". He ripped his copy and made it available on the web. Just do a Google search for the album name and his site, and you'll find it.

A few notes on downloading this:
1. Each disc is compiled into a .RAR archive. You'll need a program like Extract Now or Stuffit Expander to open them.
2. The archives are password protected. The password is "password"
3. There are two files to download. Links to both files are in the title of the article, just above the image of the album cover. Click "Jason Falkner" to get the first, and "Everyone Says It's On" to get the second.

Enjoy!

While I love Jason Falkner, the going rate of >$100 for this album is far too pricey for even me. Thankfully another fan who runs the site "Power Pop Criminals". He ripped his copy and made it available on the web. Just do a Google search for the album name and his site, and you'll find it.

A few notes on downloading this:
1. Each disc is compiled into a .RAR archive. You'll need a program like Extract Now or Stuffit Expander to open them.
2. The archives are password protected. The password is "password"
3. There are two files to download. Links to both files are in the title of the article, just above the image of the album cover. Click "Jason Falkner" to get the first, and "Everyone Says It's On" to get the second.

Enjoy!

It's really not essiental but fans of Jason Falkner will enjoy this import CD of demos (five of which were previously released on his domestic CD The 4 Track Years) and remakes of classic pop/rock & folk songs. The covers vary from earnest, overly faithful to fun reinterpretations of classic songs by Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, Brian Eno and The Byrds. The rest of the material consists of the demos for Falkner's two solo release (Author Unknown and Can You Still Feel?)and b-sides that were released overseas.

Although it's a great set, the price is a bit high despite all the songs. Still, since it's unlikely to be released in the US (due to Falkner's small but devoted following, the state of top 40 & rock music and the bizarre economics ruling the music industry right now.

Complain, then cough it up. This unique set is worth every penny!! If you can listen to Johnsberg, IL without tearing up you are a robot.