Let My Burden Be

Golden Shoulders | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Doppler
• ASIN: B00006L3PH
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,342 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gets better with each listen, October 23, 2002

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Noah D. Masterson (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let My Burden Be (Audio CD)

Few people realize how hard it is to write good pop songs. If you assembled the best guitar player, vocalist, drummer, and bass player in the world, threw them in a room together and asked them to start a pop band, their music would be [lousy]. Just look at Yes, or Rush. (Okay, not even Rush fans consider Geddy Lee the world's best vocalist.)

The point is, anyone can learn to play guitar. A few lessons, some hours spent [practic]ing in the basement, and you're there. You're a guitar player. You're good enough.

But songwriting is a craft that requires instinct, knowledge, and, if you're any good, restraint -- you have to know when three chords is enough. Adam Kline excels at this. He's one of the very best. His old band, the Gears, played lean pop songs that drew mostly from early Beatles (but with a better sense of humor). They rocked.

Golden Shoulders sound enough like the Gears to please old fans, but Adam's songwriting has evolved seven-fold. (I counted.) I hate trying to describe individual songs, so all I will say is that Adam and friends have made an album that sounds timeless but not derivative. Each song is different from the last while remaining true to Golden Shoulders' distinct esthetic. I hope "Let My Burden Be" becomes a classic. The pop world needs it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth checking out, August 12, 2004

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Jeff Spicoli "Aloha Mr. Hand" (Davis, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let My Burden Be (Audio CD)

Well I don't write reviews very often but this album is well deserving. These guys are actually fairly local to me and heard about them after they played on my college radio station (KDVS Davis CA, www.kdvs.org Check it out they rock).
After hearing them I really think they deserve to be heard by much more than a local audience and was very pleased to see a review from someone in NY.
The album is kinda pop-ish, but don't be fooled into thinking it isn't varied and deep. It reminds me of Pavements Crooked Rain album which some people slam for being too poppy, but I still love grooving to when I'm in the mood for something upbeat.
Anyone looking for something new should definitely check them out. Some of my other favorite bands just for reference Modest Mouse, Grandaddy, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, Elliot Smith, Beau Kinstler, Pavement, Jets to Brazil, Wilco, They Might Be Giants etc.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two great adjectives: Timeless & Brilliant, August 22, 2004

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Mr. Maybe (Information Highway, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let My Burden Be (Audio CD)

I was shocked and enthralled after a listening or two of this fine album. I threw it in my CD changer in my car and it has not left since (working on two years). The tunes are addictive, and the song writing is honestly nothing short of brilliant. Adam Kline is the great, unknown genius who's instincts in terms of lyrics and harmony are unmmatched in today's flooded market of aspiring musicians. Golden Shoulders stand above much of what's out there today, and they do so modestly and with patience. It would be a travesty for the curious to miss this gem. You won't be let down.