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Susan Across the Ocean

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This is one of the best rock albums from the 90's. Walter Salas-Humara is a brilliant song writer. Great production - minmal with a terrific "live" sound, raunchy guitars, great instrumentation. When you get fed up with the overly-dubbed, overproduced drivel that floods the airwaves - put this disk in, turn it up, and bask in it's honesty.....

Every few years I slap a few bucks down and sample another Silos CD, hoping to find a better balance between -- on the plus side -- terrific driving music (as in I'm Over You from The Silos), well-written intelligent ballads and -- on the big minus side -- plodding and overlong blues roots numbers. Alas, Susan Across the Ocean is the same as the others. For every terrific, Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around, Wanna Ride (a noised up Little Honda-like number) and title cut, there are far more than enough songs like All She Wrote, the paranoid Sounds Next Door, and Jonathan Richmond's I'm Straight, which Salas lead man Walter Salas-Humara unfortunately plays straight. Kind of splitting the difference and fairly interesting is Lucinda Williams's Change the Locks, which gets a very bluesy arrangement, but an almost wistful vocal from Salas-Humara.

Susan is hardly a bad CD, but you just keep thinking how much better it could have been. Say this, it is good enough that once again, in a few years, I'll take another Silos plunge.

"Susan Across the Ocean" is the best Silos album. For confirmation, just check out the title track, a solo accoustic ode to lost love sung mournfully by Walter Salas-Humara, the band's long time leader. I defy you not to get a tear in your eye. The rest of the album is quite good as well, particularly "The Sounds Next Door," "Nothing's Gonna Last" and the great cover of Michael Hall's "Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around." The Silos country-tinged rock sound is backed by excellent violin playing. Definately a keeper that deserved a wider audience.

I'm a spanish girl and I don't now how to get the liric about 'SUSAN ACROSS THE OCEAN'.

Somebody can help me? I love this song and I want to know the liric.

My e-mail adress: picusunchu@hotmail.com

Thank you very much.

Su.

walter never ceases to amaze me. he is truly a master craftsman...and as usual, goes unnoticed. no matter how many times i listen to the song 'susan' tears appear. and 'let's go get some drugs'...well, its probably one of the best driving around songs ever created.