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CD with 13 Songs (click title for lyrics)
Askin' You Out (stream) - (download sample) - (dial-up sample)
Her City's Got A Train (stream) - (download sample) - (dial-up sample)
Smoke & Perfume (stream) - (download sample) - (dial-up sample)
Beauty Secrets (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
Kitsch Lorraine (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
Happy Chocolate (Duet) (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
Possible Jane Situation (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
Candy Box - Him (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
The Swear Off Song (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
Candy Box - Her (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
Happening (Parting Advice) (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
Love Stained Eyes (stream) - (download sample) (dial-up sample)
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Review June '05 "Comes With A Smile" Magazine UK:
As with the very best of their craft, the most interesting pop musicians are capable of assimilating their influences rather than slavishly imitating them, discernibly imprinting their own stamp on their material. Too few are genuinely capable of that, Jensen Bell though assuredly makes the grade with ‘Modern Dating Tips’, an album that I suspect will be in strong contention in many end of year lists. Powerful, melodic, lyrically astute, cleverly arranged and well produced; the album pushes all the right buttons for pop aficionados.
Bell incorporates his influences with guile, invention and occasionally even a little mischievousness, from The Left Banke on Askin’ You Out which references their Pretty Ballerina - once covered incidentally by the aforementioned Jason Falkner, who’s also never quite got the breaks his talent deserved – to Badfinger, Bell’s Up & Out uncannily reminiscent of Pete Ham’s ill-fated pop classicists at their best. Bell also has a little fun with his listeners, almost lifting Rainbow’s Since You’ve Been Gone riff wholesale for the introduction to Beauty Secrets. Elsewhere, further demonstrating his diversity and melodic talents, Bell reels off the life-affirmingly buoyant Her City’s Got A Train, so joyous even the most misanthropic couldn’t fail to be moved to smile and leap around uncontrollably, duets with The Muffs’ Kim Shattuck on the delicious bubblegum punk of Happy Chocolate before closing the album with the more complex orchestrated chamber pop of Love Stained Eyes.
‘Modern Dating Tips’ is a splendid album that’s been well worth the wait and I suspect that there’s plenty more where this came from too. Here’s a modern purchasing tip for you – buy this record!
credits
Musicians
Jensen Bell - Lead Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synthesized Instruments, Organ, Percussion, String Charts and Conducting
Christian J. Nakata - Drums, Percussion and Backing Vocals
Abby Travis - Bass
Steve Refling - Bass, Guitar, Percussion and Backing Vocals
Jim Laspesa - Drums, Nashville Guitar, Percussion and Backing Vocals
Kim Shattuck - Duet Vocals
Scott Gordon - Percussion
Morley Bartnoff - Organ and Piano
Robbie Rist - Bass and Backing Vocals
Jennifer Hale - Laughter and Speech
The Super String Theorists / / Carrie - Violin / David- Violin / Darren - Viola / Peggy - Cello
Arrangements (decisions about instruments, voices and sounds and the when and where their parts were played)
Jensen Bell
Steve Refling
Jim Laspesa
Scott Gordon
Richard Barron
Robbie Rist
Production (decisions about money, time, logistics and final decisions about sound and sequence)
Chris Brougham, Jensen Bell & Steve Refling
Scott Gordon for "Askin' You Out"
Engineering (decisions about tone, track management on tape and computer, microphones, signal flow & final mixing)
Steve Refling
Scott Gordon
Mastering ( decisions about final EQ and compression so that the parts work together as a whole)
Jeff Peters (analog) with thanks to Richard Barron
Steve Refling (digital)
Package Design - Colombene Jenner
Thank you to The Hurricanes, The Riding Rails, The Rails, Peg & Pluto, Junkyard Love and The Bell Starlings.
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