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| Thephoenix |
 Squeeze are a great pop band who've made some lousy career moves, and this may be the lousiest. They're two years into their reunion (and three weeks after a killer show at Bank of America Pavilion), and just when fans would be expecting a full-strength album, they instead release this set of greatest-hits remakes. It was done mainly to attract some quick money from catalogue licensing, so the object is to sound as much like the original recordings as possible.This they do. Particularly on "Another Nail in My Heart" and "Take Me I'm Yours," they uncannily copy every original sound and nuance three decades after the fact. They even switch lead singers on "Tempted" (originally handled by the non-returning Paul Carrack) with no real variation. They pull all this off because Glenn Tilbrook's choirboy voice is untouched by time, and because three of the five original members are present....full text |
| Slantmagazine |
| A greatest hits package posing as a mind game, Spot the Difference does fulfill its basic description, giving Squeeze fans a chance to catch the variations between some old songs and their newly recorded versions. But the real concept here, which seems to suggest at least some semblance of transformation, is only sketchily fulfilled. The renditions are spindly, stripped-down adaptations of the originals, the only main difference being the more-ragged tinge of Chris Difford's voice. Those expecting radical compositional departures and swerves in style, like those found late last year on Tom Waits's great Glitter and Doom Live, may be disappointed. As it stands, the device behind the album feels mostly like a promotional trick, a thin guise for another favorites collection, but it's admittedly a pretty good one, and the faithfulness presented here may be for the best. A chillwave cover of the venerable "Pulling Mussels from a Shell" could be a far worse proposition than the version here, which is barely distinguishable from Argybargy's 1980 original—like most of these songs, only a little rougher around the edges. What Spot the Difference does achieve, like most good collections of this kind, is to remind us why we enjoyed this band in the first place. And in reproducing their songs in this fashion, with a built-in imprecation to analyze closely for amendments, Squeeze forces us to reconsider them. A track like "Tempted," which has languished for years in TV commercials and classic-rock radio limbo, becomes, if not new, at least somewhat fresher upon real study. There are new touches here, like more fleshed-out backing vocals, but the best details to be discovered in this process are not necessarily tweaks, but things that have been there all along. This craftily breaks through the sheen of overexposure that dominates certain hits, while forcing engagement with less familiar ones. The game at the core of Spot the Difference may be mostly meaningless, but it tricks us into a different kind of comprehension, granting a new face to songs that now no longer seem as stale....full text |
| Cultofmac |
| didn’t start out to write an app like NV, I started out with the intention of literally copying what they had created and then improving upon it.” Some of you Notational devotees out there might argue that the original needs no improvement, but wait: Tyler has some good ideas. He’s changed the look of the notes and the search wrapper, because he thinks Notational Velocity is “ugly” (I disagree). But he’s also added support for synching notes with the Simplenote web service and associated iPhone app. Suddenly, Nottingham looks a lot more interesting. For those who haven’t seen Simplenote before, it too was partly inspired by the beauty and simplicity of Notational Velocity. It syncs notes between mobile and desktop in a completely hassle-free manner, and is a much better solution to mobile notes than Apple’s own built-in Notes app, despite its own sync-with-Mail feature. Nottingham (+10 points for the name) might not offer much that Notational doesn’t already; Tyler says he’s added rich text support and a “Date Modified” column, but both of those are already built in to my copy of NV. The web preview is new and can cope with notes written in Markdown, which might come in handy. But it’s that Simplenote feature that’s the story here, and what makes Tyler’s clone a very tempting purchase at just 15 dollars. Over to you, notepad fans. Would you stick with NV, switch to Nottingham, or perhaps use both?...full text |
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