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Title: Rampant grade inflation... for bad singing...
Review: I'm looking at the effusive reviews for this Silver Jews record and they just underscore how unreliable Amazon customer reviews are. Five stars for this album? Ridiculous. The lead "singer" (is it D.C. Berman?) has a determinedly bad voice....I kind of admire his fearlessness, singing in public despite such a glaring lack of talent. And a couple of the tunes are not completely unbearable thanks to decent guitar playing, but I think 2 stars for this CD is more than generous.If you like music that's raw and offhanded and on the improvisational side I strongly recommend checking out Akron/Family. Akron/Family are far better musically than Silver Jews but are not completely dissimilar.
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