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Album Reviews
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e-zine (Belgium), www.ctrlaltcountry.be,
September 2003) - Las Vegas-based singer-songwriter Brian
Jay Cline's fourth album, is a record recalling the best of the late
70's. His roots pop deserves a niche of its own somewhere near the efforts
of Graham Parker, John Hiatt, Joe Jackson, Squeeze and Any Trouble during
the offshoots of the first punk wave. Gorgeous jangly guitars and great
songs, all powered with that strange ability to make one feel good in
an instant. "One Way Street"for instance is not merely a disguished
Motown shuffle, it's also a perfect little pop song. And the album's
opening track "Everything Is Coming Up Roses" is reminiscent
of the best of Graham Parker. While the haunting ditty "Baby's
Got The Blues" even had us thinking about "Blind" of
our all-time favorites The Replacements. Other highlights include "World
Gone Mad", coupling the lightness of the Traveling Willburys to
the dash of Michael Penn, the great "Rock & Roll Heart",
which wouldn't have looked bad at all on the resume of let's say Tom
Petty, or "Radio Days", a thematical relative of John Hiatt's
"Radio Girl", having Cline in turn sounding like a younger
Costello or Graham Parker. Lots of names! Does that have to mean, that
what we're offered by Cline isn't particularly original? No, sir! Not
at all! What it does mean, is that the music of this guy is bringing
back to mind lots of very pleasant musical memories. "Quadraphonic
Deluxe" is the kind of record you don't get to hear that often
any longer. Uncompromising, great roots pop, that's what it is..."
Santa Monica Mirror - is what Marshall Crenshaw might have sounded like as a 1960s staff writer in The Brill Building. This fourth CD by Las Vegas-based Brian Jay Cline has his signature melodies with great hooks and lyrics with snappy lines. Whether he’s wistfully musing about fame in “Rock N Roll Heart” or cranking it up on the hit-the-town rave-up “Ready Steady Go,” Cline’s tracks have the ease of a bottle of beer that slides down a long wooden bar to a happy hour regular who grabs it without spilling a drop. Tony Peyser - Mirror contributing writer Bruce Brodeen Not Lame Records - release and his fourth in four years! Brian Jay Cline is a favorite around Not Lame for many reasons, but primary amongst them every single album is unpretentious blast of pop, rock 'n roll fun that fans of Bill Lloyd, Walter Clevenger or Marshall Crenshaw are so driven towards. This new release is every bit as good, if not better, than anything in his catalog and like those other releases, this one is filled with spiffy, snappy upbeat melodies and a driving sense of pumping rhythm that makes one want to shake some roots-pop booty. Jeremy
Morris Jam Recordings, 2003 - Just in for 2003 this
is BJC's newest release. Fans of Crowded House, Squeeze,and straight
ahead fun power pop will enjoy this album. This is well done pop for
the lost generation. All these songs are extremely radio friendly
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Eric
Sorenson Fufkin.com Online music reviews -
Whoa! Is this artist prolific and talented, or what? This is the fourth
full-length disc in the past three years from Las Vegas-based singer/songwriter
Cline. Quadrophonic Deluxe is just as tuneful as each of the preceding
albums, with the nifty "Rock'n'Roll Heart" showing off chiming
power pop guitar licks. Cline flirts with the jangle'n'twang sound
on many songs, but it's all wrapped with mainstream pop melodies,
lyrics and production. Brian definitely falls into the "one of
the best artists you've never heard of" category. Long may you
run, Sir Brian! 