{"id":1734,"date":"2012-06-07T18:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-07T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T18:54:39","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Carmen Grey: Gates of Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gray Music Entertainment\/Warner<\/p>\n<p>Finnish band CARMEN GREY has had minor hits and massive hits in their native Finland since their formation in 2006. The band boosts routine, with three members having played together for two decades. The info also talks about a wild, fresh and exciting band with influences ranging from THE BEATLES to DAVID BOWIE, and GUNS\u00b4N\u00b4ROSES to SKID ROW. I wonder how this will turn out\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The title track is oozing DAVID BOWIE like an over-cooked stew. The seventies tinged sound and the attempt at a slow moving sing-along refrain kills off my interest. But the pace rarely quickens. The two hit songs \u201c\u201dHeroes and Losers\u201d and \u201cTwo Wannabes\u201d are surprisingly meek. The archetypal chord progressions and the refrain of \u201cTwo wannabes wasting time\u2026\u201d trigger my imagination to mean. There are whiffs of TOM PETTY, melancholia, chewing gum refrains and an ok ballad with a bit of flow in the refrain. But as a whole this one is on the top of my Best of 2012 list\u2026if I turn it upside down. <\/p>\n<p>Track List<br \/>\nGates of Loneliness<br \/>\nRoses<br \/>\nIt\u00b4s Only Love<br \/>\nLove Story Town<br \/>\nWaiting for the Sun<br \/>\nDemolition Lady<br \/>\nTwo Wannabes<br \/>\nHeroes and Losers<br \/>\nReal Punks (Plastic Smile)<br \/>\nNot Surprised<\/p>\n<p>www.border.se www.carmengray.net  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray Music Entertainment\/Warner Finnish band CARMEN GREY has had minor hits and massive hits in their native Finland since their formation in 2006. The band boosts routine, with three members having played together for two decades. The info also talks about a wild, fresh and exciting band with influences ranging from THE BEATLES to DAVID [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}