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1 out of 10
I must have some sort of synaesthesia, because whenever I hear music like Jack Johnson's all I see is endless fields of beige. So laid-back as to be almost comatose, Johnson cannot even be troubled with ending lines - many here simply run into one another in a manner presumably affecting 'urban poetry' but really sound indecipherably annoying. He appears to be singing an anti-war song here but so laid-back is he that the effect of the song - outside of sending one into a brainwashed stupor - depends entirely on the listener's point of view. You could take lines such as 'who needs to see what we've done / who needs please when we've got guns' as being uber-cool ironic, or (Given that he is a money-making machine at present) you could just as easily take it as something a president could listen to in the bath after a spot of 'warfighting'. Jackie-boy and his shareholders win either way, of course. The rest of us must stick forks in our legs to wake up and rush to listen to something genuinely interesting.
The album version included here gets you a little harmonica intro and a turgid (But mercifully brief) guitar outro. Whoosh.
Listen: www.myspace.com/jackjohnson
Tracklist:
1. Sleep Through The Static (Radio)
2. Sleep Through The Static (Album)
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