MR

Last night I burned a copy of Glen Burtnik's maserpiece 'Welcome To Hollywood' CD for someone who hangs out here,but mostly over on the Journey side of town.

Anyway, I had not listened to Hollywood for a couple of months. I decided to listen to my recording on my way to work this morning before I put it in the mail. Talk about being blown away all over again !!

I TRULY dont think there has EVER been another CD quite like this one.

It starts out with the busy straight ahead rocker 'Superboy'. It then shifts to the modern rock of the title track 'Welcome To Hollywood'. The thought provoking ultimate power ballad 'Another'comes next. From there you hit the MONSTER modern hard rocking song 'Bam' which leads into the punk sound of 'Kiss Your Ass Goodbye'. The rock meets rap 'Heart In Three' comes next. After a brief 'Intermission' you are then treated to the 80's sounds of 'Roses' &'Cry'. Then you are hammered with all out Hip/Hop of 'When The Shit Hits The Fan'. The psychodelic 'Spiritual World', leads into Glens rocking Welcome To Hollywood reprise 'Flash Before Your Eyes'. Glen then takes you to a COMPLETELY stripped down solo song 'All Thats Yet To Come'. This song is PURE EXCELLENCE. Glen wraps up his masterpiece with the bagpipe inspired rock/rap "career summerizing get up off your ass, life is great song" 'The Muse'.

NEVER have I heard a CD that is SOOO DAMN GOOD! It's 100% all over the map and it works to ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!

Hey, Yogi! Has Glen put you on the payroll yet??

Bugsy

bugsymalone wrote:Hey, Yogi! Has Glen put you on the payroll yet??

Bugsy

he needs to get in line....

and Yogi, you've got a big AMEN over here!!!!!!!!! WTH is genius!

Bagpipe inspired rock/rap???That's gotta be a first.
Can you dance to that one?

It's a killer song where he somehow gets all of his album names in it. It works sooooo damn well.

Outside of slow dancing to 'Another', it's probably not much of a dance CD.

It is a very good cd, but kinda looses me after the half way point, before I really get back into it. But it is his best work. When can we expect more?-ERIC

The two songs that kind of lose me are Cry and Roses. These are his 80's sounding songs.

To me both have a Springsteen/ Bon Jovi flavor to them.

I am not too big on either one of those artists so to me those are the ONLY low points of the CD.

Yogi,

I admire your unabashed enthusiasm for this cd. While I don't share it, I do honestly appreciate that for you it exceeds your expectations.

From the other solo projects, is there another that comes close for you?

Tommy's Seven Deadly Zens is damn good. It's one of my top 10 CD's ever.

As for Glen, Palookaville is also a very very good effort. Retrospectable is real good also.

yogi wrote:The two songs that kind of lose me are Cry and Roses. These are his 80's sounding songs.

To me both have a Springsteen/ Bon Jovi flavor to them.

I am not too big on either one of those artists so to me those are the ONLY low points of the CD.

i agree- although i do like Cry. Roses doesn't really do it for me. and i basically agree with everything you said in the other posts too~ LOVE 7DZ! tommy's best work, outside of hallucination. Palookaville is quirky, but in a good way. very strong album as well.