Earnie Shavers
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You know what? I'm usually the type to make fun of a song like Glastonbury, but hey, it's pretty great. An absolutely great chord progression, catchy beat, a lot of nice little details. Lyrics definitely need some work, but overall far less embarrassing than crap like Stand Up Comedy. North Star is decent too. Very pretty, but the backing vocals are all out of sorts, and the lyrics are extremely corny. It has potential. Last is Stingray, which is neither here nor there...pretty much just the band jamming. Fun, I would like it live, but listening to it in my own home is pointless.
Sames. Glastonbury is no great song, but sitting in that 7th or 8th spot on an album - pretty solid, if it's produced/mixed right (i.e. not soulless like a 00s rocker.)
North Star is a decent skeleton of a decent work in progress, but one that could so easily go in one direction or the other, perhaps spectacularly so. Depends on how it's tightened up/finished off, and whether they record it as a beautiful song, or a bombastic song.
And yeah, Stingray, that's not a song. There is some history to it, I know, but it still sounds like something they could have just stumbled into there and then as a warm up.
So I'd give Glastonbury a 7 - it will hopefully end up nailing the brief, and you can't ask for more than that.
I'd give North Star a 5 - it's sitting right on the fence. Could boom up, could tumble down.
And Stingray... as a sequence of chords, it's fine. What else is there?