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Different & The Same
Mark Weigle
Different & The Same
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
 
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All Artists: Mark Weigle
Title: Different & The Same
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Oarfin Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 3/8/2005
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
Style: Singer-Songwriters
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 656863623421
 

CD Reviews

Sometimes you get what you wish for.
Tim Brough | Springfield, PA United States | 03/29/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Sometimes it's frustrating be a music lover who is gay. You're expected to dig the club culture that produces such drab music and makes an icon out of Gwen Stefani and her crappy solo CD. Secretly, in your disc collection, you're listening to everything BUT dance albums, and the entire library of Luka Bloom rests comfortably next to the Blue Oyster Cult. Every so often, you really wish that a certain song was a little less straight and a little more twisted.



Mark Weigle understands this. Although you won't find any B.O.C. covers here, 14 of "Different and The Same's" 15 tracks are from other artists and are given a serious queer bent. Everyone from Trisha Yearwood ("What I Like About You") to Tommy Tutone get twiddles from Weigle's country folk sensibilities. A few of the songs here make perfect sense in this format, like Rosanne Cash's "The Truth About You," which becomes more about the struggle with the closet than the secreting of an affair. Of equal note is Pete Townsend's "And I Moved," which is suddenly transformed into a song about a slow, burning, longing and the encounter that the longing leads up to.



There are also a couple of fun moments here. Retooling the Jackson 5's "ABC" into "AZT" is good for a couple of chuckles. Better still is a radio worthy rip through Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jimmy" (originally Jenny). After all, the number on the men's room wall was more likely written there by a man, no? It's this kind of spin that makes Weigle and "Different and The Same" such a treat. He's also a delight live, and worth catching if he's playing a pride-fest in your town. With any luck, his well honed musical skills will help him get heard in a broader context."