Search - Warn Defever :: I Want You to Live 100 Years

Standard Defever quirkiness, which few will get

Christopher Culver | 10/26/2000

(2 out of 5 stars)

"First, let me say that the two star review is for the album's lack of appeal to many people, not due to its musical quality.I WANT YOU TO LIVE A HUNDRED YEARS is Warren Defever's "first" solo album, that is if you ignore the 15 years of his essentially one-man songwriting team His Name is Alive. Recorded in a single day in November of 1998, most of the tracks were recorded on an old wire-loop recorder out of the first half of the century, making them sound truly....well, "good" definitely isn't the adjective. The later tracks are recorded with more modern equipment, although they are essentially two-chord musings.Listening to this album, a person familiar with Warren's idiosyncracies would guess the album was something of a joke. Not meant to sell a billion copies, not meant to change the face of music, 100 YEARS was recorded because Warren felt like it.And whether or not you should buy it depends on what you think of Warren's quirkiness."