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The Bare Naked Statues (Saint Louis University)
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Customer Reviews
Definitely worth it!
I don't know what Susan is talking about. This is an awesome a cappella CD! She must be a troll. LOLZ! Anyway, it's great from beginning to end. There's not one weak soloist throughout and the arrangements are creative and fun to listen to! It's especially cool to hear girls singing on "War On Sound". Recently, the album was nominated for two CARA Awards (Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards) for Best Male Collegiate Solo on "Cowboys" and for Best Hip-Hop/R&B Song for "Low Remix". That's a worldwide award! So overall, definitely worth the $10 for the whole CD! Every song will leave you asking for more, which makes repeat listenability inevitable. So don't just take it from me, listen to the clips yourself! Make the decision, buy the CD, and enjoy!
Exceptional A Cappella
I confess up front, I have a "special thanks to" credit on the liner notes. That said, I was completely NOT prepared to be totally blown away by this CD. BNS has outdone themselves on this, their latest effort. The lush production quality of "Starlight" provides listeners with a vocal tapestry, only to be outdone by the intense layering of "Low Remix". And the "hidden track"--included on the iTunes version--of Short Skirt Long Jacket again proves the song's worth to all the "ballsy" women of the world with an intensely arranged version of the homage to tough businesswomen everywhere.
CASA & RARB, have you heard Fred Jones, Pt 2 performed by BNS? You better before you decide on ANY awards this year. The arrangement is heartbreaking in its purity and mesmerizing flow.
BNS, this is incredible. THANK YOU for letting me help you get this to the masses. You guys are amazing!
Stellar work, BNS!
Susan must not listen to very much acappella - I can't imagine anyone familiar with the sound and feel would every claim that this CD was anything less than awesome! And the acappella community seems to agree - as Micah mentioned below, "All Expenses Paid" was nominated for two separate CARA awards for Best Male Collegiate Solo on "Cowboys" (as performed by Nic Summary, who was a finalist in St. Louis for the hit TV show The Voice!) and for Best Hip-Hop/R&B Song on "Low Remix". Even other acappella singers and fans agree - BNS was nominated for THREE ACAs (Acappella Community Awards), where groups are nominated by their own collegiate and professional peers. This is a true test of talent - when your own competitors think you're great, you know you're doing well! "Save Kryptonite" was nominated for Favorite Mash-Up, Mitchell Johnson was nominated for Best Rap Performance for his work on "Low Remix", and BNS was even nominated for Favorite Male Collegiate Group against such acappella power-houses as the Tuft's Beelzebubs and the Yale Duke's Men. This is the first time BNS has been nominated for any of these awards, and to be nominated for so many at once is just incredible!
The CD is truly great. BNS spent years putting it together - hundreds of hours in the record studio, and then hundreds of hours listening and tweaking the sounds to get everything just right. As a friend of the group, I saw the hard work going into it - and it's truly paid off! I keep the CD in my car so I can listen to it whenever I feel like it.
I'm glad that Susan's view seems to be an outlier - it looks like everyone else has given this album 5 stars, and I'm jumping right on that bandwagon!
Top Albums and Songs By The Bare Naked Statues (Saint Louis University)
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Low Remix | All Expenses Paid | 3:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitI Write Sins Not Tragedies | All Expenses Paid | 3:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Short Skirt Long Jacket | All Expenses Paid | 3:35 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Save Kryptonite | All Expenses Paid | 3:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Starlight | All Expenses Paid | 3:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cowboys | All Expenses Paid | 5:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Suspension | All Expenses Paid | 3:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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When Your Mind's Made Up | All Expenses Paid | 4:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFred Jones, Pt. 2 | All Expenses Paid | 3:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Comfortable | All Expenses Paid | 5:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
