The voting for selections on the next record “Nice Cuts” is complete. Thanks to everyone who voted. I dunno if it’s right to call it a ‘greatest hits’ record, but that seems to be the common term of art, so for those of you not clued in? It’s a ‘Greatest Hits!’ record. Actually, if it didn’t sound so bloody pretentious, I’d have called it a ‘Retrospective’. But to do that I’d have to hang with the kind of people who refer to movies as ‘the cinema’.
And the winnahs are:
- You Are Loved (Positive) 6:00
- Why Don’t You Come In? (Positive) 4:08
- On My Way Home (Positive) 2:51
- Paul’s Story (Positive) 5:56
- What A Wonderful World (Superpower) 4:44
- Shy (Superpower) 3:39
- Hey Johnny! (Superpower)Â 2:55
- Open Your Eyes (Part II)Â (Compartments)Â 7:30
- Too Far (Balance) 3:39
- Money (Balance) 3:47
- Matters Of The Heart (Balance) 6:25
- Teflon (Home) 3:57
- Suicide In A Hurry (Home) 4:36
- The Best Friend I Ever Had (Home) 5:23
Nice Cuts should be available November 1st 2009 at www.jchmusic.com, Amazon and iTunes; just in time for your Christmas shopping (hint, hint!)
To celebrate, we’re doing a new video called Nice Cuts:An Introduction To JCHMusic. The video will include snippets from each of these songs plus some bits to show off the new album Beautiful Sounds.
A Note On ‘Choice’
One takes a marketing risk letting fans choose. You guys did a great job, but frankly, the ones chosen are not necessarily the ones I would’ve chosen in all cases. So there are one or two selections that I substituted for the ones near the bottom of the voting list. In other words, I replaced the 13th and 14th on the list for two songs that I thought better fleshed out a representation of my catalogue. I did this because the actual ‘winning’ songs were stylistically similar to some already represented (in other words, a couple more ‘angry at your ex-wife numbers.)
