Doug Powell - Four Seasons (2006)

There are 13 songs on this release. 6 of these were songs written for The (New) Cars, who were looking at having Powell join the band before they settled on Todd Rundgren. He wrote these songs for the band and..well, listen below. They *are* The Cars. It`s amazing how Doug captured `the sound`. If The New Cars stay together and work on new material, guess what? They`ll have a hard time doing better than any of these tracks. Really. The scary thing? Doug tossed this babies off as a creative exercise. The next four songs are from his Japanese only EP, Venus DeMilo`s Arms, which only had 500 printed up. Classic Powell. It was a project of songs from 1996 that he was shopping around for labels after being dropped by Mercury the year before. 2 other songs were recorded in 2004 towards a new record that was never finished. The last song, Song #13, was written for Ringo Starr`s 1999 Christmas CD(quite good, btw!) but went unused by Ringo. What was he thinking?!! All in all, it`s joy-filled send-off and one that most pop fans will find great enjoyment from! -Bruce Brodeen, Not Lame