Phil Vassar – “Everywhere I Go”

I think the song is simply okay…but I can see it growing on me. More then anything, I am just glad Phil is releasing something that sounds like a Phil Vassar song.

It looks like the “Bobbi with an I” experiment was a failure and it should have been…how could he release something like that?

Hey, I’m a college athlete and a music critic. Does that count?

Plus I wear a jockstrap when I’m writing.

Sorry guys. I’ve a post-graduate degree and have been a musician for 25 years. I don’t play sports or music professionally which is why I do not fancy myself as a critical writer of said areas.

Just call me a critic’s critic. Regardless, this is a good website.

“Plus I wear a jockstrap when I’m writing.”

Talk about your TMI…

There’s an interesting line that might be drawn here between the critical observation that “song x is (or isn’t)…” and the critical recommendation that “song x should (or shouldn’t)…” No songwriting experience or talent is needed for the former, but the question of experience or talent does, in my opinion, begin to surface with the latter. Not saying that that’s the case with this particular review, just saying.

It’s a great song – Phil Vassar is great at getting to a common experience. He doesn’t overpersonalize – even thought it’s probably based on recent events in his life. I think most will connect with the song in some way or another. It seems to me he puts his heart and soul right out there and then lets you take it for what it is – isn’t that what an artist does?

Everywhere I go that I hear this song, I leave or change the station….

I know in the past my opinions have just led to argument here, but I want to point clear something up. There’s not once that I’ve read a Phil Vassar review on The 9513 and had it end on a positive note. Now I’m neutral concerning Vassar, he’s hit and miss for me, but after quite a few negative reviews I really want to know why The 9513 just doesn’t leave him alone and ignore him all together.

I know you guys have better things to review or reveal, I’ve seen it especially this first half of the year, so why waste time on something like this when you really DO have better things you could be doing?

“Good point. That’s certainly not the reason that Pauline Kael was a lousy film critic.”

So there aren’t many things that I would commit to physical violence for, but Pauline Kael’s honor is one of them.

I genuinely enjoy this song. It is simply written & nicely sung. I agree Phil oversings it at points & it would be nice to see this without the shouting. Here’s hoping Phil can get back to the top of the charts, but doubting this song will do it.

I’m a huge Phil fan, but when i first heard this song, I thought it was probably a little generic for his standards. However, after getting bashed for his attempts to try something different, can you blame him for going generic? Anyway, most of the songs that reach the top of the charts ARE generic, and I don’t see any reason this one won’t get there, especially because its co-written with Jeffrey Steele, and all his songs are hits.

But anyway, my point here is that the more i listen to this song, the less generic i think it really is. I hear people call this a sad song, and I don’t think it really is. To me, this is a song about when you get past the heartbreak, the bitterness, and the sadness, and when you look back, all you see is the good stuff. Everywhere you go in life, the littlest, most random things remind you of her, but instead of making you sad, it makes you smile. I really can’t think of any other songs out there that are like that. I’m sure there are, but they’re not coming to me right away.