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Forums :: America Fan Blog :: New Human Nature album.

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To any one on this blog who is a fan of the rock group America, you have to get this new remix of Dan Peek songs with the band Peace, called Peace Revisited. Finally, someone has done justice to Dan’s legacy and his music. It was his new bandmates, Ken Marvin and Brian Gentry from Peace. They have lovingly remastered and remixed the best songs from their collaboration with Dan and created an album that is both joyful and sad. Joyful because this is Dan Peek writing some of the strongest songs of his career. Sad, because of what was lost. Maybe the saddest part of all is knowing that they came so close to a reunion with the Human Nature album, only to have it jettisoned. And when you listen to that album that was both a commercial and artistic flop, you wonder what could have been, and realize how much was lost. Peek was at the top of his song writing game while Beckley and Bunnell were on cruise control. All we can do now is wonder how good that album could have been had it happened. As a fan, that is our prerogative. So, here goes. Imagine taking the dregs off Human Nature and replacing them with the best Dan Peek songs of the time. How wonderful would that album have been had Beckley and Bunnell let it happen? Just like the Beatles released Let It Be Naked, stripping away the embarrassing overproduction and leaving a stunningly simpler album, imagine creating a Human Nature Realized, stripping from that really uninspiring album its weak sisters and stagnant filler, and imagining how wonderful that album could have been. Gone instantly are the embarrassing songs: Town and Country, Hidden Talent, and Hot Town. There are very very few America songs that are cringe-worthy. Three appeared on Human Nature. The gems, of course, stay: Wednesday Morning, Oolololo, and Wheels Are Turning. Cut is Moment to Moment which is really a Gerry Beckley solo album track. Staying are the strong album cuts like Pages, Overwhelming World Suite, Whispering, and World Alone. Also staying, only because they would certainly have insisted on four songs from each songwriter even though it wasn’t good: From A Moving Train. Dan Peek gets five songs because, frankly, his writing was much stronger at that stage. And, of course, Beckley and Bunnell would have been gracious for his return and insisted he shine, right? (Okay, now that you stopped laughing, please continue.) So, there are 15 songs on Peace Revisited. Eliminate the songs that Dan didn’t write and the ones he co-wrote, not that they weren’t some amazing songs, but because it’s about no outside collaborators. Take the best of the best, get rid of the worst of the worst, keep some of the filler because there’s no other choice, add five Dan Peek songs, and you have yourself an amazing album called Human Nature Realized. Here is the track listing: 1 Wednesday Morning 2 Wheels Are Turning 3 Endless Flight (Peace Revisited version) 4 Right Now (Peace Revisited version) 5 From A Moving Train 6 World Alone 7 Overwhelming World Suite 8 Pages 9 Revolving Door (Peace Revisited version) 10 It’s Alright (Peace Revisited version) 11 Whispering 12 Sharkey’s Song (Peace Revisited version) 13 Oolololo Make yourself a copy of Human Nature Realized. It will be one of the better America albums you will ever hear. A fan can dream.


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