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Track Listing
1. I'm Not Afraid
2. Break the Circles
3. Delusions of Grandeur
4. Love Songs
5. Letters in My Head
6. Rain All Day
7. 6,570
8. Bad Reputation
9. Hanging on a Notion
10. Place Called Love, A - (intro)
11. Place Called Love, A
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Ben Folds | | Producer: | Fleming, John | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Fleming & John: Fleming McWilliams, John Mark Painter (vocals, guitar); Stan Rawls (bass); Shawn McWilliams (drums).
Additional personnel: Ben Folds (drums).
The Nashville-based duo of Fleming McWilliams (vocals) and John Mark Painter (everything else) can't seem to make up its mind. Is it an Alanis-style alt-rock act? Are Fleming and John dramatic balladeers? Kitschy retroists? Quirky popsters? Slaves to the rhythm? The answer, of course, is all of the above and more.
The pairing's debut, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, skips blithely from genre to genre, held together only by the musicians' obvious pop smarts and devotion to this kind of variety. Painter's varied and skillful arrangements and production are coupled with McWilliams' somewhat skewed lyrical viewpoint, both keeping the album from sounding too scattershot. DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR has an admirable try-anything-once spirit sadly lacking in the increasingly by the numbers pop scene of the late-'90s. Pop fans may already be familiar with McWilliams and Painter, as they collaborated with Ben Folds on his 1998 project, FEAR OF POP, VOLUME ONE.
Industry Reviews
...Fleming & John explode with a big, grandiose production and a soaring female voice that can fill stadiums with broad, excessive emotions. It's pure, heavy gorgeousness, of a stripe known to fans of Heart and Eurythmics...
Alternative Press (10/01/1995)
...Fleming & John explode with a big, grandiose production and a soaring female voice that can fill stadiums with broad, excessive emotions. It's pure, heavy gorgeousness, of a stripe known to fans of Heart and Eurythmics...
Alternative Press (10/01/1995)
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