I'm really not trying to start trouble here. I mean it.

But you know, I came across this Soundcloud yesterday and I'm feeling a lot of these songs.

https://soundcloud.com/j_wilde/

Of course, these are rough demos and fragments. Sure, some of them tend a bit toward the derivative. But is it me, or does this cat know his way around a lyric and a melody?

I guess the reason I'm asking is because certain posters on this board have spent years and years ridiculing me for having said that songs by this particular artist were quite good and that in fact they were catchier and more articulate than most of the songs on D'******'s last album. The fact that I said that is brought up again and again and again to illustrate the fact that I have poor taste/I hate "real" music/I hate Black Americans(???)/I'm trolling etc.

But yo... am I crazy or are some of these songs pretty good???

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