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12 Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking is the major label debut album by the American singer and songwriter Wes Cunningham, released on Warner Brothers in September 1998, a Time Warner Company. (Cunningham self-released an album entitled Mother Sol in 1994.) The album was recorded at Whistler’s Music Studio in Nashville, Tennessee; with Monroe Jones and Chris Parker producing. All songs written and arranged by Wes Cunningham.
Quirky singer/songwriter Wes Cunningham was born in the Philippines and raised in Texas, where he grew up listening to his parents’ Beatles and Beach Boys records. Through college, Cunningham made home recordings of many of his compositions, shopping them to various record companies upon graduation. He eventually secured a contract with Warner Bros. and recorded his debut album, 12 Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking, in 1998. There are two reasons that a song might get stuck in one’s head for several days and drive them nuts. Perhaps it is a well-crafted, hook-laden pop gem that is just too infectious to forget. And maybe it’s just annoyingly offbeat enough to attach itself to listeners’ brains like gum on the bottom of their shoe. Wes Cunningham’s major-label debut, 12 Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking, contains examples of each. «So It Goes» is as catchy a single as anything that’s ever hit college radio. Quirky enough to stand out but accessible enough to whistle along to after the first listen, it blends Latin influences with rap and folk-rock. «Say My Name» stands out as the hard-rocking, sneering album opener, and «Not Enough» is a bouncy, urgent track with dead-on Latin piano and mariachi trumpet work. Just as likely to grab the listener’s attention is the muzak-samba oddity «Car Wreck», which does its best to simulate being trapped in a Mexican elevator with Herb Alpert and Burt Bacharach. [Mark Vanderhoff]
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CD tracklist:
01. Say My Name – 2:56
02. Bad way – 3:01
03. So It Goes – 4:29
04. America The Beautiful – 2:55
05. Magazines – 3:04
06. Win Some, Lose Some – 2:28
07. Letter To McKay (God’s Way) – 4:22
08. Playing With Fire – 3:31
09. Not Enough – 3:15
10. Momentum – 2:25
11. Gone – 2:17
12. Car Wreck – 4:03
Note: Simultaneously released on 12-inch vinyl LP and CD by Warner Brothers.
“Not Enough” (MUSIC VIDEO)
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