Music Review

''Closer to Free'' (1993)

The Bodeans
Reviewed by Jim Farber | Mar 29, 1996
EW's GRADE
C

Details Lead Performance: The Bodeans; Genre: Soundtracks

TV sitcoms have lousy taste in music. First Friends commissioned that annoying Rembrandts song (''I'll Be There for You''). Now Party of Five chooses ''Closer to Free'', the one cheesy tune the BoDeans ever wrote for its opening song and releases it as a single. The song, from their 1993 LP Go Down Slow, has the chirpy, Beatlesque pleasures of a decent jingle. But a band this good deserves to be known for something better.

Originally posted Mar 29, 1996 Published in issue #320 Mar 29, 1996 Order article reprints

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