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It doesn't need to be all smack-fuelled mayhem
No... No I don't suppose so, no - I should probably start a seperate thread about that, though.
In the meantime, while I take your point L, that there's arguably nothing as individually stand-out great as say The Ship Song or The Mercy Seat on the new stuff, I still think it works better as a mood piece than anything he's done in ages. It's a bit, well okay, it is horribly studenty to say this, but it does repay repeated listens, quite possibly with the lyric sheet handy, and ideally late at night with cigs, whisky, and on your own.
Increasingly, I suspect, that's going to be a flaw with this type of record, that you can't just listen to cherry-picked tracks on the I-Pod on the way to or from work ( not that I'm trying to put you in that sort of category for a second, L, ) that you have to sit down with it for a couple of weeks on and off before you really have an idea of what the band was getting at, and who's got the time ?
I mean ( and wandering wildly off-topic here, ) I hardly ever do anything expect go to the pub and watch telly, after hours, but still, I wonder if I'll have time for the whole of Bitches Brew, or Trout Mask Replica, ever again. Admittedly, I can't stand Trout Mask Replica, but... I have said enough |
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