Not that any of the lyrics have been given dodgy VG treatment!
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I'm not sure why you're so aghast at the majority of comments - 51% think it's freaking awesome and 14% one of his best, which is hardly a negative response. At the end of the day people are free to like and/or dislike what they want to - I love both Lovable and The Loved Ones and prefer Song With Rose to Flutter & Wow, My 3 Sons and Mr Feathers. As ahawkman says you can't make a new EC song have the shock of the new as in a pre-1980 one, but they can still be pretty damn good.Poor Deportee wrote:
Excluding perhaps his first four albums (even that's a stretch), as well as the indestructible Blood and Chocolate, EC generally has not made albums that are utterly consistent in song quality and utterly filled with epic masterpieces (King of America comes closest in the masterpiece department, but it's wildly inconsistent). He's most typically made pop/rock albums that have lots and lots of strong songs on them, along with the occasional weaker track thrown in for whatever reason. (Even King of America has the slightly banal 'Lovable' on it, 'The Loved Ones' on IB is basically a dud; etc.). This record is like that; consistent with, say, Trust (except that it's better sung).
I wondered if he'd stumbled, started saying 'Twe' and then corrected himself and left it in in a warts 'n' all spirit, but no, it clearly is an edit, and as such must be deliberate as it\'s way too obvious and easily avoided to be anything else. Must have been some reason... Sung as a straight '1929' live. Search me.oily slick wrote:naw, it's not a cool gritty stutter. it is clearly "made in twe nineteen twenty-nine". sound even changes. 2 different cuts.
This is ridiculous, but well worth the typing exercise -- a track by track showdown . . . .Otis Westinghouse wrote:Not as good as Trust then?
I'll blame it on arithmetic but i reckon Momofuku wins 7 to 5 - and what happened to Fish and Chip paper and Big sisters clothes????Emotional Toothpaste wrote "So, to answer your question, no its probably not as good as Trust, but its 2 completely different Elvi, isn't it? 25 years or so different?"
Intended as a humorous ref back to what Poor Deportee wrote:Emotional Toothpaste wrote:Otis posed the question to me "not as good as Trust then?" a few posts back, and that led to my track-by-incorrect track listing showdwon. Fun, but pointless exercise, agreed. Not sure why Trust was even brought up.