Songs we can't listen to
- Jackson Doofster
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Some strange comments in here....Lipstick Vogue ?? Surely one of his (and the Attractions) greatest few minutes.
Broken is the only one I can't stand. I don't mind 'She' myself. Not played very much, but I wouldn't turn it off it came on the radio.
Parts of For the Stars I love: Green Song is fantastic.
Painted from Memory has a lot of Cheese (squashy it goes) but I guess that was the point.
Juliet Letters is cool
Elvis is king
oh well. No accounting for taste.
Broken is the only one I can't stand. I don't mind 'She' myself. Not played very much, but I wouldn't turn it off it came on the radio.
Parts of For the Stars I love: Green Song is fantastic.
Painted from Memory has a lot of Cheese (squashy it goes) but I guess that was the point.
Juliet Letters is cool
Elvis is king
oh well. No accounting for taste.
"But they can't hold a candle to the reciprical war crimes which have plagued our policy of foriegn affairs."
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If I have to think about a "solid" Costellian masterpiece, that time cannot swept away, and that has objective substantial features, then "Lipstick Vogue" is probably the one that I would chose (at least from the early period). It has a unbeatable hysterical neurotic franticness developed in a parossistic way in the "only instruments" section.Mr. Average wrote:Lipstick Vogue may very well be my absolute favorite. My least favorite: selections from the Juliet letters.
Songs I can't stand: I loathe Battered Old Bird, maybe Fish'n'Chip Papers, lots from GCW, Broken, various from WIWC & TDM. I think the God Give Me Strenght version on PFM is too slow, boring, depressing, over-arranged, and the vocals are not so good. The quicker piano-guitar live version is far better.
Urgh, Veronica. It reminds me of a Swedish band called G.E.S. In fact most of Spike reminds me of G.E.S. And that's probably why it's the only E.C album I've got that I barely like at all. There are a couple good songs on it, but the ones that are good are usually too long.
Don't care much for She either.
Don't care much for She either.
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- strangerinthehouse
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first of all, I can't stand Plaboy to a Man, most of GCW. I like the demo versions of PTC better than the album. Chewing Gum and Pads,Paws and Claws are forgetable in Spike. I never really liked Moods for Moderns.
Now I can't believe nobody has yet come out in defense of The Juliet Letters, that album is just beautiful. i have to admit that when i got it i didn't quite know what to think of it and it has never been one of my favorites but i was just listening to it a couple days ago and i just found it amazing. I know EC's voice in it can sound coarse at times and even downright annoying but the strings alone are what make this album worth to listen to. Pardon me for a lack of classical music jargon but i just love the crescendos and breakdowns in each song. in fact i think elvis is simply accompanying the brodsky quartet as opposed to the other way around and without him it would have been a great classical album that i never would have purchased.
Now I can't believe nobody has yet come out in defense of The Juliet Letters, that album is just beautiful. i have to admit that when i got it i didn't quite know what to think of it and it has never been one of my favorites but i was just listening to it a couple days ago and i just found it amazing. I know EC's voice in it can sound coarse at times and even downright annoying but the strings alone are what make this album worth to listen to. Pardon me for a lack of classical music jargon but i just love the crescendos and breakdowns in each song. in fact i think elvis is simply accompanying the brodsky quartet as opposed to the other way around and without him it would have been a great classical album that i never would have purchased.
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Oh uh uh uh, yeah, here I am: The Juliet Letters is one of the finest Costello achievement (thanks to the collaboration with the Brodsky Quartet), splendid, elegant, humorous, sensitive - "and those who don't appareciate it aren't able to tell a pudding from a shit!". Oh, did I say too much? Oh my.strangerinthehouse wrote:first of all, I can't stand Plaboy to a Man, most of GCW. I like the demo versions of PTC better than the album. Chewing Gum and Pads,Paws and Claws are forgetable in Spike. I never really liked Moods for Moderns.
Now I can't believe nobody has yet come out in defense of The Juliet Letters, that album is just beautiful. i have to admit that when i got it i didn't quite know what to think of it and it has never been one of my favorites but i was just listening to it a couple days ago and i just found it amazing. I know EC's voice in it can sound coarse at times and even downright annoying but the strings alone are what make this album worth to listen to. Pardon me for a lack of classical music jargon but i just love the crescendos and breakdowns in each song. in fact i think elvis is simply accompanying the brodsky quartet as opposed to the other way around and without him it would have been a great classical album that i never would have purchased.
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- bambooneedle
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