fredkocherpepsi
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It’s definitely a grower (though I loved it on first spin)
yeah its not just theres alone to find the artistic value but there responsibility. i dont know that ive ever been exposed to good art without it being a commodity and have found it work to separate my feelings about the two in order to appreciate the artistic value alone. i dont know ive ever succeeded meaning that i dont know if ive ever encountered experienced or appreciated "art" alone.
Good to see it has made Mojo's top 50 albums of the year - a very respectable 31. I seem to remember certain posters round here saying it would never feature in the end of year polls. How nice to find them proved wrong...
I must say that I am truly embarrassed whenever I look at the title of this thread (my thread btw). As I have been listening more and more to the album, I must say that I truly like it. In fact I can't get the jingle "Art Hounds" out of my head.....I believe that this album requires more than a couple of sittings to really appreciate it. The lyrics are not bad at all and the music has become catchy to me. I will continue to listen in my car to really soak it in and report back later, But so far I am liking what I hear on the 3rd and 4th listen. Stay tuned..........
Sorry, but that seems to be damning with faint praise to me - the mind boggles as to what was amongst the other 30 albums that were deemed superior.
I think it's a fine album. In fact, although I would say it only sports a couple of absolutely great songs ('Istanbul' and 'Kiss Me a Lot' - maybe 'Smiler With Knife' too) I'd say it's probably his best album for me, in the sense that it's the only one he's released that I actually enjoy listening to from start to end. All of his other albums are marred (pardon the pun) by crap songs, and dragged down by too many mediocre ones, albeit redeemed by usually two or three classics.
In this case, I don't think there are any dire songs on the album at all. They're not all classics, but they are mostly really good. Even the ones that struck me as lightweight fluff/self-parody on first listen ('Earth is the Loneliest Planet of All' and 'The Bullfighter Dies') are growers, in fact 'Earth' is actually insanely catchy.