― Dan Perry, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave225, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
That's right, there's something we violently disagree over. What is it you don't like about "Left To My Own Devices" again?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The strings are tacky without having a point (a minor issue) and the verses and the chorus don't go together (a much more major issue). You've got this excellent minor groove set up in the verses and, just as it gets to the climax, it transforms into an insipid major-key singalong. It's hate-inducing. Add to this the deeply- inferior "I Want A Dog" remix, the unilaterally painful "Always On My Mind" (although the "In My House" segue is brilliant), the utterly loathsome "Domino Dancing" (whose only redeeming feature is that it's the A-side to "Don Juan"), and the most limpid version of "It's Alright" ever (see the "How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously" single for a much better version) and already more than half the album is sub-par.
― Vinnie, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Too many notes, Mozart!
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
RIP thread
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Friday, 31 July 2015 10:56 (eight years ago) link
I think (?) there have been a lot of good melodies written throughout the years, especially for hymns/musical settings of psalms/etc, so I would have to say that the person who has written the greatest quantity of good music is: god
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Friday, 31 July 2015 11:00 (eight years ago) link