POO: Perverted by Language

Tempo House. Best Fall song ever.

"smile" on the album, but really the answer is the peel sessions v. of "garden," which is possibly my single fave fall jam ever.

eat y'self, fitter

"HOTEL BLOEDEL!!"

Wot, no luv 4 brixxx??

But shit, pretty perfect album, huh?

Peel Session of "Garden" is correct. Gives me chills.

This is the worst of the early Fall albums for me. It's plodding and the songwriting is not of the quality of what they did before or after.

And, you know, they took a major step away from this with The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall.

I conflate PBL with its Peel Session and two concurrent singles in my mind (and on my mp3 player), and then it becomes awesome. But I kind of know what you're saying.

this one is weird to me - sometimes i think it's their most consistently good record, but there's nothing on it that's in the same league as the highs of grotesque or slates (my personal a+#1 stretch). even "garden," i never really got into that one until i heard the peel version. the performances sound a little too mannered, maybe?

Also: really ugly cover - jeez.

I prefer the video version

the appeal of pbl is not about quality songwriting

there are no highs but it is deep

Tempo House. Best Fall song ever.

seconded.

Tim, what you call plodding, some call repetition, and you know what we say about repetition?

we dig it
we dig it
we dig it
we dig it

it is about the mutability of time and moving things with yr mind

tim ellison is making the dutch weep in four languages

at least

I know it's repetition, but the stuff is so dull!

mushy pen.

you should see the manager.

panic all over

I mean, Edward, if you compare it to, say, "You Doo Right," doesn't the songwriting actually, in fact, matter? Because "You Doo Right" is good songwriting.

but possibly the least interesting thing about it

it's like complaining about the faulty plot of joyce's ulysses

"Eat Yourself Fitter"

if you see the holy ghost on the screen, be sure to look for your eraser

and/or cursor

Q: what is a centimeter square
A: tab

these are clues

"but possibly the least interesting thing about it"

No way. It's key to its appeal. What is so "interesting" about "You Doo Right?" That is was long and minimal? Is that really so interesting? It's appeal lies in the beauty of the instrumentation, the melody, the performances, the energy, etc.

GOHOHO9OGOHOHO9OGOHOHO9OHO9OGOHO

snow on Easter Sunday. funny and true.

"it's like complaining about the faulty plot of joyce's ulysses"

Wouldn't know. Never read it. Something tells me I doubt it.

oh yeah, and my first response would be "Hotel Bloedel," but how could I not pick "Tempo House,"or "Smile," or "Neighbourhood of Infinity,"or my first love, "I Feel Voxish"? It is like the classicmost album. Maybe not even their singular best record (only because some stiff competitioners) but a break w/ what came before & after is I think the reason why it is so revered among the faithful. also because every one's a winner. & see the video.

Can you include some of the bonus tracks from reissues? If so, I choose 'Wings.' Probably my favorite Fall track.

If not, it's Tempo House.

Wot's a computer?

It just doesn't feel right anymore when threads like these aren't set up as polls. But maybe Amanda just didn't know she could do it that way.

That album has amzingly high ratio of great MES quips.

I dunno, is MES singing "Solitaire" for the BEF a bonus track?
He could've been bigger than Tina Turner.

But who wants to be with them anyway?

I think the Fall are anti-poll. Smacks of politicos & non-smokers, no? ok pick the fall quote that backs me up on the Fall being anti-polling.

No quote necessary - MES was surely call the poll idea rubbish.

It was not an unreasonable offer.

It's appeal lies in the beauty of the instrumentation, the melody, the performances, the energy, etc.

we must have diff definitions of songwriting; only 1 of the 4 aspects you mention (melody) is related to mine. great songwriting is composing something someone can recreate rather easily. almost any musician can bang out a decent version of "you are my sunshine". great performances involve something unrecreatable and "you doo right" fits that category.

pbl is in neither category and is in fact beyond classification but once again I have confused myself with someone who has something to say.

y'know I used to have a thing about link wray

the arrangements are part of the songwriting, ergo "the instrumentation" is certainly part of the composition of "You Doo Right." as far as the performance goes, you usually write it the way you perform it, so malcolm mooney's performance on "You Doo Right" (at least on the parts where he's not improvising - same as with the instrumentalists) was composed. same could be said about the energy of the composition itself - that was an element in the composition.

Is energy not a part of the composition of "Blitzkrieg Bop?"

you might say energy is part of the composition of "sweet jane" until you hear the cowboy junkies' version of it

put your claim in tempo house
go on and have a grouse

some songs are written so well they're hard to fuck up. which is why everybody plays them.

some songs are performed so well that nobody tries to play them.

5:40 pm.

Almost time for the giant moths.

anarchy, he said

he smiled

Edward, you're engaging in needless semantics. The point is that the things I mention were indeed "composed," i.e., conceived at the same time as the notes themselves.

"Don't start bloody improvising"

I leave the needless semantics to MES (he knows the evil of the phone).

did the cowboy junkies compose "sweet jane"?

no xmas for junkies

Well, "Garden" is 9 straight minutes of utter brilliance, so I'm going to have to go with that one. Though I wonder why one version omits the little recorded bit about pressing a button to blow up inconvenient friends.

Do a dance here.

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