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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Liking/Loving |
| Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:05:15 -0500 |
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Well, since everyone else is playing...
At 03:31 AM 1/31/2003 -0500, garymaher@juno.com wrote:
>Matthew Sweet
Love individual songs, really like certain albums, but I find him a trifle
inconsistent, and he has made some really bad production choices over the
years (INSIDE and EARTH being the main offenders). LIKE
>Squeeze
One of my all-time favorites -- incidentally, I think the
nearly-universally-derided COSI FAN TUTTI FRUTTI has some wonderful songs
("No Place Like Home"!), and Laurie Latham's production is so over the top
(as usual for him -- ever listen to his Paul Young albums?) that it becomes
perversely fascinating. LOVE
>XTC
Some albums I prefer over others, but there's never been one I've genuinely
disliked, and I think the string from DRUMS AND WIRES through MUMMER is as
strong as any four-album stretch out there. LOVE
>Owsley
I haven't sold the album yet. LIKE
>Splitsville
I think I preferred the Greenberry Woods too. LIKE
>The Merrymakers
Excellent stuff, especially BUBBLEGUN. LOVE
>Myracle Brah
I've said enough already. STRONGLY DISLIKE
>Teenage Fanclub
Sure they can be uneven, but I even like parts of the contract-breaking THE
KING. LOVE
>Cherry Twister
I've never liked any of their later songs as much as their tunes on that
first Not Lame comp. LIKE
>Aimee Mann
I tend to agree with the "she can be too samey" contingent, but on the
other hand, I *like* what she's samey at, if that makes any sense, and no
one who can write a song like "Ghost World" or "That's Just What You Are"
can be discounted. LOVE
>Sloan
Everything that I love about rock and roll can be found in songs like
"People of the Sky" and "The Good in Everyone." LOVE
>The Vandalias
Eh. NEUTRAL
>The Shazam
They're okay, but I prefer the Move. LIKE
>As for the "universally disliked" class, Pearl Jam is disqualified for
>appearing on the Audities Best of the 90s list. I'm probably wrong, but
>I don't know that anybody here would admit to liking these:
>
>Michael Bolton
>Mariah Carey
>Celine Dion (oh PLEASE let it be her!)
>Whitney Houston
Watching VH1 Classics over the last year or so, I've been reminded that I
actually *did* like Whitney Houston's first album all right back when it
first came out. Listen to a song like "How Will I Know" or "Saving All My
Love For You" and it's clear that she didn't always oversing as horribly as
she started to later, and the songs are perfectly fine adult contemporary
pop. I wouldn't call her a favorite by any means, but that album (which I
owned at the time and probably still have on vinyl) isn't useless.
S
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