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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Jupiter Affect |
| Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:03:51 -0400 |
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At 03:53 PM 9/17/2003 -0500, Michael Bennett wrote:
>Quercio is kind of like Dennis Rodman -- Rodman couldn't do much other than
>rebound, but boy could he rebound; likewise, the psych-pop thing seems to be
>about the only thing he really does well, and he does it so freaking well.
>The last couple Three O'Clock albums were grasping for commercial straws;
>Permanent Green Light was frustrating -- some good songs mixed among some
>ill-advised attempts to rock out and stay competitive.
I think the other key factor is that he really works best when he's the one
in charge: everybody loves Jason Falkner, but his song didn't fit on
VERMILION at all, and the other guy's stuff in PGL were uniformly terrible,
so much so that not even "We Could Just Die" -- which could well be the
best song Michael Quercio has ever done -- is enough to save the EP. And
as much as I love the one of his songs that Game Theory recorded (the
ballad "Water" from their 1989 Christmas tape), I can't imagine him working
longterm in a band where he'd essentially be a sideman.
S
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