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| From | Richard Brown <rbrown1985@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Mike Viola/Plastic Ono Band |
| Date | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:22:38 -0700 (PDT) |
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I realize I am way late on this, but I have been
listening to "Hang On Mike" by the Candy Butchers
pretty much non-stop for the past 10 days. I had
bought it when it first came out, listened to it once,
and put it away....I was still hoping for something
more in line with "Falling Into Place".
I decided to give it another spin and found that below
the breezy McCartneyesque pop, were lyrics as nakedly
painful as anything on "John Lennon/ Plastic Ono
Band"....in fact, it came to me that this could have
been what a "Paul McCartney/Plastic Ono Band" album
might have sounded like.
I can't think of another album, short of "JL/POB"
where the singer/writer wrote so much about himself,
in the first person and third person. I tend to be in
the camp where music trumps lyrics (meaning that a
well sung "la la la" means as much to me as Dylanesque
stuff), but this is an exception. "Painkillers" makes
the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
Rich B.
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