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| From | "Aaron Milenski" <amilenski@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Jilted John |
| Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:40:39 -0400 |
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>Jilted John -- Jilted John
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>*This song kills me every time I hear it. One of the sillier songs
>about getting "dumped" that I've ever heard. Has anyone heard more by
>Jilted John? Despite loving this song, something tells me that maybe
>more Jilted John would cause tooth decay or some other malady.
>Please, let me know if that's not the case. In other words, was he a
>one song wonder?
I think the album is totally wonderful, but in a completely
dorky 7th grade soap opera way. I suspect other people
won't enjoy it as much as me, but I love it. There are
a bunch of really catchy songs on it, and it's actually kind
of touching in its own weird way.
The song "Jilted John" is remade for the LP and is a bit less
punky---the album sounds more like Herman's Hermits than
like a punk band.
>Snip
>Willie Alexander -- Mass. Ave.
>Anyway, I LOVED "Meanwhile…Back in the States" at
>the time and I'm quite sure I still would. I didn't have the context
>of the band's more punk ethic at the time I bought it and so it
>surprised me that this album was seen as a disappointment.
The album really was massively homogenized. Loco was RAUNCHY
in concert, and while I thikn he's a bit of a hack and that he's
awfully repetitive musically, he did have enough cool songs that
it's a real disappointment that the most extreme Willie never made
it to vinyl. The CD you need is LOCO LIVE 1976, which comes
the closest to capturing what his show really was about in those
days. It's crude, loud and completely obscene. Even the
original indie singles of Mass Ave/Kerouac and Hit 'Er Wid De Axe/
You Looked So Pretty When, wihch I like, are tame by comparison.
In any case, once I heard LOCO LIVE it was the only Willie Loco
album I could ever listen to again. Really.
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