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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Fuzzy Warbles set! |
| Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:57:51 -0400 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Myers" <pulmyears@gmail.com>
> Further to Don Stroud's post about Andy P.'s Fuzzy Warble box.
> I just got mine in the mail and I have to say, I'm 45 years old and
> I
> haven't felt this kind of consumer rush since I got the beatles Let
> It Be
> box (the original one with the booklet) for Christmas 31 years ago.
> Classy
> job with direct marketing, kind of a benchmark if you ask me. I know
> that
> Barenaked Ladies are currently having success with the direct
> approach.
And as long as Paul is providing an opening for discussion of his
Scarborough homeboys, big ups for the new BARENAKED LADIES ARE ME. In
the long run, I was oddly disappointed with EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE
(which for all its quality songs, particularly "Take It Outside" and
"War On Drugs," just felt tonally weird to me: it's an surprisingly
cynical record, in several different ways), but after living with BLAM
for a few weeks, I'm thinking this might be not only their strongest
album since STUNT, but possibly their most consistently solid album
since GORDON.
The version that's available on eMusic is the two-disc, 27-track set,
plus there's a live version called ALL-NEW REVUE. The two-disc is at
least available in Canada (I saw it in Sam's when I was buying the new
Emily Haines solo record -- which by the way is awesome and completely
different from both Metric and her songs in Broken Social Scene), and
might be available in the states, but the second disc is supposed to
issued on its own in January as well. I recommend the two-disc set
simply because the second disc aren't off-cuts, but a full album's
worth of solid material by itself, highlighted by the phenomenally
good "Fun and Games." Best chorus on the album, and one of the most
direct protest songs I've heard in the last three years. Other
highlights, if you're conserving eMusic credits: "Bank Job," "Bull In
A China Shop," "Peterborough and the Kawarthas" (Jim Creeggan's best
song ever), "Rule the World With Love" (excellent 60s pastiche,
complete with giant 12-string riffs and an amazing repeating B
section) and "Wind It Up," featuring a guest solo by Canadian hesher
legend Kim Mitchell.
S
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