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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: The Staw That Broke The Auditites Back. ( Do Electric Sheep Make A |
| Date | Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:03:54 -0500 |
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Well, I like Helen Love a lot -- I've owned the first two RADIO HITS
singles comps on Damaged Goods for over a decade, and to this day, I
adore their cheeky ripoff of the Jam's "Boy About Town," a snarky
dissing of a trendy poseur called "Girl About Town" -- but again, they
have as little to do with Nicole Atkins as Rufus Wainwright does.
Comparing unalike artists to each other and saying that one is
intrinsically better than the other doesn't get anyone anywhere. You
might as well say that John Coltrane is better than the Beatles:
certainly to some people he is, but they're working in such completely
different styles that that statement is just useless.
And honestly, I like Helen Love fine, but they're not a patch on the
Pooh Sticks. See, THAT'S a comparison that's worthwhile, because
Helen Love and the Pooh Sticks (well, excepting MILLION SELLER and
that not-really-very-good last album, perhaps) were in fact doing
stylistically very similar stuff. But again, I just don't see enough
points of comparison between Helen Love and Nicole Atkins to bother
making the comparison.
S
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