Ditto. A little Sufjan goes a loooooong way. Michael vg wrote: --- "Seaman, Dave" wrote: > I picked up Sufjan Steven's Illinoise a few weeks back. I've given it a > few listens and so far am underwhelmed. Good lyrics, nice concepts, > nice instrumentation, but overall I'm not finding much in the "strong > hook/melody" department that will be bringing me back to this one again > and again - or at all I bought this on a strong recommend from a guy in a shop I used to go to all the time. Anyway I listened and said, interesting, nice songs. interesting to totally out there lyrics. All good things, but there was something about it that left me going "ok, next". I find that sometimes my initial reaction is off so I let is sit on the shelf for a few weeks, went back to it and found I liked it even less. Tried one more time before it became trade fodder. michael ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.