In a message dated 22/09/2002 18:36:57 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I've tried re-sequencing it in different ways, just for fun, to see if there's a better (in my mind) single album there. This is what I've come up with: Side One: Cotton Avenue Paprika Plains Side Two: Otis and Marlena 10th World Dreamland Don Juan's Reckless Daughter >> Ah, Bruce, how could you leave off The Silky Veils of Ardor?? Glad to see you left Side 3 intact, though. My two penn'orth on the modest proposal to agitate for the release of an "unplugged" Dog Eat Dog: YES, DO IT! I find the production horrible, clanky and dated. It sounds as 80s as Cameo's Word Up! album, which sounded state-of-the-art then, and is all but unlistenable now. I wouldn't say the same about DED, but I still find all the noises obtrusive - and as far as I'm concerned Thomas Dolby is the culprit. Another producer looking to add his distinctive sound to a recording, so much that it ends up sounding like him (and it is invariably a he), even unto sounding less like the artiste. Mitchell Froom is instructive in this regard. While I think he's very talented and I like his sound a lot of the time, there was a period when he was producing some very disparate artists (Suzanne Vega, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Crowded House), and they all ended up sounding like Mitchell Froom records! Azeem in London, escaping from the dreaded tax return NP: Robin Holcomb's first album, inspired by yesterday's concert. It sounds absolutely wonderful, a truly individual voice and talent PS Bruce, you've probably realised this by now, but you copied the whole digest into your post to the list. The JMDL police will be battering at your door ;-)
