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Hunter T Wolfe
Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Maligned albums: which do you rate?
Feb 21, 2010, 22:49
Popel Vooje wrote:
I've thought of two more. There's "The Burning World" by Swans - which seems to be regarded by most fans, and by Michael Gira, as their fatally compromised major label debut (he and producer Bill Laswell didn't click, apparently) but I think it's still a damned sight better than most bands' career highs. The tunes are good enough to withstand the sometimes over-lush arranegments, and it shows that Swans could hold their own as a song-based band as well as bludgeoning monochrome noise-merchants. So there...!

Also Love's "Four Sail" has a dfamned signt more subtance than some fans give it credit for - the decline in Arthur Lee's songwriting talent was clearly a gadual prpocess rather than an overnight development. There are several songs here which equal "Foerever Changes", even if they're sometimes obscured by the uber-virtuoso soloing of the new line-up. "August", "Singing Cowboy" and "Nothing" are as good as anything on their first three LPs.


Both great albums. And judging from the Love live shows in the years just before he died, Arthur Lee really liked singing 'Singing Cowboy'!
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