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Re: (TV) The Wonder v. Warm & Cool



With regard to the debate about The Wonder, for my
money the fading out solo on "5 Hours From Calais" is
just one of his best...could've looped it round
another half dozen times... great stuff

--- Cameron Pulley <cpulley@navicominc.com> wrote:
> I like all of Tom's records (even Cover), but Warm &
> Cool and The Wonder
> both seem to be lacking something.  
> Warm & Cool reminds me of the Plush album The More
> You Becomes You.  It's
> good, but it could have been better.  I'm all for
> the "less is more" theory,
> but in the case of Warm & Cool, there's just too
> much that's lacking.  It
> needs more arrangements, more instruments.  When you
> compare Warm & Cool to
> Tom's film score stuff, his music for film sounds
> more complete, whereas
> Warm & Cool sounds like a blueprint to a great
> album.  It sounds unfinished.
> 
> Having said that, there are lots of great songs on
> it.  "Spiritual" would be
> amazing in a film score.  It makes me think of
> someone remembering a summer
> evening at dusk when they were walking by a river
> with a girl who's not
> around anymore.
> Oh yeah, the cover of the album is cool looking,
> too.  It would make an
> amzing film score...
> 
> The Wonder has some of Tom's most romantic lyrics. 
> "Pillow" is an amzing
> song, I think.  So is "Stalingrad", which, by the
> way, was the very first
> Tom Verlaine solo song I ever heard.  It just needed
> to be recorded
> differently.  Perhaps, more like "Tom Verlaine" or
> "Adventure".  To me,
> Tom's best recording sound came off of those two
> albums.
> 
> Cameron.
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