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Re: (TV) Another Bad Guy - Stalingrad



Don't take all the creidt Leo. I've posted on this subject before - I think
Stalingrad is really trite.

Like

Tom Verlaine
Words from the front
Warm and Cool

Don't Care

Dreamtime
Flashlight

Dislike

Cover
The wonder







----- Original Message -----
From: "Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: (TV) Another Bad Guy


> Maurice said,  "But I'll own up to being a bad man, and to being not so
fond of _The Wonder_, either.  (I'm probably the guy who didn't like the
lyrics of "Stalingrad," either.  Sorry, folks.) "
>
> I know it's one of Howard's favorite songs (or riffs), but I agree with
Maurice 100% on both The Wonder and Stalingrad.  So that makes  two  bad
guys.
>
>
> Leo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maurice Rickard [mailto:maurice@mac.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:05 PM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) current # of MMooners
>
>
> Like Martin, I tried to send a reply to this thread that seems not to
> have made it.  Apologies for the repeats, if any:
>
> At 7:03 PM +0100 4/26/01, dudley wrote:
> >>  At 6:53 PM +0100 4/26/01, dudley wrote:
> >>  >the new year - newness ends (touch and go) www.southern.net
>
> To which I gave my unpopular opinion that I didn't much like it, and
> Dudley said:
>
> >oh, you bad man 8)
> >
> >i think it's a wonderful record, and much better than anything bedhead
had
> >managed over their course.
>
> I think I didn't like it as someone who *loved* _Transaction de
> Novo_.  It was a mighty achievement, indeed--the chiming quality of
> "More than Ever," the narcotic restraint alternating with guitar
> explosions in "Parade"...I could go on.  But the vocals worked so
> well buried in the mix with the Bedhead stuff, and...I just didn't
> dig the more vocal-to-the-front style going on here, particularly
> with the lyrics this time out.  (The "now I'm lying in the fetal
> position/I wish I'd never become a musician" rhyme on one
> track...was, shall we say, the weak link.)
>
> Nonetheless, you've convinced me to give it another spin.  But I'll
> own up to being a bad man, and to being not so fond of _The Wonder_,
> either.  (I'm probably the guy who didn't like the lyrics of
> "Stalingrad," either.  Sorry, folks.)
>
> A bad man indeed,
> Maurice
>
>
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