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Subject: whatever mortal = tribute album? Author: duncan [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 07:58:28 03/04/02 Mon i'm new to this messageboard so i don't know if this has been discussed before, but... has anyone noticed that 'over jordan' is basically a reworking (with the same tune) of 'wayfaring stranger' (ancient traditional song)? also 'many splendored thing' has exactly the same tune/ structure as 'he was a friend of mine' (Dylan, i think) and goes so far as to paraphrase the line 'he died on the road'? also includes 'she is a dream of the sea', quoted from the renderers'/Bonnie's song of the same name. This might all seem like mindless trivial wankery but i reckon there's something there to either commend or condemn mr pajo. Not sure. What do you think? Will Oldham regularly outsings dave on that record... and badly-written lines like 'there was something like a wall between us/ that stopped her from going down on my penis' make me wince with i-wanna-be-bonnie-prince-billy woe (also see 'roses in the snow' and 'glad you're here with me' - "ain't he also my brother?" - for heavily palace-inflected curiosities.) I reckon d.p. is much better at being in other people's bands than his own... his references seem heavy-handed and seem more masturbatory than artistic, his gitar playing was more interesting on other people's songs (tortoise, slint, palace), his tunes are fairly unexciting, and he's one of those sanctimonious bores who insist on putting instruments like 'wood floor' and 'dog tags' on his instrumentation list. Good guitarist, not a bad photographer, but this is just silly. Not that he can't sometimes pen a fine couplet or two, but it's getting a bit dull... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: whatever mortal = tribute album? matt 12:41:51 03/05/02 Tue Re: whatever mortal = tribute album? tamu 13:15:25 03/08/02 Fri Re: whatever mortal = tribute album? -- duncan, 07:44:36 03/10/02 Sun Re: whatever mortal = tribute album? neill 12:44:01 05/21/02 Tue Re: whatever mortal = tribute album? -- seed-drip, 07:18:55 06/27/02 Thu