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[Spark Of Spirit]

The lyrics became incredibly stupid after Monkey (which was too serious), and they really don't have any real thought put into them. Sound-wise it's pleasant enough, I guess, but I just can't get into lyrics like:


I flew to the nearest escape
I ran from the land of rape
I jumped in the krnked up pit
I skuttled over snakes and bacon bits
I slipped on the peel of misfortune
I stumbled while tryin' to recover a fumble
I scraped up the flattened and started again
I leaped from within without a spring or a spin
we be cyclin' in a cyclic way

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Bad lyrics don't bother me unless they're outright offensive, tbh. Good lyrics really improve a song, though.

Which is why Fishbone's early work is the best.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Before they started misspelling words in titles intentionally. 

I don't find their latter material flat-out awful (other than Chim Chim), but after Still Stuck I told myself that unless they get the original line up back together they just weren't going to make the music I wanted from them.

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So you haven't listened to Crazy Glue? Was really curious about your opinion on it.

[Spark Of Spirit]

So you haven't listened to Crazy Glue? Was really curious about your opinion on it.

Nope. The song titles alone made me realize it was more of the same.

Sorry! 

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The songs are about as good as their titles.

[Spark Of Spirit]

The songs are about as good as their titles.

Is it worse than Chim Chim? If it is then I really don't want to hear it.

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The songs are about as good as their titles.

Is it worse than Chim Chim? If it is then I really don't want to hear it.

No. It's just really, really boring. It's better than Chim Chim, but it's not as good as Alcoholic, which is their worst good song.

Crazy Glue and DUI Friday are about on par with Monkey, though.

[Avaitor]

If I can go back to Mark Knopfler, this is some of my favorite playing of his.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Dire Straits is weirdly underrated these days. I'm not really sure why, they're pretty great.

[Avaitor]

Yeah, "Money for Nothing" and maybe "Sultans of Swing" aside, their work as a whole is somewhat forgotten. Which is a shame, since Knopfler was an incredible musician and they have some really sharp compositions.

At least they did up to Brothers in Arms. When they started going in a more country route, they lost me.

[Kiddington]

I still hear "Walk of Life" and "Southbound Again" on the radio occasionally, so I wouldn't say they're totally forgotten beyond those two songs.

They are definitely underrated either way, though.

[Avaitor]

Well "Walk of Life" should just be forgotten, period.

[Avaitor]

Heh, speaking of Primus, I found a copy of Pork Soda at the GoodWill by my gym today. I nearly picked it up, but I only had enough money for either it or my brunch, so I had to put it on hold.

I'm hoping that it'll still be there the next time I'm able to go there, which will be in a few days. I'm still kicking myself for holding off on buying The Low End Theory at the one by campus.

[Avaitor]

So I went to buy the new SSPU at Best Buy, and picked up the new Torche instead. while there, I noticed that they had $5 albums of their own. Some highlights I found included.

-Paranoid
-Billion Dollar Babies
-Whitesnake '87
-Sailing the Seas of Cheese
-And in case you want a copy, In Utero