BOC: AOF

[Jon Jarrett]

On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Andrew Apold wrote:

> Uh.... "Debbie Denise"? <g>   I must confess to actually liking...well, not
> liking, but
> not minding Debbie Denise on AOF.  I like it better than say, True
> Confessions.  I like Allen otherwise and all, but don't let him near a mic.
>

        Said this to Carl the other night when we met up, and I'll say it
to the list now. In my opinion, worth about $0.01 less sales tax, AoF is
a very strange album. ST has a unique flavour, and you could pick on any
song from it and guess that's where it came from if you didn't know. Same
for FoUO, particularly, and BOC itself. Also CE, from what's been being
posted, although being tape-restricted I haven't managed to get that yet.
        AoF on the other hand has songs in hugely varied flavours. Maybe
you could link `This Ain't the Summer' with `Sinful Love', and there on
to `Tattoo Vampire', and DFtR matches `Tenderloin' in a way, and also
tRoVG, and I suppose `Debbie Denise' ( which I gather from Carl was not
intended by Al to go on the album, correct me if wrong ) matches `True
Confessions' ( in that they're both lame cf. BOC's normal standards ). But
where does ETI fit? It's almost a `fun' song played like that: not bad,
but SEE shows you how it could go.. And none of those groups seem to match
up, and DFtR stands away from all of them IMO anyway.
        Not really going to make anything of this, just interested to
know if anyone else reckons that, while much of the music is as good as
BOC gets ( DfTR, TV (!!), MF maybe ) it's a strange selection of songs to
put together, and possibly not a good album therefore, but just a
collection of good songs, certainly compared to ST. But hey, if we
compare everything to ST where will we get?
        There's my cent's worth then: all opinions my own, selections
arbitrary and so on.
                     JAZZA

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