BOC: Am I alone in thinking this? (was revamped set)

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

>      Naw, I agreefor the most part.  BOC were more coherent and spookier
> before they escaped from Pearlman :)  _Imaginos_, as we know, would have
> been a marvelous return to form had it actually been a "BOC" album :)
>
>      BOC has always had a mix of awesome and duff tracks on its later
> albums, IMO.  Actually, there are a few tracks on the early albums which
> I'm not wild about, but what the heck.
>
>      Shouldn't people be slagging off (er) "Teen Archer" (isn't it?) for
> its enormously repetitive lyrics.  Surely Shirley was no worse!? :)

        But the thing about 'Teen Archer' is that, yes, granted, it's
repetitive, but can you tell what it's about? A teenage Cupid, yes
possibly, but what's all the rest of it?
                Jon J.