Earthquake Weather poll

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EW

Poor : no worthwhile tracks
0
No votes
Poor to Good : a few good songs, mostly bad
9
28%
Fair/Good : even mix of good and bad
12
38%
Better than Good : mostly good songs, a few duds
11
34%
Great : perfection itself
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 32

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Poor to good.
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Silent Majority wrote:Poor to good.
Same here. Quite a symmetrical vote at the moment.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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I'd like to know who all the "better than good" people are. I've got a stockade and buckets and buckets of rotting fruit in need of a mob justice scene.
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Heston wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:Poor to good.
Same here. Quite a symmetrical vote at the moment.
I am glad that no one is voting either of the extremes so far. They are both indefensible positions.
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101Walterton wrote:Next thing I know you will say COL is the best piece of vinyl ever put together and we will have a hat trick!
Please don't talk about hats.
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Low Down Low wrote:Better than Good : a couple of great songs, mostly good songs, at most one dud.
I agree with this take. With better production, this could've been a real gem.

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Considering that beloved Joe Strummer fans are voting on this poll i think the result speaks for its self and an honest reflection as well . I haven't voted but if i did it would be poor to good.

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As a southerner and lover of folksy phrase construction, I'm sad I didn't have a chance to vote "Fair to middlin'."
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Wolter wrote:As a southerner and lover of folksy phrase construction, I'm sad I didn't have a chance to vote "Fair to middlin'."
This is also found in the northeast among older generations.
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eumaas wrote:This is also found in the northeast among older generations.
Yeah, I actually use it a bit. No idea where exactly I picked it up, but presumably from some oldsters from when I was a kid or something.
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eumaas wrote:
Wolter wrote:As a southerner and lover of folksy phrase construction, I'm sad I didn't have a chance to vote "Fair to middlin'."
This is also found in the northeast among older generations.
Folksy is universal.
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Wolter wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Wolter wrote:As a southerner and lover of folksy phrase construction, I'm sad I didn't have a chance to vote "Fair to middlin'."
This is also found in the northeast among older generations.
Folksy is universal.
Rural Ontarians as well.

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Considering that beloved Joe Strummer fans are voting on this poll i think the result speaks for its self and an honest reflection as well . I haven't voted but if i did it would be poor to good.
As I've said elsewhere around here, EW strikes me as a good double EP that would have benefited from a less blurry production ethic (as almost everybody else here has said) -- and maybe the addition of B-sides like Cholo Vest might have helped a bit, as well.

I still like Gangsterville, King Of The Bayou, Island Hopping Shouting Street, Leopardskin Limousines, Sleepwalk -- though I think the best summary of EW comes from the Salewicz bio ("He issued his instructions, and then disappeared"). Given that kind of hands off policy, Joe shouldn't have been surprised at the results....nor the reception that they got.

That being said, I think the choices of singles were strange, which probably didn't help that album -- to me, Shouting Street was the obvious choice, because it's the least cluttered, most straightforward song of the bunch, and would have made the best intro to what is, from my perspective, a mixed bag.

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Heston wrote:
msza2 wrote:Gotta go with 'poor to good' primarily because of the production.There's good-bad, like an old rocksteady 45 that only gets stronger because of the crinkle, and bad-bad, see: Earthquake Weather.

Also, the arrangements are way to hectic.
Agreed.

Gangsterville is insane.
I voted Better Than Good for this reason. I love the arrangements. I actually really like this album. I wish, as others have noted, that the production was better, but the album has so much energy that I can get past it. The only thing that may be a detractor for me is that BWYC wasn't an instrumental, and that the album may be a tad over-long.
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Chairman Ralph wrote:
Considering that beloved Joe Strummer fans are voting on this poll i think the result speaks for its self and an honest reflection as well . I haven't voted but if i did it would be poor to good.
That being said, I think the choices of singles were strange, which probably didn't help that album -- to me, Shouting Street was the obvious choice, because it's the least cluttered, most straightforward song of the bunch, and would have made the best intro to what is, from my perspective, a mixed bag.
Yep totally agree with you there Shouting Street would have been a good choice. I would have liked to have seen Sleepwalk released as i like that song but unfortunately it has an appalling delivery on the vocals. If ever a song needed a good clarity of wording its this one. I mean the song has a good sense of sensitivity but is mumbled all the way through as if he doesnt give a damn about the song. Strange :huh:

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