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Silent Majority wrote:I know it sounds like I don't love it, but all this conflicting, contradictory, overegged thinking is from a place of real pleasure. Huge thanks to Father Christmas for my album of 2013.
What the fuck do the Kinks have to do with any of this?
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Flex wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:I know it sounds like I don't love it, but all this conflicting, contradictory, overegged thinking is from a place of real pleasure. Huge thanks to Father Christmas for my album of 2013.
What the fuck do the Kinks have to do with any of this?
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First listen through of the remixed Peace and Love.

Gridlock is fucking brilliant, interesting and rhythmic as opposed to overbearing and cloying.

White City has always been one of my favourite songs off the old albym, didn't find the mix too cluttered before. May actually miss some of the details.

Young Ned of the Hill. Such clarity, you can hear the transformation from ye olde folk tune into a mental roots reggae dub breakdown. Never a favourite, this came to life on the Strummer live album.

Misty Morning, Albert Bridge. Good choice to keep the widescreen feel here, the punched up, louder vocal is immeasurably helpful. Very good song, as before. Jem's lyrics were never his strongest suit, but Shane's singing has conviction in its muddiness.
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Cotton Fields. I think Rankens' backing vocals are a little overbearing still, but this is much better than previously and thank fucking christ for the loss of the gated drum noise. Shame they kept some of the phasey Cotton Fields leading into the bridge, those were instantly dated in the eighties in a way the Pogues never were. "First Lord Nelson's sunken ships. Now Steve Lillywhite's drunken mix" is that the only time a bad review of the productions been contained in the album itself?
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Blue Heaven. Possibly unsalvagable.
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Down All the Days. A classic, as always. I haven't seen the film, but I love the book of My Left Foot. MacGowan & Chevron's duetting is lovely. A real favourite, glad to have it in more clarity. I would definitely have snipped out the cheesy typewriting effects which are a meta distraction.
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USA. The most improved so far. A sneering, southern gothic menace reveals itself. I really am adoring being able to hear MacGowan's singing as he slides away from his peak as he, with grim hedonism, pursues a nadir in his cackling abandonment of reality around him. How plastic 1980s to attempt and mask this sound.
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Lorelei. A brilliant Radiators From Space song.
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Gartloney Rats. After a Rads song, here's something excellent from Steeleye Span. It was definitely to the band's benefit that they took in real Irish people from two of the best bands out of the Republic, but when MacGowan's dead eyed acid consumption lead to an atropyhing of his muse, it has the effect of turning the Pogues into little more than a curation of other people's talents.
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Boat Train. After that diversion into two of the band's forebears, it's great to be back to MacGowan's writing in peak form. Another classic. We had a glimpse of what this song could be without the overlayering of every instrument in the world with the boxset of demos, here it is returned to being the band in a rip roaring Red Roses style.
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Tombstone. Another one that came to life on the Strummer album. This kind of fails to make an impression.
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Night Train to Lorca. Previously unnoticed, I like this a hell of a lot more.
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London You're A Lady. I always want to like this more than I do. Sounds better, as the entire LP does. The problem is the lyrics are obvious, self parodying shit and the vocals completely lack belief. He would go onto write like this full time for the Popes. A disappointing conclusion to a much improved album.
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Too bad they didn't remix Train of Love and Everyman Is A King, two of my favorites on the expanded edition.
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