"Jesus of Cool" for you UK ILMers.
Anyway, I listened to this one for the first time in years just this week. Was quite pleasantly surprised about how well it's stood up and how much I like it. And I just found out that "Marie Provost" not only was a real person, but the story about the dog eating her leg was real!
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
Bought this one on CD back in the late Eighties, during a brief Elvis
Costello phase of mine. I suspect I haven't listened to it all that
much because I'm not really into the pub/roots-rock stuff. Aside
from this album, Lowe kinda strikes me as being the UK's John
Fogerty -- very good if you like this kind of thing, but not of much
appeal otherwise.
This one, though, was nice because it's heavy on the late Seventies
pop, with nicely snarky lyrics, and light on the bar-band stuff. If
only the rest of Mr. Lowe's catalogue was this appealling to me (not
saying it's bad -- it isn't -- but just doesn't appeal
much to me).
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
1 month passes...
Is "Pure Pop..." a greatest hits? I can't stop listening to "Labour of Lust". It does have some roots-rock leanings, but also very poppy.
― paul b, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 21:16 (10 years ago) Permalink
9 years pass...