08-15-2004, 06:31 PM
I like the way Grooveless Tongue thinks! :mrgreen:
IVL does have a somewhat meandering songwriting style, much less disciplined and direct than IBE---but much more focused than M@W, upon which it's an improvement. My feeling is that it's an album of good songs, marred by the production. Even 'Silver Jet' sounds polished and tamed (e.g., the synthesized-sounding background vocals).
A different producer would have made a much better record. So it's not the 'concept' (whatever that was), so much as the execution IMHO.
IVL does have a somewhat meandering songwriting style, much less disciplined and direct than IBE---but much more focused than M@W, upon which it's an improvement. My feeling is that it's an album of good songs, marred by the production. Even 'Silver Jet' sounds polished and tamed (e.g., the synthesized-sounding background vocals).
A different producer would have made a much better record. So it's not the 'concept' (whatever that was), so much as the execution IMHO.