ELVIS CUP RD 1 - North V Goodbye Cruel World
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ELVIS CUP RD 1 - North V Goodbye Cruel World
Hmmmmmm.....Just pretend you've got them if you haven't..
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I've only listened straight through to the first eight songs (took a break, will get back to it in a bit) -- but it's pretty easy to say it's better than EC's all-time-universally-acclaimed worst ever album. In fact, GCW is the only album he's ever made that I would ever call "bad" in any way, and one of the very few that isn't great at least most of the time.
"North" may not go down super-easy but it's obviously "good" at the least. Personally, I was hoping for a bit more Rodgers & Hart/Bacharach/Porter and a bit less Sondheim as well as more variation in tempo, but I may change my mind about that too. I'm still not sure what I think, but I think just on the basis of the wondeful "Still," this is already a gazillion times better than GCW. It's also probably EC's most overtly uncommercial album since "The Juliet Letters" -- but somehow I'm getting this odd feeling it might be some kind of bizarro break-out record for him -- probably not, but I guess the hype is working on me.
"North" may not go down super-easy but it's obviously "good" at the least. Personally, I was hoping for a bit more Rodgers & Hart/Bacharach/Porter and a bit less Sondheim as well as more variation in tempo, but I may change my mind about that too. I'm still not sure what I think, but I think just on the basis of the wondeful "Still," this is already a gazillion times better than GCW. It's also probably EC's most overtly uncommercial album since "The Juliet Letters" -- but somehow I'm getting this odd feeling it might be some kind of bizarro break-out record for him -- probably not, but I guess the hype is working on me.
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North is SO amazing!
I listened to it on the way to school this morning. The songs were in my head as I walked around campus. It was a wonderfully breezy day and there were already leaves blowing around and the songs went PERFECTLY with the weather! He was right!
By the time I got back into my car to drive home, it was POURING rain! What a perfect drive home...
I listened to it on the way to school this morning. The songs were in my head as I walked around campus. It was a wonderfully breezy day and there were already leaves blowing around and the songs went PERFECTLY with the weather! He was right!
By the time I got back into my car to drive home, it was POURING rain! What a perfect drive home...
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north
north makes much more sense as an album than goodbye cruel world.......
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