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Re: Friday A.M. WHO thoughts



On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, Dave Elliott wrote:

  The music itself on
> PsychoDerelict is boring (I NEVER thought I'd say that about Pete Townshend).
> There isn't ONE great tune on that album.

"English Boy."  Manages to convey the desperation, the observations,
the inner state of Ray High brilliantly.  Restating it at the end of
the album drives these home all the more forcefullly.

> and pales in comparison with something like Empty Glass.

Arguably.  But EG didn't attempt an overarching narrative, something
that serves to tie the individual songs on PsyD together into a
stronger whole.

Alan

> I liked it better when it was done in the context of the story on the PPV (I
> found the CD version a little hard to listen to, though), but presented in
> that way the music is secondary to the story.

??  The story is as much on the CD as on the PPV, you just don't have
the actors to look at.

Alan

As a matter of fact, I could have went to any school I wanted -- MIT,
Yale, Harvard.            --Joseph Robert Zipay, on alt.fan.letterman