Re: It's Hard To Write New Songs

["Scott Schrade" <schrade@akrobiz.com>]

> On the It's Hard debate, after all I'd heard on this list I really didn't want
> to like it, but I have to admit that I think it is their best post-Quad album.
> WBN and WAY have their moments but suffer from very weak songs


Honestly, you "IT'S HARD proponents" who like that better than WHO BY
NUMBERS or WHO ARE YOU amaze me !  Truthfully, I don't understand
how anyone could like IT'S HARD better than those other two albums.
But apparently, many of you do.  I cannot argue with that.  The facts are
there: you *like* IT'S HARD !  You *really* like it !  :-)

I see the last four studio WHO albums as a slow slide down a hill towards
mediocrity ("You're sliding down the hill like me...").  Each is less enjoy-
able than the previous one.

Mind you, in my early days of WHO collecting, I hardly ever listened to WHO
BY NUMBERS or WHO ARE YOU.  I didn't *hate* them, I just thought there 
was other WHO material more deserving of my time.  But once I turned 30,
those albums came sharply into focus.  Now I play them all the time !

Just to be fair & opened minded, I'll listen to IT'S HARD today & see if it's
any more "focused" for me.  Maybe I'll learn to like it !  Besides, anyone
can do anything if they hold the right cards.......OK, OK, sorry about that !


> Does anyone know anything about the possible new Who album being talked about
> at Christmas time? Has this been abandoned?


An album of *new studio* material has been abandoned in favor of live tracks
from some of the shows at the end of 1999.  Which reminds me of Daltrey's
comment back then concerning a possible new studio album.  Paraphrasing:
"If the new songs we're writing are crap, we won't release them."  Hmmm.....


- SCHRADE in Akron









> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> PS. In my cd player is Sandinista by The Clash, the best of Faith No More and
> Who's Next.