Mark Hester wrote:
DAVID (Ruth?)wrote Good to see Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead cropping up on a reading list.
I'm afraid the only Fountainhead I know is the excellent Bluetones song of that name, probably the best thing on Expecting to Fly. I haven't heard the new album yet. Any thoughts anyone?
Buy it! Return To The Last Chance Saloon is perhaps a bit less coherent than Expecting to Fly but it packed full of great songs: Tone Blooze and Unpainted Arizona would be a great start to any album, and The Jub-Jub Bird, Broken Starr, If... and Sleazy Bed Track are superb guitar led pop songs. The album is much less jangly and quite a bit more rocking. My biggest criticism is that, for the most part, the lyrics are not great (From Sky Will Fall, which sounds very early 80's, vaguely Romo pop: `Maybe the sky will fall/And maybe kill us all/Or just the very tall') Not exactly Bluetonic or Are You Blue Or Are You Blind (which has the gorgeous lines `Down the evening rain falls, walzing round my feet/Paints reflections of the houses on my street) <sigh> A mate saw them live last week and said it was the best gig he'd ever been too. Incidentally, anyone heard a band called Mover who supported The Bluetones?; the same mate said they were brilliant, too. Apologies to Keith et al who I was on the chat with after 9.30 last night; I got cut off and couldn't get back on until 11.30! All the best, Jon -- ***************************************** The unofficial Leyton Orient Mailing List For info on joining mail me at jwg.wren@dial.pipex.com or Chris Uwins at web-orient@clara.net ***************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------