i think Elliots has (unwillingly) become the mopey "hip cuz we're sad" indiekid's superhero after he did the oscars or grammys (i always get

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Scott Turner wrote: them

confused). I mean hearing one song of his off of "either/or" is cool or using him as intermittent background music for a movie is cool, but listening to the whole album straight through I find to be really really boring. In that respect he's like Low and other half-ass mope bands that just don't have a diverse enough pallete to paint a sad painting that you want to look at for more than a couple of minutes.

OK, I must chime in here and say that while a lot of his songs are sad in that way, a lot of them aren't. Also, the best thing is going to his shows and playing "I saw Elliott smile" - he'll go a whole show with his eyes closed and no facial expressions and then someone will make a silly request and he'll laugh. He also covers John Lennon's "Jealous Guy," Big Star's "Thirteen," George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity" etc. And some of his songs are so wonderful and I can't see how they'd be interpreted as anything but optimistic: say yes, between the bars, etc. Honestly, if you see him play I think your opinion may very well change. I just saw him the past two Wednesdays and he did totally different sets and was incredible both times. For those of you not into his solo acoustic kinda stuff, his new album XO (which is out in the states on Aug. 25, I don't know when it's out in England) has a different more Beatles-ish sound with lots of cool instrumentation. :) Rachel "I'm the queen of the castle when no one's around and I'll give you my number when my feet touch the ground" -- the weekend "well you can't get even but you can get mad and it's not funny no and it's not sad it's just a feeling that I've always had look out world I'm about to be bad" -- Kirsty MacColl, "Bad" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. For info on my zine I'M NOT WAITING go to http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/zine.html +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+