Sinister: The Boy with the arab strap ramblings

[Sandra Duric]

Question:

So what??  So they sound like other people, they borrow words, even titles
from books for their songs.  The music is still heart-achingly beautiful.
The lyrics are thoughtful and touching.  The melodies linger...

And as far as claiming what was/is their best album, I could go on about
the Stereolab keyboard similarities in Tigermilk!

This comparison thing is starting to read like a bad Melody Maker review!





At 12:19 PM 9/11/98 PDT, Matthew Neimark wrote:
>
>A lot of the talk of similarities between this new album and other 
>things from the past that people have noticed (I myself also noticed the 
>Carly Simon similarity, but then again "You're so Vain" sounds like a 
>ripoff of Carol King's "Too Late Baby").  I think that "Seymour Stein" 
>is almost note-by-note rendition of Nick Drake's Northern Sky.
>
>It isn't the 1st B&S to sport such similarities.  When my sister 1st 
>heard sinister, she thought "Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying" sounded 
>like some 70's song.  I myself thought it sounded like "All Fall Down" 
>from Primal Scream's 1st single in 1986.
>
>Just goes too show that Tigermilk was the bands best album...



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