Sinister: DCW - What's up with the heathen purists!!!!

[Newphil1 at xxx.com]

I bought Purple Rain on DVD the other day for £5.99. Y'know the Prince movie? 
The thing is I can't stop watching it. I'm obsessed. The man is such a star - 
the moves, the tunes, the wailing guitar solos. And then there's Wendy & Lisa 
- in fact the whole of The Revolution rule. They make the Strokes look like 
the rich kid dullards that they really are. Anyhow I'll try not to bring up 
Prince again. Forgive me if I go astray. damn...

I didn't get DCW until Friday. I'm stuck in the sticks with only a 
Woolworth's and they weren't stocking it. So it wasn't until I travelled to London to 
play a disastrous gig (oh! the horror!) that I could pick up a copy.

Now having been a B&S fan since the first time I heard them (Lazy Line 
Painter Jane on The Chart Show if you're interested) and generally a little 
disappointed with the overall Fold Your Hands Child album (don't get me wrong - it's 
good album, there are some corkers on it - but also some clunkers) I wasn't 
really expecting a great album.

Add to this my own Logan's Run style theory that bands should only release 4 
studio albums within 4 - 7 years (ideally 5 years) and then split AND all the 
negativity about the album from the old school hardcore fans I was prepared to 
be disappointed.

However, the albums great, Mad Murdoch's sleeve notes are even better. I've 
been mocked for years about my fear of going into specialist shops (music, art &
 craft, camera, dry cleaners, etc.) and now I know that Stuart UNDERSTANDS.

Anyhow - the music. Personally I think Trevor Horn coming in as producer was 
a great move - after 3 years of treading water (although with often 
entertaining results) I think B&S sound more focussed than they have since '98. 

I know it's not a classic album but it's so vibrant. The arrangements are 
faultless, all the songs are at least 4 out of 5, vocally they've never sounded 
so good, stevie's guitar solos are rampant ...my god, what's up with all the 
haters?

I know there's no Isobel (which hurts me a lot more than it probably hurts 
you), I know the album doesn't start with a hushed Murdoch epic like the others 
do but isn't progression the key to being a great band (the Beatles, the Beach 
Boys, Take That, etc.). Do we really want Stuart Murdoch to keep rewriting 
Fox In The Snow over and over again?

I know DCW isn't as good as Tigermilk but what is? Tigermilk was a statement, 
a stand, a call to arms - you can't repeat a moment like that - especially 
once you've won. Tigermilk was Stuart Murdoch's Purple Rain...

...oh damn,


Phil M.
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