3rd

Odd bird of a record. Stig Bar's looseness topped with mellotrons and violins and stuff. Supposedly Alex didn't give a shit what people thought of the record and it kinda shows. These songs are much less instantly accessible than the stuff he wrote for the last two records. Most of them are still really good though! Just a little stranger, slower, herkier-jerkier and more oddly produced than the "oh yeah, i get that!" Beatles and Stonesisms of the previous couplet. Maybe these are Electric Prune-isms? Whatever 'tis, this is darn near avant-garde guitar pop in its crankly noisefilled barber shopism.

Say - Alex Chilton has a bee-u-ti-fle voicebox, which you'd never guess judging from the hoarse, gruff approach he used for the Box Tops way back in the '10s. Now he sounds like Roger McGuinn! For more on Roger McGuinn, check out my Byrds reviews!

"Blue Moon" sounds too much like "Pachelbel's Canon" though. Why are there so many songs that sound like "Pachelbel's Canon"? I HATE that about music! And what's the Velvet Underground cover? Hasn't everybody realized yet that the Velvet Underground were never any good at all, even a little bit? Nor were Renaissance, Peter Gabriel or Rod Stewart? In fact, the world would be a better place if all of those talentless shit artists were tied up in a sack and thrown into the East River to claw each other's eyeballs out as they drown to death like they fucking deserve to, the worthless pieces of shit!

Nah, just kiddin'. ;7)