TubularBelle
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Posted: Feb. 23 2006, 20:27 |
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Quote (TOBY @ Feb. 23 2006, 15:24) | My super ironic prediction about this new project is that by making an album that isn't TRYING to be 'hip' or 'sexy' Mike actually makes his most hip and sexy album since Ommadawn - I'll look forward to it. |
Unbelievable! Mike sounded so confident and so sure of himself, more relaxed than I have ever heard him before, and yet he STILL does not realise that the early stuff from the 70's and what he is working on now IS his most hip, sexy and cool stuff, even though he himself personally prefers it. He has allowed the media and promoters to dictate to him what is cool. He even admitted the Platinum Collection would have been more interesting if some of the more (what was the word he used?) unusual stuff was in it. Why can't Mike select his own tracks for a Compilation Album? This is WAY too much excitement for me in one day. First I discover that Mike got to Number 1 in the Worlds Greatest Guitarists Poll (Did anyone tell him?) and now that he is working on the ulitmate album. I HATE Moonlight Shadow, Portsmouth, In Dulci Jubilo, Pictures in the Dark, etc. This is what makes him UNCOOL and this is what attracts the nerdy fan base (I apologise profusely but this is my humble opinion) and if you took ALL that crap away and were only left with TB, HR, Incantations, Ommadawn, Amarok, SODE, TBII, and hopefully this new piece, and someone with half a brain to promote it properly, then Mike would have GOT the recognition he deserved ALL along without having to compromise himself and write crappy commercial ditties.
THANK YOU JAN, I LOVE YOU
-------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day!
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