moya
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Baby i'm bored
Evan Dando's solo album, i was a fan of the Lemonheads so i'm enjoying listening to his new stuff on his website
http://www.evandando.com
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moya
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here's a pretty interesting review of the album
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Evan Dando would be a lot easier to like if he wasn't some dumb, stinking, grinning hippie, to be frank. "This is the chord I'm strumming now/this is
the faith I'm leaning on," he moans, softly, on 'Hard Drive'. "Have you ever felt yourself in motion?"
Of course, Dr Dando. And we know you have. Master of career suicide, Evan Dando could have been bigger than Kurt Cobain, and no doubt wanted to be...
but cheap publicity shots in bed with Courtney love, and an ugly addiction to anything that made him "feel more rock star" left him washed up and
smelling of shit, busking on top of a bus at Glastonbury and begging for crack from Oasis.
Of course, he's off the sauce and the rocks and the sticky brown paste now, and people are whispering excitedly about "an incredible return to form",
and "the best music he's made since 'It's A Shame About Ray'". All of these things sound ominous - especially since 'Come On Feel The Lemonheads' was
an infinitely better record. And you show me a man that made better music off the wagon than he did on and we'll bury you in a pile of unsold Richard
Ashcroft LPs so huge it'll take a hundred strong team of American quarterbacks three weeks and a vat of high quality crack to dig you out. And if you
survive that we'll send Graham Coxon round your house with a hammer drill and a bottle of cheap cider, which will Show You...
Out damned spot. No, no, no. Trouble us not with these stupid notions; we have heard it all before. Not a year in living memory has passed in which
some bedraggled old fool hasn't attempted a comeback from a career death so savage and pathetic that Ron Davis felt sorry for them, heralded by press
releases bandying around phrases like "triumphant", "glorious" and "unprecedented" as if they were free condoms and this was one of Courtney's
"soirées"...
Yes, these pigs will hound us until death and beyond, and there is little we can do save ignore then - if you see one of these treacherous old swine
coming out from their gutter, stomp them like baby cows and put them back down there...
Ho, ho. As ever, there is a problem in our brilliantly thought out theory, and the problem is 'Baby I'm Bored' - it's a wicked record. Wank! Screw you
Dando. You're not supposed to be able to function without smack, and you're certainly not supposed to be able to pluck tunes out of the goddamn air
like they were pigeons.
Proof: 'Waking Up' starts with hammering keys in one ear and feedback in the other, then becomes one of the nice, but ugly songs we were promised on
the last Radiohead LP. Fine and swell. 'Hard Drive': A country song, about being a bit crap but getting on with it. Whistleable, sunny, smooth.
Grr...
'All My Life': One of those timeless things that can only be made by a doofus with an acoustic guitar. Technology will rise and swell, like Jordan's
breasts, but there will always be room for the simple folk song, and it will often be preferable. To the future equivalent of Jordan's breasts. You
know what we mean.
'It Looks Like You': Classic Lemonheads type crap, sounds like the inside of a really stupid person's head on a nice afternoon, Yogi and Picnic
Baskets. Jesus. 'Stop My Head': Sort of like house music played by Sonic Youth or something. Warm and fuzzy and very good.
We could continue. We don't dislike anything on here, and each time we listen, we like what we hear even more. A conservative, and cagey estimate is
what gave us the correct amount of exploding heads. It's difficult to say how this one will go - it could continue to improve, which is quite
possible, or it could begin to grate, and become cancerous and vile. Both things have happened to us with regards to Evan's work in the past. But
then, he wasn't sober before. Consider the purchase of this record a valuable scientific experiment. Write notes. Compare and contrast, and don't
hesitate to send us the results. This is important. If Evan gets away with this, rock'n'roll as we know it is totally buggered.
Adam Alphabet
reviewed on 21.mar.03
*** All the suffering in the world arises out of wanting happiness for self. All happiness in the world arises out of wanting happiness for others
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gabewave
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Hello Moya,
I'm not a big Lemonheads or Evan Dando fan, can't tell you why exactly, just never been a fan, but reading that review brought on a shrill bit o'
laughter to me! Thanks for posting that. I wish more people wrote reviews of that nature, hell it might make the reviews better than listening to
the albums!:D
Now Just Breath.
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