Prefab Sprout are shite! (1 Viewer)

[thad wrongcock]

Whiney, wimpy, nerdy, pop songs. Big deal. We hear this every day. Matchbox 21 or whatever their name is sounds like this, and they suck! Like the one guy wrote, it's Bryan Adams limey style. A few good songs, but no big deal. Have you people never listened to Miles Davis and Gil Evans? Mozart? Johnny Cash? Richard Thompson? Van Morrison? Joni Mitchell? Nina Simone? This word "genius" sure comes easy these days. It used to take Joyce, Melville, Nobel, C.V. Raman. Now we have Adam Sandler and Paddy Mcaloon. They don't have to rock out, but this record just has no balls. Geez!

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

Whiney, wimpy, nerdy, pop songs. Big deal. We hear this every day. Matchbox 21 or whatever their name is sounds like this, and they suck! Like the one guy wrote, it's Bryan Adams limey style. A few good songs, but no big deal. Have you people never listened to Miles Davis and Gil Evans? Mozart? Johnny Cash? Richard Thompson? Van Morrison? Joni Mitchell? Nina Simone? This word "genius" sure comes easy these days. It used to take Joyce, Melville, Nobel, C.V. Raman. Now we have Adam Sandler and Paddy Mcaloon. They don't have to rock out, but this record just has no balls. Geez!

are you talking about two wheels bad?

Ah, Prefab's second full-length, and the one many consider to be their best. Me, I find it incredibly difficult to single out "the best" Prefab album; I think this one, "Swoon", "Protest Songs", and "Jordan" are all equally brilliant. This album was actually the first Prefab I ever bought, but it didn't really do it for me the first time, and being the poor college student I was, it didn't take much convincing for me to sell it a month later. I was much more into the jagged edges and white-knuckled jazz-pop of their first effort "Swoon". BUT, one song kept haunting me, wouldn't get out of my head, and I recorded it onto a mix tape before selling back the album. The song, "Bonny", seemed to perfectly embody what makes Paddy McCloon's writing so brilliant.
Like Brian Wilson, he can take two relatively simple chords, and shape a song around them in such a way as to achieve something so rich and sublime you'd think he'd have a small orchestra banging away behind him. But no, all he needs is a piano or guitar, a simple and snappy rhythm section, and his voice, to create some of the most melodic, catchy, and harmonically complex music in pop since Brian Wilson's legendary "Smile" sessions. It's like how Wilson's masterpiece tune "Surf's Up" did with one piano what others would need a ten piece ensemble to achieve. The piano part is so harmonically rich that the song doesn't need anything else - it's all covered on the piano. Paddy proves equally adept at this.

 

[thad wrongcock]

yeah, whatever. They USED to be deadly, but they're no aztec camera, or savage garden for that matter. They're even worse than CAP PAS CAP!!

 

[swingkid]

yeah, whatever. They USED to be deadly, but they're no aztec camera, or savage garden for that matter. They're even worse than CAP PAS CAP!!

Even worse than Thrush and there Jesus & Mary Chain covers???

 

[thad wrongcock]

Thrush were great. i WOnder will they ever reform??

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

Thrush were great. i WOnder will they ever reform??

Thrush!!! Hahaha, i haven't heard of them in years!!! They were fucking amazing!

 

[snakybus]

Steve McQueen, great album

 

[Osama Van Halen]

HOT-FUCKIN'-DOG JUMPIN'-FUCKIN'-FRENCHMAN!!! ALL SPROUTS ARE SHITE!!!! THE HARD ROCK WORLD'S VEGETABLE NEMISIS. IN FACT MOST VEGETABLES ARE CRAP.. EXCEPT FOR TIMMY AND MOST PEOPLES RELATIONS WHO ARE IN SUCH A STATE. OH SWEET SWEET ROCK OF AGES... FLATTEN MY (guitar solo) NEIGHBOURS SPROUTS COZ' THEY GET ME DOOWWWNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnaaaaAAAAHHHHH!!!! ALLAHQUANDO!!!!!!!