No one ever really talks about this album. It kinda gets swept under the cover a lot. I just wanted to post a few things about the album I like:
*First off, Freddie straight owns this album! His guitar work is so boss! There's some mean leads in there, kinda blusey too. His rhythm work is up to the usual standard, but his lead lines are devastating.
*The arrangments-OH MY GOD! Like how they just bust into waltz time at the end of "Harmony", how in the middle of "Fun" they sound like they're trying to hypnotize you into having fun, how on "Animal" they break into sort of a free jazz thing (monkey around? bear friend? lol), how on "Into My Own Thing" he makes the band sound like one big horn section, etc, etc, etc. I can go on for days.
*The electricity of the performance. I used to not like M'Lady until I saw them do it live (on video). On record it just felt like another "Dance To The Music" but live...that song was made to be played live! After seeing it live, now everytime I play the song I feel like I'm at a live show. I can go on for days....I'm gonna talk about the lyrics next....after some responses
*Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:11 pm
Some of the lyrics are slight, but taken in context with the performances and the compositions/arrangments it's forgivable. If you look at these lyrics, they're very introspective at times and revealing about what the band had been going through after Dance To The Music: "Dynamite" is one of those examples of slight, almost superficial lyrics. On the surface he's just talking about a hot chick he got with. But I personally think he's talking specifically about a groupie; in songs before this album when he speaks of women he's usually talking about being in love, falling out of love, working through love, or even not being with a girl because he doubts he'll get the love he wants. This is the first song that just talks about how hot the chick is and her coming on to him("I like the way she moves..." "She's got a beautiful tan" "I want you...me and you...") but like I said, the lack of depth in these lyrics is made up for by everything else in the song. Especially the way they poked fun at their last hit record at the end. Pricless. In "Chicken" those hangers on rear their ugly heads("cant you tell I'm in your corner, dont you know i'm good for you") and Sly responds to what can only be the fast life("You just think I'm scared to party, sometimes I do sometimes I dont...You can call me what you want") and peer pressure. I'm sorry, but lyrically "Plastic Jim" is a waste of time. It feels like he rush wrote it to go along with the "Elanor Rigby" refrain(which was clever). The song itself is awesome. Freddie goes all out, it's like he's soloing the entire time. "Harmony" has a little nugget of doubt wrapped up in its joy("do you like me for who i am, or who you want me to be?") "Life" is similar, as he sandwiches some introspective wisdom in between advice on life("You might be scared of somethin' - look at Mr Stewart He's the only person he has to fear He'd only let himself get near He don't trust nobody If he stopped bein' so shady He could have a nice young lady") "I'm An Animal" is just plain silly, but it's fun. "Jane is a Groupee" is as plain as the title states. It's on the verge of the same mistrappings as "Plastic Jim" lyrically(rushed), but he's trying to make a point. He could've taken a little more time to fine tune those couple of tunes, but they did do this in a really fast pace; Dance To The Music was released a mere 5 or 6 months before this. They probably did it on tour. anyhow, more later. I gotta take a break
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