Followup to New on the List

[Daniel Ligon]

On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 05:54:18PM -0500, Ted Jackson jr. 6L6 said:
> SYiB proves
> that EB is back!  In a major way.  All of us hand wringers should go
> out and get ourselves bitch-slapped!  Some people have niggled over
> the lyrics, but I think they're classic BOC subject matter.  In fact,
> I'm pretty pleased with Shirley's lyrics overall...

Oh, please...

The first and third verses are fine (and that first line is a killer),
but the other verses are horrible.  Her husband is a wife-beater,
so now we have the justification for killing him.  We don't need
no stinkin' justification!  We'll kill him because we want his wife!
*That*'s reason enough.  The "old" BOC would left in the ambiguity.

And that last verse, running away to Greece and drinking Ouzo... YAK!

> HM, what can you
> say?  The lyrics are great,

Except when Buck used "... daughter disappeared from sight" to rhyme "go
out at night".

But still the best song on the album.  Absolutely haunting.

> and show the maturity and road-weariness
> that must tug at BD's psyche all the time.  This time the autumn wind
> is doing the reaping, but the effect's the same.  LFM, again, a BD
> tear-jerker a la that tune from Flat Out whose name escapes...


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Daniel Ligon                              makmorn at qis.net

  But I'm a Howler Monkey
  Moreau's half and half man