Imaginos/Half Life Time

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Ted Jackson jr. s2h2 wrote:

> Sure, occasional flashes of lyric inspiration [c.f. Harvest Moon]
> bust through the murk, but damn!, SP's lyrics really had such a huge
> impact on the mystery that swirled around BOC's first 3 great albums.
> The music has always been uniformly great, but the lyrics never
> seemed to recapture those early days...

        'Tis all too true... Though, I tell you what else is good, letting
John Shirley's lyrics slip aside for the moment (ergh), I have on phones
at this moment _Chemical Wedding_ by Bruce Dickinson, which the lamentably
departed Carl Anderson was quite right to attempt to persuade me was
comparable to _Imaginos_ in is grandeur and its lyrical virtuosity... Most
of it lifted from Blake but, hell, Sandy owed rather a lot to Lovecraft
didn't he, it's the arrangement of words that makes for the marvel in
these cases. Yours,
                    Jon