I don't quite know how to describe the change that my relationship to this album has undergone so far. I would say I've grabbed onto a few songs which are doing it for me (not, incidentally "Diamonds on My Windshield," though I'm still working on it), and grown increasingly tolerant of others, but it stops there. I was really hoping to find something good about "San Diego Serenade" but it still sounds like a bad Van Morrison tune to me. Which bums me out.
It's too early to say that this album is a step backwards from CT (I'll save that for day 7...), but it's hard to shake the feeling that the "bad" songs on THoSN are, actually, bad and not just hard to figure out.
That said, the title track has really grown on me, as has "The Ghosts of Saturday Night." The best way to put it, I suppose, is that the songs are solidifying their positions, on the "hit" and "shit" lists respectively. More than one or two "shit list" songs make a negative review for a TW album, and this one has quite a few. Ah well, c'est la vie. I'll be listening hard these next two days, trying to give every song it's due, and we'll see how it all shakes out.
-K
PS - TW is playing Satan himself in the upcoming Terry Gilliam picture The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Heath Ledger's last, unfinished project. It looks typically ambitious and typically flawed for a Gilliam flick, almost certainly worth a look. I'm a little broke right now, but hopefully I'll be able to check it out and let you, oh few faithful readers, know what I thought. In the meantime, check out a very unusual and funny interview with the man himself from CBC (Canadian Radio), TW's segment starts around 21 minutes in. (Link from eyeballkid)
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