CHANGE MYSELF:
Nice song, nice sentiment, and such bells! "Todd, what's up with
them bells?" And how odd, Todd, for the trumpets to carry the melody.
This song predicts the change Todd is about to experience in his distribution, creation, and performance of music.
LOVE SCIENCE:
Hey, here's a thought. Program your CD player to track this cut
first. Or, to skip it altogether. Depending on your tastes and mood,
either of the above is recommended.
WHO'S SORRY NOW:
warner brothers.
THE SMELL OF MONEY:
(see above)
IF I HAVE TO BE ALONE:
"Todd, what's up with them bells?"
LOVE IN DISGUISE:
Move over Gilbert & Sullivan, here comes Todd. With all deference
to "Up Against It", someday, we should post a list-contest for the
best grouping of Todd works to create a musical, that includes this
song and Viking song.
KINDNESS:
Can't listen without thinking of my grandmother, Daisy Pearl.
(what a name!) And BYW, this song should also be in that
aforementioned musical. (it's not often I get to use aforementioned
in a sentence... it's so unreasonably ancillary, wonder if I spelled
it correctly?) {WOW, it's not often I get to use unreasonably
ancillary, wonder if I spelled it correctly?}
PUBLIC SERVANT:
Thanks Todd, I needed that. "if you haven't got the balls, cut
'em loose." I imagine Willie Wilcox beating the skins on this one.
GAYA'S EYES:
Todd's vocals and the sax saves this song.
SECOND WIND:
Who else but Todd would rhyme "spoken", "snuck in" and "choking"?
Fucking beautiful. (WAIT, the kids might turn me in)
And who wouldn't LOVE a song with the word "blow" in it several
times?
which brings us to the 2W outtake...
JESSE:
Can't imagine Warner Brothers NOT including this gem on the CD.
Second Wind ends Todd's traditional recording career, if he ever had one. He always recorded untraditional music on traditional formats. After 2W, he embarks on a career of untraditional music on untraditional formats. For too many Todd fans, just brought back to life with NH, 2W is the last album they have heard, and may will hear. Too bad for them, too bad for Todd, too bad for us, too bad for the world.
So goes OH, changing himself. He certainly has caught his second wind, but will the fraction of the fringe of the masses be left behind?
I hope not. But if so, Todd has left them a wonderful CD full of music to remember him by.
Jerry
Based on two conversations with Todd, I believe this is the last commercial straw that got OH up on that unconventional camel. His payoff CD to Warner Brothers is Todd's "standard CD" swan song(s), and what wonderful music it is. Like Todd, I am sorry the CD was not promoted, but then, what's new boys and girls? Unlike Todd, who undoubtedly lives with each project daily, hourly, secondly, I was NOT jaded by my first listen to 2W. I heard him urge fans to NOT buy the CD. He was apparently really pissed at "the suits". (Can you imagine Todd in a conference room full of cherry wood and 3-piece suits!) I think not. "so I say to you , 'piss off, i bathe.'"
CHANGE MYSELF:
Nice song, nice sentiment, and such bells! "Todd, what's up with
them bells?" And how odd, Todd, for the trumpets to carry the melody.
This song predicts the change Todd is about to experience in his distribution, creation, and performance of music.
LOVE SCIENCE:
Hey, here's a thought. Program your CD player to track this cut
first. Or, to skip it altogether. Depending on your tastes and mood,
either of the above is recommended.
WHO'S SORRY NOW:
warner brothers.
THE SMELL OF MONEY:
(see above)
IF I HAVE TO BE ALONE:
"Todd, what's up with them bells?"
LOVE IN DISGUISE:
Move over Gilbert & Sullivan, here comes Todd. With all deference
to "Up Against It", someday, we should post a list-contest for the
best grouping of Todd works to create a musical, that includes this
song and Viking song.
KINDNESS:
Can't listen without thinking of my grandmother, Daisy Pearl.
(what a name!) And BYW, this song should also be in that
aforementioned musical. (it's not often I get to use aforementioned
in a sentence... it's so unreasonably ancillary, wonder if I spelled
it correctly?) {WOW, it's not often I get to use unreasonably
ancillary, wonder if I spelled it correctly?}
PUBLIC SERVANT:
Thanks Todd, I needed that. "if you haven't got the balls, cut
'em loose." I imagine Willie Wilcox beating the skins on this one.
GAYA'S EYES:
Todd's vocals and the sax saves this song.
SECOND WIND:
Who else but Todd would rhyme "spoken", "snuck in" and "choking"?
Fucking beautiful. (WAIT, the kids might turn me in)
And who wouldn't LOVE a song with the word "blow" in it several
times?
which brings us to the 2W outtake...
JESSE:
Can't imagine Warner Brothers NOT including this gem on the CD.
Second Wind ends Todd's traditional recording career, if he ever had one. He always recorded untraditional music on traditional formats. After 2W, he embarks on a career of untraditional music on untraditional formats. For too many Todd fans, just brought back to life with NH, 2W is the last album they have heard, and may will hear. Too bad for them, too bad for Todd, too bad for us, too bad for the world.
So goes OH, changing himself. He certainly has caught his second wind, but will the fraction of the fringe of the masses be left behind?
I hope not. But if so, Todd has left them a wonderful CD full of music to remember him by.
Jerry
Based on two conversations with Todd, I believe this is the last commercial straw that got OH up on that unconventional camel. His payoff CD to Warner Brothers is Todd's "standard CD" swan song(s), and what wonderful music it is. Like Todd, I am sorry the CD was not promoted, but then, what's new boys and girls? Unlike Todd, who undoubtedly lives with each project daily, hourly, secondly, I was NOT jaded by my first listen to 2W. I heard him urge fans to NOT buy the CD. He was apparently really pissed at "the suits". (Can you imagine Todd in a conference room full of cherry wood and 3-piece suits!) I think not. "so I say to you , 'piss off, i bathe.'"
CHANGE MYSELF:
Nice song, nice sentiment, and such bells! "Todd, what's up with
them bells?" And how odd, Todd, for the trumpets to carry the melody.
This song predicts the change Todd is about to experience in his distribution, creation, and performance of music.
LOVE SCIENCE:
Hey, here's a thought. Program your CD player to track this cut
first. Or, to skip it altogether. Depending on your tastes and mood,
either of the above is recommended.
WHO'S SORRY NOW:
warner brothers.
THE SMELL OF MONEY:
(see above)
IF I HAVE TO BE ALONE:
"Todd, what's up with them bells?"
LOVE IN DISGUISE:
Move over Gilbert & Sullivan, here comes Todd. With all deference
to "Up Against It", someday, we should post a list-contest for the
best grouping of Todd works to create a musical, that includes this
song and Viking song.
KINDNESS:
Can't listen without thinking of my grandmother, Daisy Pearl.
(what a name!) And BYW, this song should also be in that
aforementioned musical. (it's not often I get to use aforementioned
in a sentence... it's so unreasonably ancillary, wonder if I spelled
it correctly?) {WOW, it's not often I get to use unreasonably
ancillary, wonder if I spelled it correctly?}
PUBLIC SERVANT:
Thanks Todd, I needed that. "if you haven't got the balls, cut
'em loose." I imagine Willie Wilcox beating the skins on this one.
GAYA'S EYES:
Todd's vocals and the sax saves this song.
SECOND WIND:
Who else but Todd would rhyme "spoken", "snuck in" and "choking"?
Fucking beautiful. (WAIT, the kids might turn me in)
And who wouldn't LOVE a song with the word "blow" in it several
times?
which brings us to the 2W outtake...
JESSE:
Can't imagine Warner Brothers NOT including this gem on the CD.
Second Wind ends Todd's traditional recording career, if he ever had one. He always recorded untraditional music on traditional formats. After 2W, he embarks on a career of untraditional music on untraditional formats. For too many Todd fans, just brought back to life with NH, 2W is the last album they have heard, and may will hear. Too bad for them, too bad for Todd, too bad for us, too bad for the world.
So goes OH, changing himself. He certainly has caught his second wind, but will the fraction of the fringe of the masses be left behind?
I hope not. But if so, Todd has left them a wonderful CD full of music to remember him by.
Jerry
