Dammit what does this remind me of.

Les Boys.

Guitar solo.

This is proper Lou Reed's Transformer.

Also, some of Elton.

"Goodnight Ladies"...

I like this.

It shows some humour and intelligence.

Voices other than Kmopfler's are heard.

It's a bold CODA!

It is over.

I do feel its first half is noticeably stronger than its second, the first three tracks of the album being stone-cold classics. The second half is, in places, clearly less inspired. Because of that, I shall rank it slightly below Love Over Gold and give it four stars.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it.

Fangirl Three wrote:

Dammit what does this remind me of.

It's the middle bit of Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

I really liked Les Boys.

That was really like "Goodnight Ladies" from Transformer.

Not only theme-wise but that it was the final track.

A decadent and languidly dissolute CODA to a beforewitnessed study of technically astute and not entirely un-soulful Bluesy-pub-rock aesthetic raised to the nth power.

It was also good because it showed - possibly conspicuously so - that they were from London.

Nightjar wrote:

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

It's made especially poignant by the knowledge that the girl in the video for it died young.

Jayzik Azikiwe was a Gambian singer who died of cancer in her 40s.

Fangirl Three wrote:

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

National Guitar being used as such things were meant to be used.

Does that mean the line in Graceland, about how the 'Mississippi delta, was shining like a national guitar' isn't a metaphor about America at all, it's just a simile?

I'm sure it was both.

Clever. Clever. Clever.

Is that it then?

No more votes?

It's an outrage.

Who hasn't voted then?

I've compiled a list of all the albums that I judge to have been lacking votes etc...

Is it you Countess?

StevieBachyButtonBaby didn't listen to it, so I assume he hasn't voted.

Ohhh.