Leonard Cohen sound??

Even though it's still playing, I shall assume it's over.

It was an album that quickly became tiring to listen to.

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

I shall give it 1 star.

First time I laffed at any of the songs.

I fairly enjoyed that, though not an easy listen. A LOT of the pointless dialogue could have been cut out but the actual songs were quite well produced, played and sung, with some pleasantly quirky comedy moments.

3/5

That was an absolute abomination.

The only vaguely bearable bits were when he was basically just covering old hippie classics, literally basically.

"Lentil Nightmare" was arguably the only tilt at parodic 'originality', but that was just as tiresome as it could've possibly been.

The cover of "Gnome" was especially, criminally egregious.

Also, there was a bit where I felt like - where Planer was mugging away like a pr*ck - Syd Barrett's 'mic on' meltdown from The Madcap Laughs was being made merry of.

At the start of "If It's In You"?

Odd album, the comedy witting missed the skill of the actual TV series, reduced to little more than hippie cliches, and the songs were taking relatively straight, Wonder if I'd heard that back in the day I'd be out checking Caravan and IBS ISB earlier?

Nightjar wrote:

That was an absolute abomination.

The only vaguely bearable bits were when he was basically just covering old hippie classics, literally basically.

"Lentil Nightmare" was arguably the only tilt at parodic 'originality', but that was just as tiresome as it could've possibly been.

The cover of "Gnome" was especially, criminally egregious.

Also, there was a bit where I felt like - where Planer was mugging away like a pr*ck - Syd Barrett's 'mic on' meltdown from The Madcap Laughs was being made merry of.

At the start of "If It's In You"?

They decided to release that, it was a quite deliberate decision by Roger Waters and Dave 'Davie' Gilmour* as well as Syd back in the day.

* or whoever it was that produced it.

Irredeemable, abject, almost certainly worse than the Weird Al album, cash-in crap.

Culturally toxic dross.

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

They decided to release that, it was a quite deliberate decision by Roger Waters and Dave 'Davie' Gilmour* as well as Syd back in the day.

* or whoever it was that produced it.

Well, I am adding the proviso that I might be mistaken, but if it is the case then I'd say that (does look like it was DG and RW from Wikipedia), they had their reasons and Nigel Planer et al had their's.

Just sayin'.

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

Almost certainly worse than the Weird Al album

Oh, touché.

Nightjar wrote:

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

They decided to release that, it was a quite deliberate decision by Roger Waters and Dave 'Davie' Gilmour* as well as Syd back in the day.

* or whoever it was that produced it.

Well, I am adding the proviso that I might be mistaken, but if it is the case then I'd say that (does look like it was DG and RW from Wikipedia), they had their reasons and Nigel Planer et al had their's.

Just sayin'.

Actually, I wouldn't put it past Roger Waters, already planning Shine On, evil mastermind.

Butterfield wrote:

Did this album not chart?

https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/21828/neil/

Neil has always reminded me of Ludo from Labyrinth, or the other way round, in look, stance, and sound.

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Butterfield wrote:

Did this album not chart?

https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/21828/neil/

That'll be a no then. But at least I now know there was another single!