The Looks Or The Lifestyle Reissue

[Dr Peter O'Boogie]

I ordered direct of Cherry Red - dont have it and neither do i have an email telling me its on the way

Off to the Cherry Red website to moan a bit........

[payback3000]

Probably just working through the orders?

Mine hasn't shown...maybe today?

[Dr Peter O'Boogie]

I had a fast reply - mine i am told was sent on the 25th, it has not arrived today so my hope is tomorrow or Saturday. He asked me to let him know on Monday if nothing had arrived.

[Dr Peter O'Boogie]

Good news - Old Mother O'Boogie just called (now out of hospitol and ready to accept my post once more) to tell me a cd has arrived.

[VMNP]

Good news on both counts then.

[payback3000]

We all had a good spin of D2? This is the best of the bunch for the bonus stuff / demos for me. The demos sound a lot loser and funky than the final tracks. Teenage Grandad is really good in it's half finished form. The loops and samples are really hippity hoppity. The unreleased Clinton track 'Losing My Mind' could have been a classic b -side or LP track if it was worked up and finished. It is really good and acidy. I can hear parts which remind me of a track from Crabbi's GCM's LP. The 'ahh-oooh-ahhh' sort of vocal sample in the background and some of the synth sounds. Mmm.

The demo of GTGKTB is interesting as it sits halfway between the final version and Crabbi's 'Half Man' remix.

[RolexTharsus]

[payback3000]

Nobody in PWEI sounds complimentary about Karmadrome. It is one of Clint's sillier songs but it's still a classic PWEI single!

[syd hancock]

The Looks or The Lifestyle was always my least favourite PWEI album and the passing of time hasn't changed that, although I'm exceptionally fond of it.

It is, more clearly than ever before, the work of two songwriters in very different places.

Some of Clint's most serious work - Token Drug Song, Harry Dean Stanton, Eat Me Drink Me and I've Always Been A Coward vs some of Graham's silliest; Pretty Pretty, Teenage Grandad, Mother & Bulletproof! sits quite oddly for me.

I know that in many respects that was always the classic PWEI menu, but before TLOTL, it seemed to work better. With specific reference to Graham's stuff, I've noticed that the tunes themselves are quite varied, within themselves, jumping from style to style, whereas Clint's were much more linear, which works to their benefit, I think.

The demos emphasise that without lyrics, some of these tunes would be much, much better.

All that said, I still love Urban Futuristic, Get the Girl & Karmadrome despite themselves.

It's a birrova schizo album really; Clint getting all serious, whilst wearing a red & white stripey dress with a dreadlock pineapple on his head..

[Ohm]

Totally agree with Syd ^

After hearing the demos it dawned on me that maybe TLOTL is mostly missing Rich and Ad's non songwriter driven contributions. It's very much a case of whoever wrote the song having pretty much their original concept just re-played by the other four, quite often with the same original demo samples too. Or something. But least favourite PWEI album is still always gonna be a good record, eh.