[Mael-list] Killer Couplet

[Richard Miller]

In message 
<f9f47e030804031431p19c45bc6q26f72e0a5d6d2903 at mail.gmail.com>, Will 
Vigar <immanion at gmail.com> writes
>On 03/04/2008, Richard Miller <richard at seasalter0.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>
>>  Lyrically it is one of their best. Musically it is pretty good too. I
>> gather that some people have suggested it isn't as good as Waterproof.
>
>Oh no!  That's not really what I meant.

No, it wasn't you I meant.

>  It''s every bit as good
>(edging towards better, actually) but Good Morning took two listens
>for me fall off my chair laughing in appreciation.

The piano riff grabbed me immediately, but it took a while for some of 
the lines to break through. Some of them I still hadn't got by the time 
Santa Dog kindly posted the full lyric.

>  I was on the floor
>half way through the first listen of Waterproof....

You and me both. When I heard those guitars kick in, I just imagined 
what it would sound like live. But I knew it could never be as good as 
in my imagination, that I was setting myself up for a disappointment. 
How wrong I was. It worked exactly as brilliantly as I hoped.

>I think with the lyric being sung is such a shrill falsetto, it took
>longer for me to penetrate the lyric on Good Morning where Waterproof
>being mid register was easier to discern....
>
>Or something.....

Something like that, yes.

>
> With
>> all due respect, that's rather like complaining that Leonardo da Vinci went
>> off form a bit after the Mona Lisa.
>
>Well, actually, the loss of form was WITH the Mona Lisa......awful
>painting.   I really don't see what the fuss is about....
>
>Will
>(Fine Art Student...hehe)

I remembered your background as I wrote that, and figured you might have 
some leftfield comment to make about it... :-)
-- 
Richard Miller