I always come across something that I’ve not heard in years and give it a play or take it back home to put onto my hard-drive.
On my most recent visit one of the lucky albums to be chosen was Soul Asylum’s early nineties big seller Grave Dancers Union. Back then I really loved this album and must have been played over a hundred times.
So after giving it a listen for the first time in about seventeen years does stand up to being as good as I remembered it? Well no. Its okay in places but mainly it just sounds like second rate early nineties rock.
I knew it would be as good as I remembered it after the first verse which contains one of the worst metaphors that I’ve ever heard.
‘Grandfather watches the grandfather clock, and the phone hasn't rang for so long.
And the time flies by like a vulture in the sky, suddenly he breaks into song.’
Time flies by like a vulture in the sky? Makes no sense at all. Its not clever its just thinking of words to fit around rhyming by and sky. Never in my life have I heard anyone say something like: ‘Yeah I had a really good time last night. The time just flew by. Yeah it flew by like a vulture in the sky.’
Sure a song doesn’t always need to have good lyrics or lyrics that make sense. But when its as bad as this then the chorus - which is still pretty good - still can’t quite redeem it.
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