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David Dickson <ddickso2@uccs.edu> (06.08.2006)

Great damn album, at least for a 74-minute underground LP from 198-frickin'-6. Eclectic, too. Agreed on the 'Strength of Strings' being the best song on the album. With possible competition from "My Father". Bombast and New Age, my friends, bomBAST. . . and New Age.

Only bad thing about the album? The first quarter or so. WHOSE DEMONIC IDEA WAS IT TO PLACE THE MUSHY BORING INSTRUMENTALS "IVY AND NEAT," "MENISCUS," AND "TEARS" BACK TO CONSARNED BACK??? SATAN'S?

You know, that's a question for us all to ponder.

You know what's really scary? I'm typing this comment while listening to Mandy Moore's "Yo Yo". If any two things go together better than This Mortal Coil and Many Moore, I have yet to hear it. Let us dance (and then meditate).

Or, as the British say, "dahnce."

(and then meditate.)

David Dickson <ddickso2@uccs.edu> (06.08.2006)

Ooh, I can't believe I'm the first to comment on Tee Em Cee. What does this say about the music community, eh? I'm the teenybopper sympathizer, remember? The TEENYBOPPER SYMPATHIZER. (See above.)

Speaking of which, goshdarnit. This album has the same problem as Filligree and Shadow! Great all the way through--except in one small part. In this case, at the end. Just when you think you've heard a perfect 76-minute splurge of goth and majesty, they have to drop the ball with a totally out-of-place glam-rock cover and then. . . a weird jazzy instrumental shuffle as the closer?!? The hell.

But elsewhere, it's a great album, and a perfect close to the era of underground British goth in the 1980's. Best section on the album? Tracks 8-11: An anthemic Scottish-sounding Celtic ballad--kind of like Enya's "On Your Shore"--to raise the proverbial roof to "heaven," as it were, a TOTALLY cool rock and roll guitar-wanking instrumental ("Bitter," far and away the best song on the album--then, just to catch our breath before the centerpiece, a baby-sound-effect-filled segue, and then the grand centerpiece, "Several Times." Takes me breath away, it does.

And the album just ebbs and flows perfectly until after the epic "Dreams Are Like Water", then kinda farts on the last two tracks. But STILL! An A for effort.

I'd say it's about exactly as good as Filligree and Shadow. Now to inspect It'll End in Tears. The only TMC album, coincidentally, that gets an actual review on Amazon.com.

In conclusion, Mandy Moore's "Split Chick" is a weird, groovy track. Shoulda been a hit. This band's not too shabby, either.