Is anyone else out there desperately yearning for an instrumental/dub
version of the latest Portishead album? I've like the group in the past,
but Beth Gibbons' vocals/lyricwriting are getting seriously tired!! I find
myself digging the instrumental breaks to no end, but every time she
returns to moan about her life, I cringe. This is exactly the reason why
my Smiths LPs have stayed on the shelf since I was eighteen. Guess I'll
have to console myself with "Cowboys (Instrumental)."
-------- Sigh (but I'm still not as depressed as some out there).
-------- John Bush.
BTW: I caught the first Dot Records artist to appear on MTV a week or so
ago. Yes, the mighty Doktor Kosmos appeared (on M2, actually) with
"Holiday," from his cheesier-than-thou =Cocktail= album (and no, it's not
worth it; this makes Perrey-Kingsley, the Cardigans, Komeda -- even the
stinkiest lounge compilation ever put out -- smell like pure roses).