RE: (TV) Rating the TV albums/Nerve

[Jesse Hochstadt <Jesse_Hochstadt@brown.edu>]

At 3:52 PM -0400 4/25/01,Leo wrote:

> Yes, facinating how one person's food is another person's poison: 
> Jesse wrote:  "...but others strike me as too precious (always a 
> direction Tom veered perilously close to). Frankly, the way Tom 
> sings the opening couplet on "Without a Word" verges on self-parody 
> for me."
>
> Funny how what one person's finds too precious another [me] finds 
> terribly romantic and beautiful.  Do you also find the guitar solo 
> at the song's end precious and wimpy?

I don't know; I haven't listened to the record recently. And I 
wouldn't say "poison," more along the lines of cotton candy. (By the 
way, it isn't the lyric that bothers me; it's the way Tom's voice 
breaks on "lies" and "eyes" [going from memory here].)

>  >Always a direction Tom veered perilously close to)  
>
> Why must all his music be raveup rockers; TV's not a one-dimensional 
> musician, he has his poetic side too--that's what makes him so great.

Didn't you read my comment on how much I loved "Song"? There's plenty 
of room in my tastes for Tom's softer, dreamier side. It's just that 
for me, he occasionally steps over an invisible line. That's why I 
wrote that he "veers perilously close to" precious at times; when he 
doesn't pass that line, he's artful. Obviously you and I have a 
different sense of that boundary, but that's OK; to each his own.

I might have been a little hyperbolic in stressing the differences I 
perceive among Tom's albums. I certainly don't despise any of them 
(unlike how some people appear to feel about Warm & Cool!), and I'm 
sure will listen again, with enjoyment, to The Wonder at some point. 
But I'll reach for Flash Light far more often.

- Jesse
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