Re: (TV) Tom Verlaine's great but unavailable songs -- The Miller's Tale 2?

["Joe Thornton" <joe.thornton@gmx.net>]

Mike e wrote:
> AAAARRRGGGHH! Dissolve/Reveal and Rotation before "Present Arrived" and
the
> studio versions of "Postcard from Waterloo" and "Clear it Away"?! As much
as
> I like the tracks from Cover, they are but fluff pieces compared to the
> intensity of the latter tracks. Sure you can't play them at a party (well
> maybe "Postcard" if you can stand the snickers) but playing these tunes in
> the privacy of your own home is like an E-ride for your ears.

Fluff pieces? Correction: They are masterpieces. Just because they don't
have the "power chords" of earlier albums doesn't mean that those songs lack
quality. With Cover, Tom was moving into new territory, and he did it very
well. There's a light touch there, and it's incredibly sensitive and
beautiful. The complexity of the music is disguised, almost dissolved.
"Dissolve/Reveal" in particular has so much musical inventiveness, building
up right through the song, that I rate it among Tom's very best.

"Present Arrived", "Postcard from Waterloo" and "Clear it Away"?! I'll allow
that I might be dismissing them too readily, and that there's a case for The
Miller's Tale 2 to have a second CD. But I'm convinced that the quality
would suffer, that the second CD would come across as "for completists".

Mike, would you find fault with "The Scientist", "The Funniest Thing", "1880
Or So", "Rhyme", "This Tune", etc, for lack of "intensity"?

--JoeT
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