Label: Rykodisc
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 014431032721
EAN: 0014431032721
ASIN: B0000009PV
Release Date: 1995-10-03
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Artist: Lloyd Cole
Label: Rykodisc Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 014431032721 EAN: 0014431032721 ASIN: B0000009PV Release Date: 1995-10-03 |
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No one begrudged Lloyd Cole for breaking up his great British pop band the Commotions and moving to New York to make American rock, although his subsequent solo records appeared to stray further and further from the facile songwriting that had early on made Cole so cherished. With this 1995 set, however, Cole settled back into doing what he does best, offering his best music since the Commotions' debut, Rattlesnakes, over a decade ago. <I>Love Story</I> returns to the colorful neobeat, English-major lyric style Cole developed as a young postgrad, though his writing is tempered now with the graceful maturity that graying hair, a marriage, and a child inevitably bring. Back are proper nouns, pop culture references, and clever quotes ("Penny walked in with that 'Love in Vain' look, said 'Every last man should be hanging from a meat hook'"), plus a subtle beauty in even his most basic lines ("She loves you best/And I love her nonetheless"). Restored as well are the tender accompaniments of acoustic guitar strums and tasteful lead lines, with a moody backdrop of light keys and strings. Like the smartest of love stories, the music is happy and sad, whimsical and doleful, never tired and often touching. <I>--Roni Sarig</I>Customer Reviews:
Most Overlooked Artist for the Last Twenty Years.......2006-11-04
Music that can't be contained on a simple, plastic disc........2004-01-01
I fell in love with the CD in a slowly-progressive manner similar to the way innocent crushes are formed. To say that I was overwhelmed with admiration from the beginning wouldn't be accurate. Rather, I casually figured this was an album to keep around and spend some time with in the future if the mood seemed right. Soon, I found myself spending more and more time with "Love Story" and before long, there came that pivotal moment in many a CD's lifetime when I "heard" the album for the first time. That's when my devotion to "Love Story" and, more broadly, to Lloyd Cole's music in general, emerged.
After more recent purchases of Cole's though, I can confidently say that "Love Story" is more the exception to his style, than the rule. Certainly, familiarizing one's self with Lloyd Cole by means of "Love Story" is like being introduced to U2 with the "Pop" album. It simply wasn't a portrayal of the past, and this, I believe, is what made some longtime fans look elsewhere, while simultaneously turning some window shoppers like me into dedicated listeners. Where much of Cole's previous projects are guitar-driven, bold works only sparsely tempered by the occasional reflective serenade, "Love Story" is quite the polar opposite. From beginning to end, this is a nocturnal delight, blatantly engineered for the immediate pre-dawn hours. Which is not to assert that this is music to sleep to. On the contrary, the vast majority of these songs are gently melodic, lushly acoustic, and delicately formed within the womb of Cole's undeniable emotion; this disc belongs in your insomnia first-aid kit, next to Everything But The Girl's "Amplified Heart."
Probably his best.......2002-01-09
COLE'S BEST WORK TO DATE.......2001-01-11
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