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This singer's voice is obviously an acquired taste, but after awhile it works, and you have several strong songs, starting with the heavily-distorted title song *****, with a catchy bending riff. "Emily Jean Stock"**** is much more orch-pop. "Mama Won't You Keep...." is similar. "Love Song No 7"**** is a pleading piano ballad, but the single "Satan Said Dance"**** is the disco party. "Goodbye To The Mother And The Cover" returns to melancholy with a Japanese-sounding arpeggiated part. "Yankee Go Home" more straight rock, though a drunken-stagger of a song, and in 3. "Underwater (You And Me)**** is 60's pop, and the record ends strong as it began with "Five Easy Pieces"*****, sung as if coming across the hills, which sounds corny, but it so well-constructed I ignore the fact the the vocal melody is pretty much one note - most of the time.
This singer's voice is obviously an acquired taste, but after awhile it works, and you have several strong songs, starting with the heavily-distorted title song *****, with a catchy bending riff. "Emily Jean Stock"**** is much more orch-pop. "Mama Won't You Keep...." is similar. "Love Song No 7"**** is a pleading piano ballad, but the single "Satan Said Dance"**** is the disco party. "Goodbye To The Mother And The Cover" returns to melancholy with a Japanese-sounding arpeggiated part. "Yankee Go Home" more straight rock, though a drunken-stagger of a song, and in 3. "Underwater (You And Me)**** is 60's pop, and the record ends strong as it began with "Five Easy Pieces"*****, sung as if coming across the hills, which sounds corny, but it so well-constructed I ignore the fact the the vocal melody is pretty much one note - most of the time.
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