I Have Never Listened To The Avocado Album

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Isn't it bizarre that Mike also wrote Faithfull, arguably the band's best song?
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cutuphalfdead wrote:Isn't it bizarre that Mike also wrote Faithfull, arguably the band's best song?
yeah but wasn't he on dr*gs then?
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cutuphalfdead wrote:Isn't it bizarre that Mike also wrote Faithfull, arguably the band's best song?

They probably felt bad for him and included it.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Isn't it bizarre that Mike also wrote Faithfull, arguably the band's best song?
yeah but wasn't he on dr*gs then?
Probably.
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stip wrote:
Django Butterworth wrote:I guess to me there are a lot of other songs I'd rather have omitted from records other than Inside Job.

I don't think it's nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
I'd rather listen to Inside Job than Unemployable, and possibly gone and/or big wave.

But I REALLY wish Cold Confession had made the record instead of one of those.

You mean that really boring out take that really doesn't go anywhere?
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Isn't it bizarre that Mike also wrote Faithfull, arguably the band's best song?
yeah but wasn't he on dr*gs then?
Probably.
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stip wrote:
Django Butterworth wrote:I guess to me there are a lot of other songs I'd rather have omitted from records other than Inside Job.

I don't think it's nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
I'd rather listen to Inside Job than Unemployable, and possibly gone and/or big wave.

But I REALLY wish Cold Confession had made the record instead of one of those.
Cold Confession sounds like it could have fit in on the back half of the album nicely with Army Reserve.
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darth_vedder wrote:
stip wrote:
Django Butterworth wrote:I guess to me there are a lot of other songs I'd rather have omitted from records other than Inside Job.

I don't think it's nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
I'd rather listen to Inside Job than Unemployable, and possibly gone and/or big wave.

But I REALLY wish Cold Confession had made the record instead of one of those.
Cold Confession sounds like it could have fit in on the back half of the album nicely with Army Reserve.


Cold Confession sounds like it wound up right where it should have. On the cut pile.

There, I fixed it for you.
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Django Butterworth wrote:
darth_vedder wrote:
stip wrote:
Django Butterworth wrote:I guess to me there are a lot of other songs I'd rather have omitted from records other than Inside Job.

I don't think it's nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
I'd rather listen to Inside Job than Unemployable, and possibly gone and/or big wave.

But I REALLY wish Cold Confession had made the record instead of one of those.
Cold Confession sounds like it could have fit in on the back half of the album nicely with Army Reserve.


Cold Confession sounds like it wound up right where it should have. On the cut pile.

There, I fixed it for you.
It is a little boring but it has some pretty interesting parts, especially with speaker splits between the guitars. I hear more potential in it than I do the final version of Inside Job.
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Django Butterworth wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Isn't it bizarre that Mike also wrote Faithfull, arguably the band's best song?

They probably felt bad for him and included it.
I enjoyed this post.

I think Mike is the writer I like the least, bracketing Given to Fly and Mind Your Manners. What else has he written solo?
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I am fairly sure Mike didn't write the words to "Faithfull." No small asterisk there.
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Those are the only one's I can think of.
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Ohh, I do love those last two songs. Present Tense is good too. I need to revise my opinion

(although FoN is great despite Mike's writing)
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Did he write Cready Stomp?
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that seems unlikely
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I believe he wrote everything for Last Soldier, as well, which is a really nice song.
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