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El Rey
Artist : The Wedding Present
List Price : $30.49 USD
ProductGroup: Music
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Avg. Customer Rating :  (5 reviews)
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Customer Reviews for El Rey
Stuck in Neutral
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I've been a fan of TWP going all the way back to George Best. Seamonsters was a high point, so this one being recorded by Steve Albini perhaps gave me inflated hopes. But there is no new ground tread here, and little to inspire in the way the old ground is covered.
Gedge's lyrics used to be endearing, as he always seemed on the wrong end of a relationship gone bad and we could feel for him even in his bitterness. Then with Cinerama he became something of the happy womanizer and frankly hard to like (his two main themes seemed to be, "She cheated on me and it feels awful" and, "I cheated on her and it feels great," with no apparent sense of contradiction). Finally I thought perhaps he'd grown up when he gave us these lines in the lovely closer to Cinerama's last album: "I was jealous and mean, you were fragrant and flirty / It's strange just how innocent it all looks today / We tried to imagine being together at thirty / but that always seemed such a long way away." This sounded like an adult. But now he's regressed to, "And that's when I pretend that I don't have a girlfriend." Where are we now, high school? There are other embarrassing clunker lines like this, and I agree with the comment about, "No soup for you." Sheesh.
I still like them, and there are some good musical moments here, but it's very far from their best.
Customer Reviews for El Rey Cd
classic wedding present anyone?
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the other reviewers talk about the dry albini sound as if it's a loss??? this album rocks, and for me that dry detached and damped albini sound is what the wedding present have been about when they hit their mark. these songs are not just about attitude - that wonderful dischordant out-of-tune pop guitaring is back at last! thank you david for this killer album - a collection of classic tracks. buy this now. you will love it.
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