2004-02-24
Australian musician Paul Kelly delivers two discs worth of analysis about love and relationships. Although this all starts out and ends with instrumentals, the rest of the collection moves from folk-based love triangle to mopey rocker to pop-sounding plea and back again.
Call it a little Thesaurus of the Heart from Down Under.
Some songs are poetic, a few are sappy; some are brazen, others are thoughtful. Sounds like an attempt to write the Story of Love.
Did he succeed?
Give it a listen.
SHOCKING EDISON
Scientific Curiosity
PATTI SMITH
OUTSIDE SOCIETY
WILL HOGE
Even If It Breaks Your Heart
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
The Age of the Understatement
Shawn Lee / Various
- Under the Sun
JOE STRUMMER
The Future Is Unwritten
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