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The Iron Curtain stopped me from leaving.
> * Iron Curtain - wowee. When she wailed, this song ROCKED. Funny
> but it's one of the few songs I have little use for on the CD.
Iron Curtain is the song that hooked me. I bought TWHF first, and it took
awhile for me to get into it. I'd heard it plenty through Zena. I tend to
like rock first because of the music, and that wierd grunting bassline sort
of got me. But the lyrics, for whatever reason (I don't know that I'd
attribute it to providence) matched up with my own feelings at the time,
and I started to dig it.
And then I got Patience.
> Etc. Whatever/Poughkeepsie. Moving the first time or two
> live, but after that they fell into the boring category for me.
I am, however, way with you on this one. Etc. Whatever is so far from
compelling to me. I think it's the line "keeping oceans within reach /
whatever private oceans we can conjure up for free." I can't truck with
that.
I personally experienced my "live" ecstasy when they played "And Can It Be"
for the A&R reps at Schuba's in Chicago last year. When the music swells
in the chorus ("...I would know/experience the casualty of your love.."),
it really gets me.
jnf
(ps - my other live ecstasy last year was Jonathan Richman pulling out
"Velvet Underground" at the Double Door. He did that Lou Reed impression
and it was... cool.)
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