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Old 03-24-2009, 08:13 AM   #71 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Bulldog View Post
It's a good 'un ain't it? I wouldn't call it a classic, because the man's done much better, particularly when he came into his own as a writer some years down the line. Get Happy, Trust, Imperial Bedroom and Spike are the bare necessities for me - muchly under-appreciated my most music-lovers, and it's a damn shame too.
I would contest that, the songwriting on My Aim Is True is sharp as a razor, it's a lot less flabby than Get Happy!, which always seemed a bit rushed to me. I know you aren't big on the first two albums because they are the most popular and I agree Trust, I.B. and Spike etc are criminally underexposed) but I think they still measure up as masterful new wave/punk.

Hopefully anybody that has a rudimentary knowledge of the EC 'legacy edition' albums will be taking note and checking out some of those 80's classics.

Downloading some of the samplers btw
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