This album has some great moments. Two of my favorite
songs are right next to each other: Ride My
Llama/Pocahontas. Ride My Llama has a very romantic
atmosphere to it. I always have visions of walking in
a forest with my loved one and listening to this song.
The music in Pocahontas is also quite beautiful,
which adds a poignancy to the tragic lyrics. The song
Sail Away has a particularly memorable line in "Where
the people are the real stars/for the rest of their
lives"
Welfare Mothers from side two is the song that really
gets to me. That song just cranks on a musical level.
I just love that groove he gets into. I have friends
who hate the lyrics, saying they are sexist, and I can
understand that perspective, but still, I love the
music. Also, I love the backing vocals on the song
Powderfinger. When they sing "Ooooh Oooooh" in the
background it sounds haunting, like voices calling out
from some forgotten time. I just love that.
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