Unless "get a pass" refers to critical acclaim, not to popular appeal.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
for your love was a big hit!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of agree on Nick Cave, tho, not so much as "he gets a free pass" as his badass history let him get away with a lot of balladeering
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
it was their biggest u.s. hit by far. and its kinda why clapton left the group. he didn't want to be a "pop" star.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
I love the idea that Nick Cave is just "former Birthday Party frontman Nick Cave". That's like saying Neil Young is best known as an ex-member of Buffalo Springfield.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
surely anagram, you'd mention Pete Hammill there?
mos def. the three post-reunion albums all sound like PH-plus-organ to me (or PH-plus-organ-and-sax in the case of Present) in a way that the 70s albums certainly don't.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
I thought Jeff Beck played on "For Your Love", probably because it sounds more pop and less blues than most Clapton-era Yardbirds. My mistake, sorry.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
also I'd say the 3 Hammill albums after Pawn Hearts seemed to hint at what was to come with Godbluff
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
I know he has his fans, but ... Bob Mould.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
we've already been down the mould route up top.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link