"About A Fish" vs. "Have You Fed The Boy?"

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I'm rather fond of The Hour Of Bewilderbeast but when the About A Boy soundtrack album came out I decided to pass and wait for the "proper" album, based on nothing better than a (possibly irrational) predisposition to be suspicious of soundtrack albums.

Now Q (in their "50 Best Albums Of 2002") are trying to tell me that About A Boy is the superior of Mr Gough's 2 album releases this year....

Say it ain't so, Joe!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 November 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm also extremely fond of Tindersticks but have never picked up either Nenette Et Boni or Trouble Every Day based on the same instinctive knee-jerk - have I got this wrong too?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 November 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The new BDB album is supremely irritating, and this is coming from a (now former, I s'pose) fan. Too many chuggingly overproduced Elliot Smith Dreamworks-esque mid-tempo things and not enough swoony waltzy acoustic ballads for my liking.

It's a shame because I loved Bewilderbeast and thought that You Were Right was a great pop single, but nothing else stands up to it.

About A Boy was arse, too.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

adding a pop sheen aint always a bad thing. but i didnt sense quite as much emotion in these two as in the debut.

anyway he never could write lyrics.

― alistair, Friday, 8 November 2002 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Q (in their "50 Best Albums Of 2002")
fuck! it's not out already is it? fuck! please please nobody start a thread about it

― zebedee, Friday, 8 November 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm probably alone (as usual), but I like HYFTF a lot. I have no problem with the production sheen... Gough's songwriting is what draws me in.

― Aaron W, Friday, 8 November 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I've discovered after getting the new one that my liking of BDB was based on the slightly amateurish air on Bewilderbeest. It seemed slightly stumbling and had great charm. On the whole it was lovely.

Now he has gone with the full production job the new album is just dull. I'm sure it can't just be down to the production but also to a lack of interesting songs. Plus the bigger production seems to make forgiving the lyrics much more difficult.

I didn't get the soundtrack either although I liked both singles from it.

― mms (mms), Friday, 8 November 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Osborne: You were right on the Tindersticks soundtracks. Stick to the albums.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Friday, 8 November 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

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