Mad As Snow?????

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From the songs that changed your life thread. This one changed mine completely. Is this a beautiful song or what?

― Poops McGee, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about Kevan's song generator.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoops! Here it is.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'all talking about the Kitchens of Distinction, Poops? Very good taste there. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Death of Cool was just an amazing album. Still is.

― Poops McGee, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Death of Cool' is undeniably one of the finest albums of the 90s. While I wouldn't pick "Mad As Snow" for my personal favorite track (it seems almost too overwrought and too much like shoegazer formula; perhaps a better fit on 'Strange Free World'), I certainly can't blame you for worshipping at its guitar-effects pedals though. For me, it was always "Gone World Gone," though I love the whole album really. // "When Marilyn Monroe woke up in heaven..." : pure bliss.

― Tim DiGravina, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i love smiling and can't trust the waves. the sax is nice.

― Poops McGee, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mad As Snow is possibly the most beautiful song ever commited to tape.........

― Baxter Wingnut, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damm i thought Snow got pissed off that no one took him seriously.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's what I was thinking this thread was about, too. Maybe it's just a Canadian reaction. Oh well, carry on, folx!

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ick! "Gone World Gone" is the one track I wish could be magically excised from that record, in which case I might go so far as to say it's better than Loveless.

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, 'Death of Cool' is a really fine album - I just got into it about a year ago. I must say, though, that one song with the soprano sax really grates... It's a tricky instrument - play it too rough and it sounds like a dying duck; play it too smooth (as is usually the case, and this song is no exception) and it sounds like Sir Gorelick.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ick to "Gone World Gone"? That's blasphemy in some circles.

― Tim DiGravina, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not as much as the second part of the sentence!!!

― Clarke B., Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I was being deliberately shocking with the second part, but then again it depends upon how you want to conceive of the word "better." Death of Cool is a probably only better in the limited sense of having a textual structure that's deeper and airier and more coherent, i.e. Loveless has more to say about sound whereas Death of Cool has more to say about character and narrative and such, which I suppose makes the latter a better as a particular sort of pop record.

― Nitsuh, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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