Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:01:51 -0500 From: "Jordan Clifford" <GrooveHolmes394 at hotmail dot com> Subject: song comparisons
>>Schizoid Man (Facts of Life) and Cat Food/Elephant Talk/Dinosaur (Happy With)
Can you really compare these new songs with those old ones? You picked my 2 least favorite songs on the new album and compared them with some of my favorite songs ever.
First of all, Facts Of Life is NOTHING like Schiziod Man. I don't mean to sound angry or degrading, its just that Schizoid Man was a landmark song, while Facts Of Life is not only not like it in structure or sound, but is no where near as good.
and Happy With.. is good, I liked it when I first heard it and for KC doing what seems to be a satire on the formulas of modern rock songs, it's a very good modern rock song and is both funny and catchy. I could see you comparing it to Cat Food, as they are both "That song" on an album otherwise comprised of mostly classic KC type material.. the pop type song, or whatever. But both Discipline and Thrak are filled with other songs like Elephant Talk and Dinosaur (more so with Discipline), so I've never thought of those as "that song".
I think TPTB and its contents are easily similar to other KC works, but I just can't accept that Facts of Life is compared with something like 21CSM and Happy with Elephant Talk.