Following his previous two excursions into music reviews, Scott asked if he could “listen to some more music and talk about it”. After Tubular Bells and Screamadelica, we took a slightly different approach this time round: I asked Scott to randomly choose a CD from my collection. And the ‘lucky winners’ were American all-female alt-country ensemble Hazeldine and their acclaimed 2001 album Double Back. If Scott likes this, I’ll eat my Stetson…
Scott's drawing of the album cover...
...and the real cover - spot the difference!
Why did you choose this?
Scott: I just thought the cover looked good and black and white.
What do you think it’ll sound like?
Scott: Maybe a little bit slow and…
Helen: Like a trumpet.
Scott: Don’t be silly.
Track one – When You Sleep
Scott: This is what I was expecting – pretty slow. Picking up a little bit of speed. Once talking – blah blah blah.
Helen: More like bells.
Scott: I’m still thinking it’s talking. I thought it sounded a little bit boring.
Track two – Valentine
Scott: Quite slow with also some talking. Still more slow talking. Next chapter!
Track three – Body and Soul
Scott: Come on now – come on now, do some talking…. A sort of cowboy sort of music.
Track four – Sunset Strip
Scott: Oh yes – talking all that etc etc.
Track five – Miss Ordinary
Scott: That’s slow music talking – the same.
Track six – Smaller
Helen: That sounds like a guitar. A guitar!
Track seven – Fletcher’s Bar
Scott: Okay, a little bit boring. Sounds like guitar.
Helen: Guitar!
Scott: But… But… There’s going to be talking. Yeah, really.
Track eight – Broken Glass
Scott: Well, a sort of cowboy talking. Next chapter!
Track nine – Double Back
Scott: Just the boring slow slow slow… boring… slow…
Track 10 – Twisted
Scott: BUT THEN BORING SLOW! But then boring slow talking – now some talking…
Track 11 – Say Goodbye
Scott: Oh come on! That’s cool! Give me some! Cool! That’s really cool, give me some of that.
Track 12 – My Lady
Scott: Boring slow music.
Track 13 – Rostock
Scott: The same boring music. Come on, that’s cool – give me some! There’s the talking in the background. Yes, it’s very very boring talking in the background – most boring talking in the background. Next next next next.
That was the last track.
Scott: Can we watch a DVD now?
What did you think of that?
Scott: Don’t add in that thing about the DVD, okay? It was good, but too much talking.
Marks out of 10?
Scott: Seven.
That seems quite high, you didn’t seem to like it.
Scott: I didn’t like it, I made it lose three points because of the talking. It usually two, but I made it lose three because it was especially slow.
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