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Hey I was a fan of Poison Season from day one. Ranked it higher on my year-end list than anyone else here.
Sometime last year, I discovered that the original name for “The Wild Ones” (one of the great English-language ballads of the last 100 years or so) was “Ken.” I had an epiphany, I was physically struck by this information. In an attempt to hold on to this feeling, I decided to lift the original title of that song and use it for my own purposes. It’s unclear to me what that purpose is, or what the connection is. I was not thinking about Suede when making this record. I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era. Those were the years when music first really came at me like a sickness, I had it bad. Maybe “The Wild Ones” speaks to that feeling, probably why Suede made no sense in America. I think “ken” also means “to know.”
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There's enough New Order worship in the world already.
Shit, I figured you were really into Streethawk. That's one of his most beloved albums. It and This Night are definitely among my favorites. Your Blues is blah with a kind of awkward synthpop influence, but it has those great lyrics. Always the lyrics with Bejar.I mean, that's pretty much his entire discography haha. I've not heard This Night or Your Blues, and Streethawk is so fucking esoteric and dense that it's kind of hard to know how I actually feel about it, but otherwise I'd agree.
And it's definitely not bad or terrible, completely fine album to have on in the background, it's just quite pedestrian and his music has always been better than that.