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Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

Lee Redfern — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:39:53 -0000

Great article on a very under appreciated album.

Btw "Screwed the pooch"?????

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

Serge Thorn — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:29:08 -0000

Hi Rock, why is your website suddenly not accessible?

Warm regards

Serge

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

rock smith — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:01:57 -0000

hi-for an idiots guide to Prefab Sprout check http://tincanpot.blogspot.com/
cheers -rock smith

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

Harry — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:53:51 -0000

The Talking Heads' "Nothing But Flowers" also uses the word "agriculture".

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

WHarrisBullzEye — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:54:55 -0000

But it's an electro-hoedown, Jack! AN ELECTRO-HOEDOWN!!!

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

jack — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:49:45 -0000

The man who wrote and sang "Couldn't Bear to Be Special" will always get an open-minded listen from me to anything he chooses to release in the future. I love "Cowboy Dreams" but yeah, the one time "Farmyard Cat" came up when the iPod was in shuffle mode, I had to skip ahead. Sorry, Paddy!

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

Matt_G — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:00:15 -0000

And I thought John Cale's 'Hanky Panky Nohow' was the only song lyric to include the word "agriculture".... "Agricultural" is even more impressive, what with the extra syllable and all...

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

jefito — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:42:50 -0000

Conversely, Eddie Money's "Ready Eddie" probably deserved far worse.

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

WHarrisBullzEye — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:40:54 -0000

Or, God forbid, ending up on CMC!

I can't speak to everyone who was ever signed to that label, but I will say that The Fixx deserved a damned sight better for their "Elemental" album than what they got.

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

Andrew Thomas — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:28:56 -0000

It's great to see some blogospheric Sprout-love. At one time, I considered writing an "idiot's guide" type thing about them, but never got around to it. Excellent work.

Incidentally, this is one of the few music items I've come across on Amazon whose reviews are literally all over the place: the graph that shows number of ratings is practically straight from 5 stars down to one. Divisive? Just a bit.

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

DwDunphy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:23:20 -0000

Something that really seems to do harm to a 'veteran' band's rep is to wind up on an oldies-indie: an independent label that snags up older acts and prays for built-in fan sales. Often, the material on those albums isn't bad at all, and sometimes it's quite good... but the handicap of being on the former Sanctuary or Castle labels seemed to indicate decrepitude.

Now, having said all that, none of this makes Operation Mindcrime 2 any better.

Re: Hooks ‘N’ You: Prefab Sprout, “The Gunman and Other Stories”

jefito — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:04:36 -0000

Another terrific post, Will. Thanks!