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On 22/07/2003 andrew said: "it's just this razor, he's left it on your shelf, I'll throw it out myself."
So I went to New York and came back with very little in the way of new Albums, but I finally got around to listening to The Wedding Present's newly remastered Bizarro, and fuck me this is great great great. The songs are all bitterness, and jangle, and David Gedge's voice, which was what always pissed me off about them. 10 years later, it sounds great.
The songs themselves are about as varied as indiepop 89 was, which isn't very (about 5 minutes into Take Me! the jangle drops away leaving only the backing, and fuck me it sounds like Status Quo).
It's a measure of how much I enjoy the sound that, although they can clearly get in and get out with no messing (Crushed and Thanks are both under three minutes), I don't mind when they jsut lose the run of themselves (The aforementioned Take Me! is over nine minutes, and there are a couple more over five minutes). The cool thing about the long songs is that it's clearly just luxuriating in the sounds they're making: There's no words on any of them past about three minutes in.
The bonus material includes the single version of Brassneck (their first Albini track!) and the B-sides, including a fantastic version of It's Not Unusual. Next stop is probably Seamonsters, though I might get the Hit Parade collections of singles that they released one per month in 1992. I always thought that was a brilliant idea.