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Indeed, after reading Poletti's review... Casey Jones is a joke in comparison...

@majortom79...if I'm not mistaken, when you forget to insert a rating, the review is simply published without a score... and giving three stars to an album that one should "have at all costs" (according to the reviewer himself) just doesn't make any sense. The review is nice but quite academic; it doesn't offer anything new or interesting and could be suitable just for someone who doesn't even know who the Velvet Underground are. On a site like Debaser, where more or less everyone has or at least knows this album, it wasn't particularly necessary...

WOW!!! This review is amazing... I listened to her a while ago and I really liked her, what a voice... live she's extraordinary (seen on YouTube)!

I can't stand this! And in my opinion, high is a (terrible) copy of high and dry by Radiohead... I find it too annoying to judge it impartially.

Wow, of course you’re a real expert on bulls... when I have doubts, I’ll know who to turn to!!! Beenie's lost the sunset but that's ok... it could mean a lot of things... but that final "but that's ok" confirms your first interpretation. I think we can close the case!

Am I the only one who finds the covers of "Femme Fatale" and "Hallelujah" absolutely indecent? There's a difference between a personal reinterpretation and just improvising as if you were singing with the church choir. Sorry for the venting, Hypnosphere, but when I listened to them, they really bothered me, I can't help it. However, the review is excellent and you write really well. The album, aside from the two covers, is nice but not much more, with once-good songs (like "Gift") rearranged in a harmless and predictable way. For me, his best album is "Asile's World," at least there he showed some ambition. Now it's unclassified.

Ah, I didn't know Beenie's story... I wonder what "Beenie lost the sunset" means then... Do you know anything more about this Beenie? Anyway, I'm glad to have been of help ;-)

I wanted to write "remarried after the divorce"...

Okay, I'll give it a try too, even though deciphering Tori's lyrics has never been my strong suit. It seems to me that the album was born after the end of the relationship with Eric Rosse (I hope I'm not mistaken), so I've always thought that BFP was somehow entirely influenced by that event. Even Father Lucifer, which, in my opinion, could describe the process of overcoming a breakup. A bit like you say, the overcoming (or acceptance) of pain, only that in my view, that pain has a precise connotation. The second part is so cryptic that one could really let themselves dive into a flood of interpretations. I've also thought that that baby in his comatose state could refer (in an extremely implicit and indirect way) to one of the miscarriages she had already experienced (if I'm not mistaken, she had two in '96)... as if to say that she has also overcome that ("Everyday's my wedding day Though baby's still in his comatose state"), rejecting the pain in a nearly childish manner ("everyday's my wedding day") and in a certain sense, cathartic... But I think about it a bit and I believe it’s a somewhat forced reinterpretation (better than Joevanny's). I get a bit lost in the Easter egg part - in my opinion, that part is dreamlike, a stream of consciousness that even she isn't really able to decipher ("comatose," "state," "easter," "just" - she probably chose those words based on how similar their sounds are, like an alliteration). Joe and Marilyn are Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe: Joe periodically brought flowers to Marilyn's grave, even though she had already remarried after the divorce (I think she remarried Arthur Miller). That line could relate back to the romantic theme I mentioned earlier (Tori wonders IF Joe brought flowers to Marilyn, but she could also be asking WHY he did it) and could be a bitter reflection on the transience of relationships and the mistakes made in love... but this might be more of a forced interpretation than an excessive simplification of the lyrics...

Surely... I haven't listened to this one yet, but the previous ones all seem excellent to me and (very rare case) of consistently good quality. Very good review, with a few (forgivable) oversights.