I always thought that sometime a band should do a whole, good record and just sit on it - how cool would it be if, from the hazy mists of time, there came forth a prime-period album by, say, XTC or REM (when still good) and it just went ker-plop!, fell from the sky into one's lap?
Well, I saw that there was a new Prefab Sprout (!) record and tried to keep my momentary gasps/whoops of joy from elongating to a yawn. But, as it turns out, Paddy is now going deaf as well as blind (which is interesting, now that I think, because once they had Mr Wonder play harmonica on a track!) and, really, how good could a record called Let's Save the World With Music really be, anyway?
Well, as it turns out, the answer is "pretty fuckin' great," because this was actually a record made in 1992 (!) or so, demos for a follow-up to Jordan: The Comeback. The good news that the songs are stellar is made even better by the fact that the Inevitable White-Dork Rap (as was de riguer [sp?] then) comes in the fist seconds of the first track, never to return!
It makes me wonder what else Mr McAloon is hiding.
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