Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert (1979)

1. Boogie Shoes

2. My Rival

3. Hey! Little Child

4. Hook or Crook

5. I've Had It

6. Rock Hard

7. Girl After Girl

8. Waltz Across Texas

9. Alligator Man

10. Like Flies on Sherbert

11. No More The Moon Shine On Lorena

A strange album from Alex Chilton, master of perfect pop songs. Intentionally terrible in every way: production, musicianship, what is and isn't being recorded. I'm unsure whether he's deconstructing and leaving imperfect rock & roll like Neil Young did on Tonight's the Night to expose a song's constituents and capture the artist's anguish, or whether he's being chaotic and punk rock just for the sake of it. Either way I like it. True, nobody would care about Like Flies on Sherbert if it didn't have someone like Chilton behind it, but it's interesting because it's someone like Chilton being so unlistenably amateurish

B+

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Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely (1976)

Where the artist intends for their songs to be throw-away, writing an album of disposable hooks so good they become quite the opposite: Electric Warrior, #1 Record, Cheap Trick at Budokan, Ramones, Sincerely

You hear I'm On Fire and think how's he gonna do that again? and then the little turns in Could Be Love declare YOU ARE IN THE HANDS OF A MASTER OF DISPOSABLE HOOKS, YOU CANNOT FUCK WITH ME

I'm Losing You is just delightful and if you can make it to TV, you'll probably forgive him for it

B+

delightful!
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