AHH. Tootsie Roll. Brings back a good memory from about 10 years ago when that song was popular. Every time they played this song at the bar I hung out in the girls would stand up on their chairs and start dancing. It was another of life's cheap thrills to have a hot chick shakin' her booty in your face if you were standing near them. And being the concerned and safety minded citizen that I am, I would on occasion have to reach up to steady a girl so she wouldn't fall off the chair.
This post has been edited by Mark.: 19 August 2013 - 03:59 AM
This album is good. After watching live performances of new songs I had almost no doubts that this is going to be good.
"Everything" is bad, "Running" could have been much better without those weird guitars, really unnecessary intro track, but the rest of songs are really good, some of them are even amazing (Satellite, Copy Of A, Came Back Haunted which I didn't really like at first, Various Methods of Escape, I Would For You, Find My Way, In Two). Production really shines here. Lyrics are not that good to be fair, but overall, Hesitation Marks is definitley good, even great. It's not TRs best work, but it's still great. Approved
My favourite FF song in a an extended live version; pretty sloppy performance though and that break in the middle goes nowhere, in stead of creating tension it just robs the song of momentum.
Even though I started listening to Peter Gabriel and Marillion in the eighties, I've still heard very little of pre-Collins Genesis.
It's easy to notice the influence on early Fish-era Marillion now (and PG's first solo album).
Gabriel had such a mighty voice; grand, passionate and containing a strange sort of claustrophobic intimacy only inches away from hermetic madness.