Date yourself for a while
Easy to dispense with: I haven't found anything quite as thrilling to me as "Lazy Line Painter Jane." Still, a few clicks through a Monica Queen YouTube search yields lovely, quaking results. To return to the Belle & Sebastian though, one sure sign of a great artist (I mean musical but maybe the rule can be extrapolated inter-medium) is an ability to get odd, compelling, often freer and singular performances from their collaborators – see, for example, Chief Keef on Hold My Liquor" or the whole of Pussy Cats. I always feel mild disappointment upon finding nothing elsewhere in their catalog that's quite as gripping as what is often my introduction to an artist. Which is certainly my problem. Another error: imagining that the performances that captivate me are Stuart Murdoch's or Kanye West's or John Lennon's doing alone or even for the most part, as if Monica Queen or Chief Keef or Harry Nilson aren't the ones I'm hearing, the ones actually making the sound.
Maybe I'm being excessively fair.
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