Aching Just To Fall
The first Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album I ever heard was Easy Pieces , their unloved middle-child. It's not as good as Rattlesnakes . That's a classic album, potentially one of the strongest debut albums ever. You don't get too many Perfect Skin s in a career. Easy Pieces is not the best Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album, but it is my favourite. The band hate it. Isn't it always so disappointing when bands hate the things they've done that you love. I remember Kurt Ralske from Ultra Vivid Scene saying he regretted making the albums he made and that I loved, saying he wished he'd spent that part of his life making the tedious conceptual art he does now. No, Kurt, I prefer your Bataille meets Suicide pop records, frankly. I can't dance to conceptual art. Not with my hips. Commotions bass player, Lawrence Donegan, has called Easy Pieces "terrible". Lloyd Cole called the song Grace "terrible" and said of Minor Character it was ...
