...in the case of The Thrill Of It All, the closing line from Dorothy Parkers brilliant Résumé: You might as well live. But that perfect moment of going on no matter what, wittier than dull existentialism and with as much joie de vivre as you want to bring to things, almost sums up the albums tactile thrill: live and do it all, and theres everything from cool regrets to hyperactive energy, snotty dismissiveness and love-drunk desperation. A later generation might call it first world problems run rampant, but the voice was still the miners son thriving in a postwar assumption of broader education and aspiration, elegance as signifier in response to unwritten sartorial laws and codes, a Gatsby who didnt have to worry about rum-running and was all for a slew of green lights all over the place....
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:38:33 +0000
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