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Miles Archer

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3. When they turned the corner into harcore top 40 pop, they lost me
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 12:05 PM
Jan 2014

I did enjoy the first four albums, back in the day...but I thought they peaked with the fourth one, "Dog and Butterfly." I liked it primarily for "Mistral Wind," which took Ann & Nancy's Led Zep fetish to its peak. After they recorded that song, for me, they had nothing left to say.

But they said it anyway.

I thought the next album, "Bebe le Strange," was pure trash, ESPECIALLY the title track. You want to talk about Ann annoying the piss out of you? I'd say that on that song she is at her most annoying. They had jumped the shark and never found their way back after that.



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