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Een verzoekje van Mapelero. 
Ik ben van plan om nog veel meer van Lloyd Colle te spotten met en zonder The Commotions, ook wat bijzonder materiaal.
Maar we beginnen met zijn bekendste werk.

Ps .. zelf mis ik Mainstream nog ...

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
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01 - Perfect Skin 
02 - Speedboat 
03 - Rattlesnakes 
04 - Down On Mission Street 
05 - Forest Fire (Extended Version) 
06 - Charlotte Street 
07 - 2cv 
08 - Four Flights Up 
09 - Patience 
10 - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken  
11 - Sweetness 
12 - Andy's Babies 
13 - The Sea And The Sand 
14 - You Will Never Be No Good

een review :  Rattlesnakes is a nearly perfect pop album. In the late 1980s, the time for singer/songwriters seemed past. But Rattlesnakes showed that lyrically creative material set to jaunty pop tunes still resonated. Whether it is a woman sharing with us the profound pick-up line "do you want to go to heaven, or would you rather not be saved?" or the ironic refrain of being "four flights up" and still feeling like "I'm underground", the lyrics transport us to places we often search out, and rarely hear memorialized in song. The Commotions provide a folk pop backing which is gentle and yet derived from the "rock" tradition much more than the soul or slick pop that would characterize some later Cole work. Cole's voice is expressive--alternatively exuberant, gentle or tinged with despair. With a dozen years' hindsight, we wish that Lloyd Cole's muse and the corporations for which he recorded had continued him down this path, and deflected him from some of the more "hip" and commercial paths he later tried to tread. Still, this is a great work of understated beauty. This album anticipates Duncan Sheik quite a bit, and yet is in some ways more boisterous and witty than Mr. Sheik's excellent first album (which it may well have influenced). If you do not have this one, I strongly urge you to buy it.