As for the album, the thing I find most intriguing about it, is the fact that you can't classify it. One song sounds like a Irish bar song, one song sounds like Jazz, another sounds like a Synthpop track, and then there's an Indie track thrown in for good measure. All good stuff.
The b-sides are pretty good, but I do find one thing odd about this album and the singles. Most of the remixes were done by Paul Oakenfold, one of my favorite DJs. At the time this album came out, he was knee deep in Perfecto, his pet and baby. These mixes should've been fantastic. They're pretty shitty, though, and that's a shock. As for the cover, I had to change the typeface and it's position. I hated it.
Where did you learn to shout with such a perfect voice
The brightest words I’d heard all week
You read magazines and I heard you speak
And now the world around you makes a perfect noise
The traffic coughs and now the coffee drips
And I can hear the words if I read your lips
You’re in the roof of my mouth
You’re on the tip of my tongue
You’ve come to be all the blood I need
And all the air in my lungs
You sit across the aisle a dozen miles away
You’re just a table across and I need to talk
But my body lost its will to walk
I stare at empty cup and wonder what we’ll say
But now you’re walking out and my pulse stops dead
And there’s a muffled shout inside my head
You’re in the roof of my mouth
You’re on the tip of my tongue
You’ve come to be all the blood I need
And all the air in my lungs
And this is where you sat so this is where I’ll wait
I know that you left and you’re nowhere near
But in my head you’re still right here
You’re in the roof of my mouth
You’re on the tip of my tongue
You’ve come to be all the blood I need
And all the air in my lungs
The brightest words I’d heard all week
You read magazines and I heard you speak
And now the world around you makes a perfect noise
The traffic coughs and now the coffee drips
And I can hear the words if I read your lips
You’re in the roof of my mouth
You’re on the tip of my tongue
You’ve come to be all the blood I need
And all the air in my lungs
You sit across the aisle a dozen miles away
You’re just a table across and I need to talk
But my body lost its will to walk
I stare at empty cup and wonder what we’ll say
But now you’re walking out and my pulse stops dead
And there’s a muffled shout inside my head
You’re in the roof of my mouth
You’re on the tip of my tongue
You’ve come to be all the blood I need
And all the air in my lungs
And this is where you sat so this is where I’ll wait
I know that you left and you’re nowhere near
But in my head you’re still right here
You’re in the roof of my mouth
You’re on the tip of my tongue
You’ve come to be all the blood I need
And all the air in my lungs
A great album but you're too harsh on the remixes for which I've always had a soft spot.
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