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Solid Bronze: Great Hits
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Solid Bronze: Great Hits
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Solid Bronze: Great Hits
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Long live subversive, cutting lyrics couched in pastel-colored, unassuming, melodic
. But aren't two compilation albums -- even if the second one has the modest superlative-eschewing subtitle "Great Hits" -- in 13 years a bit much? With 19 tracks to the 15 on 1994's
, the intention on
, it would seem, is to be the definitive
collection, never mind the squillion-odd people who bought
. Unforgivably,
shares not one, not two, but a whopping seven tracks with its predecessor. Which effectively means you are buying the
remix of
a couple of other tracks off
, the
cover
from the
soundtrack, a couple tunes from
, the one mandatory new song,
and a "rarity,"
And don't forget the cleaned-up version of
Sure,
is a great songwriter,
and
have lovely voices, and every song here is good in its own way, but you can't help thinking of the whole album as an enterprise ironically marked by the cynicism that distinguishes some of the
's best songs. ~ Leslie Mathew