HW: Lighthouse is (not) STOOPID

[J Strobridge]

John Majka writes:

> At 08:40 AM 6/23/97 +0100, you wrote:
> >No, Sorry,
> >
> >The Lyrics to Lighthouse are utter unmitigated toss.
> >
> >'light the lasers in your heaaaaaart'   What is that??
>
>
> yes, I've always hated the STOOPID lyrics to Lighthouse (which are sort of
> typical of that 70's prog "I'm so deep" lyrical movement which usually only
> produced the dumbest crap).

> The music kind of sucks too.

Ah now I am impelled to rise in support of Lighthouse!    I never heard
Blake do this track while he was with the band but I'm fairly sure that
no recording outside of the studio can do his playing real justice.

The lyrics may be a tad sentimental and New Agely slushy for today's
street-wise cynics but he is a brilliant electronic synths player and
the tragedy is that his best music is really only to be found on the
studio albums he made (New Jerusalem and Crystal Machine) in the 80s.
Lighthouse heard live on stage through a huge amplified sound system
would probably have a terrific sound which doesn't come over in the
recording at all but he really is/was a composer of excellent electronic
music and it's a real shame he never developed his abilities and made
more albums of the really high quality music he was creating at that
time.

jill

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