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Originally Posted by andy
I actually think some of wires worst lyrics are in there.
On a lot of songs, especially "side 2" of the record, he very much goes into sub Richey style for me.
Nicks lyrics are more immediate and less cynical than richeys normally and they also have different phrasings whereas here he tried to be Richey for me such as:
"Klaus Kinski with love of Werner Herzog"
Or
"Srebrenica cousin of Treblinka"
And
"And Dante's Inferno slides into dismorphia"
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But that's the whole point of them. They are some postmodern Richey parody with Wire consciously trying and wallowing in the failure of it. This was a major manifestation of Wire's post-Richey success guilt.
But it's true - you either love it or hate it.