Old music: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Jennifer She Said

Even Lloyd Cole didn't need to fill a song this simple with too many words. Probably because he didn't have enough wordsPeople's recollections of Lloyd Cole tend to be that he was a bit clever: he and his Commotions formed at Glasgow University while Cole was studying philosophy; references to Simone de Beauvoir, Norman Mailer and Eva Marie Saint were scattered throughout the songs; and then there was the verbosity. My Bag, for example, almost collapses under its own word play: "Spin spin whisky...

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