THE UNDERATED SECOND LP

Everyone I knew in the mid 80s.....and I mean everyone......adored Rattlesnakes, the debut LP from Lloyd Cole & The Commotions.  It's a record packed with great tunes that you can latch on to immediately while lyrically its as fine an album as any.  Poetry and prose set to music....However, not so many folk seem so fond of the follow-up Easy Pieces, released in 1985 just 13 months after the debut.  While Rattlesnakes was commemorated with a 20th Anniversary Tour in 2004 (where the band playe...

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