So Ironic.
On another note, it's so ironic that the one album that was so overly orchestrated with the pop-eighties sound is the one from which he chose songs for an accoustic arrangment in concert. It almost seems like he wanted to put these songs in their proper context after the album was not well received. And if Gord hadn't had the bad experience with that project, I don't think he would have gone on a 7-year hiatus before he released WFY. I also thought that title was very ironic--we were waiting for him to write! He even has a line in the song that says "waiting for you to ask what's keeping me". Too much irony.
I remember seeing a quote that he felt like he "didn't have anything left to say" after releasing EOM. It was a real set back because he had talked the record company into letting him produce it his own way, and he seemed to think this album would get him back on track.
Just think of the music we could have had from his later prime years while he still had a full rich sound--if he had been producing during the late eighties. It was such a long time, we sort of figured he was through writing and recording. He's only had three projects since, and none has come that close to the work he did before EOM. The consolation was that WFY was a return to the true accoustic sound.
[This message has been edited by Martin/12 (edited June 24, 2004).]
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