"Dead Ringer" should be revisited. I really liked that idea where several musicians from this board assembled their tribute recordings. Something like "Merciless Night". Then include the Scaramouche track as a bonus, in tribute to the "Nocturnal Pleasure" that we all must have once thought was "an actual song".
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> It's gotten dismissed over the years because of the bad
> production. But if you go into the listening experience
> with an open mind, you start to see something more
> passionate and extreme and scary. "I'm Gonna Love Her For
> Both Of Us", "More Than You Deserve", "I'll Kill You If
> You Don't Come Back" and "Read 'Em And Weep" are almost
> sinister, back-to-back. That's a lot of "the dark side of
> love" there, and it's not broken up. I don't even see
> "Dead Ringer For Love" as comic relief. "Everything Is
> Permitted", to me, is like the aftermath of a murder.
> That's what's going through the culprit's mind as he
> watches everything unfold. The album feels like the
> build-up to a murder, or some scary confrontation, that
> I've never come across in any other album I've heard.
> There's an intimacy, and there's intensity in that
> intimacy, that you don't get from the others. "Dead
> Ringer" freaks me out.
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> I can't remember who told the story about "Dead Ringer"
> reflecting the urban legend about the people who ring
> bells "in their tombs" to let other people know that they
> haven't really died. "Dead ringer for Love". Again, the
> production and the arrangement on that CD takes away all
> of that. You'd never think this way about it if you didn't
> pay close attention to the lyrics, and just focused on the
> production.
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