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Smeghead 12:42 am UTC 06/15/09
In reply to: re: What Part Of My Body... - Smeghead 12:41 am UTC 06/15/09

That kind of Blind faith I wouldn't expect from you... saying that "Just because Jim hasn't shown us that he's written anything new in 15 years doesn't mean he isn't sitting on 100 new songs"

> I'm quite positive that Jim was giving everything he had
> that could go on a pop album (not things like Graveyard
> Shift or Joker's Song) to TDE. Even Rob said he had no
> idea that Jim wrote so little. Jim is just not the type
> to have a ton of unreleased stuff sitting around and then
> keep recycling old stuff. He recycles because that is
> what he has. Really... if he had more stuff to throw into
> Wuthering Heights he wouldn't have needed to hire Hewitt
> Huntwork...
>
> > No, the fact is, we don't know what he has or hasn't
> > written, because we haven't heard anything doesn't mean
> > nothing exists.
> >
> > TDE had the right idea, perform old songs that most people
> > know and add just a couple of new ones, get established,
> > then release an album. The final part fell flat on its
> > arse because the whole project was mismanaged.
> >
> > > I think the fact that he has barely written anything since
> > > Tanz and nothing that we know of since the strokes is a
> > > pretty good reason to believe it doesn't exist... he
> > > pulled out every little unheard thing he had saved up when
> > > TDE was happening and all we got were recycled songs from
> > > Batman/DOTV/Cry Baby...
> > >
> > > > > Nobody can give any reason to believe Jim has more songs up his sleeve.
> > > >
> > > > And nobody can give any reason to believe that he hasn't
> > > > got more songs up his sleeve, since they are up his sleeve
> > > > ;-)


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