The problem I have with "Dead Ringer" is the production, not the songs themselves. The songs themselves are amazing.
> I find Jim's worst bits to be unlistenably poor. He's not
> an artist to me where even the clunkers are good like,
> say, Elton John** or The Beatles.
>
> • Rebel without a Clue is a boring song, with a shitty 80s
> arrangement with annoyingly little audibly discernible
> structure.
>
> • Holding Out For A Hero: Melody is completely
> forgettable, and sits uncomfortably atop a riff flown in
> from elsewhere… sounds like a frigging demo.
>
> • Peel Out strikes me as an interesting enough song I
> guess, but the arrangement and production (which Jim was
> at least 50% in control of, right?) are flat and
> uneventful and boring.
>
> Contrast this with It Just Won't Quit which is, to me, a
> fairly pedestrian song with a stunningly beautiful /
> stimulating / enchanting arrangement and production.
>
>
>
> ** Clunkers like his oft-criticised disco album where
> he contributes nothing but vocals — including Steve
> Lukather doing lead all over an 8 minute disco cover of
> Johnny B Goode! Fucking love it!
>
>
>
> > Im curious, Jim is a great songwriter. the best. but every
> > songwriter has a few clunkers.
> >
> > IMHO, besides the filler of the play MTYD, Jim's worst
> > song has got to be "20th Century Fox"
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