06-18-2016, 09:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-18-2016, 09:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
Who By Numbers was created at a time when Pete and the guys were going through some rough times. In his usual tendency for hyperbole, he spoke of the album as a suicide note. But though, as he said, that the direction of the album was negative, he also maintained correctly that the music was nevertheless of high quality. This one (However Much I Booze) is certainly first rate, and would certainly demonstrate that you can express problems and even cynicism with high artistry, beauty and psychological insight. Pete was great at that; that's for sure.
Pete had a tendency to drop some "dirty words" in his songs on occasion. Since Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, USA broadcast media has been required to censor those words. I didn't even know until I read the comments on this video that this song had a dirty word. I would have to have re-recorded it, bleeping out the word in order to play it on my old radio show. Of course "Who Are You" was a hit before this obsession with "obscenity" took hold in the Dubya years of the culture wars, and they got away with singing "who the fuck are you?" Now I suppose it has to be censored every time it's played.
Pete had a tendency to drop some "dirty words" in his songs on occasion. Since Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, USA broadcast media has been required to censor those words. I didn't even know until I read the comments on this video that this song had a dirty word. I would have to have re-recorded it, bleeping out the word in order to play it on my old radio show. Of course "Who Are You" was a hit before this obsession with "obscenity" took hold in the Dubya years of the culture wars, and they got away with singing "who the fuck are you?" Now I suppose it has to be censored every time it's played.