Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Soft Boys, A Can of Bees (CD)

My CD of A Can of Bees, a 1990 pressing on Two Crabs, confuses me. A bit of Internet research tells me that there were several different sequences of the album on vinyl. The CD definitely does not resemble the sequence of my vinyl copy (also on Two Crabs, strangely), plus it's not a particularly good sounding master (the treble is really weak). 1979's A Can of Bees is more meandering and less focused than the Soft Boys' canonical Underwater Moonlight, from a year later, and all of the confusion with sequences does not help it achieve focus. With that said, the album contains some great songs, including the classic "Human Music", that display how powerful the band would quickly become. The silly cover art can only be purposeful.

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