Mainstream, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Music CD

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Mainstream


1	My Bag 3:56
2	From the Hip 3:57
3	29 5:28
4	Mainstream 3:14
5	Jennifer She Said 3:02
6	Mr. Malcontent 4:49
7	Sean Penn Blues 3:28
8	Big Snake 5:16
9	Hey Rusty 4:30
10	These Days 2:27

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If Lloyd Cole was less worried about depressing his listeners on his third album, he also seemed determined to stir them up, adopting various personas in his songs, from the lover who loses interest shortly after the wedding ceremony in "Jennifer She Said" (a U.K. Top 40 hit) to Sean Penn. There were a few song narrators who seemed close to the singer himself, and they sounded just as discontented. There was little to alleviate the vitriol in the music, which was unusually muted, and long before the end Cole had begun to sound like a crank. The album's saving grace was "Hey Rusty," a song with a Springsteen-like theme and a U2-like musical track. If there were more songs this coherent, specific, and moving, Mainstream might have ranked with Cole's first two albums. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Mainstream


1	My Bag 3:56
2	From the Hip 3:57
3	29 5:28
4	Mainstream 3:14
5	Jennifer She Said 3:02
6	Mr. Malcontent 4:49
7	Sean Penn Blues 3:28
8	Big Snake 5:16
9	Hey Rusty 4:30
10	These Days 2:27

All Music Guide

If Lloyd Cole was less worried about depressing his listeners on his third album, he also seemed determined to stir them up, adopting various personas in his songs, from the lover who loses interest shortly after the wedding ceremony in "Jennifer She Said" (a U.K. Top 40 hit) to Sean Penn. There were a few song narrators who seemed close to the singer himself, and they sounded just as discontented. There was little to alleviate the vitriol in the music, which was unusually muted, and long before the end Cole had begun to sound like a crank. The album's saving grace was "Hey Rusty," a song with a Springsteen-like theme and a U2-like musical track. If there were more songs this coherent, specific, and moving, Mainstream might have ranked with Cole's first two albums. William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Format: CD
Original Release: 1987
Release Date: 03/26/1991
Label: POLYGRAM UK
Catalog No.: 833691
UPC: 042283369122
Sales Rank: 86,328

Album Credits
Performance Credits
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions		Primary Artist, Guitar, Vocals
Jon Hassell		Trumpet
Tracey Thorn		Vocals
Nicky Holland		Background Vocals
Neil Clark		Guitar
Blair Cowan		Keyboards
Lawrence Donegan		Bass Guitar
Stephen Irvine		Drums
Tony Jackson		Background Vocals
John Sloman		Background Vocals
Tommy Willis		Lap Steel Guitar
Fraser Speirs		Harmonica

Technical Credits
Nicky Holland		String Arrangements
Ian Stanley		Producer
Femi Jiya		Engineer