TOTAL SCORE: 24, AVG: 1.71Looking back at my original entry for Devil Between My Toes (DBMT) 15 years ago, I can tell that my tastes have definitely changed, and I am not as into the pre-Propeller GBV sound as I may have been back then. Captain's Dead, the most latter GBV-sounding tune on the album is easily my favorite now, followed by the next most latter GBV-sounding song, The Tumblers. You can check out how the new scoring works here, but honestly I could cut DBMT a break by not counting the five instrumental tracks, but I decided to leave them in since the final score felt right to me (if you caught this review as soon as I posted it, at first I did take the instrumental tracks out of the scoring)...
In my original review I called A Portrait Destroyed by Fire the best song on the album, and now I'm demoting it to an "ok" rank, being beaten out by at least five other songs. I suppose 15 years can do a lot to change tastes, but listening to this album today I just wasn't really into it. That being said, only six songs made the playlist the first time through, so it wasn't like I considered DBMT as an essential album to start with. Here is the updated ranking:
Among Bob's Best
-- none
Gems
-- none
Almost Gems
12 The Tumblers14 Captain's Dead
They're Good
01 Old Battery
They're OK
02 Discussing Wallace Chambers
03 Cyclops
04 Crux
05 A Portrait Destroyed by Fire
09 Hank's Little Fingers
11 Hey Hey, Spaceman
Could Live Without
07 Dog's Out
Toss-Offs & Throwaways
06 3 Year Old Man
08 A Proud and Booming Industry
10 Artboat
13 Bread Alone
Given the scoring above, the album would get 22 points total (and an average of 1.71).
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Glad you're back at it.
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