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Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics (2011)

by Jarvis Cocker(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0571281907 (ISBN13: 9780571281909)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: Ok. For me it was a trip to my youth. The songs that i used to sing and dance to, gathered in a book. I found myself sing the lyrics as i was reading th book. And the stories/explanations at the back of the book were really interesting. As a big Pulp and Jarvis Cocker fan, it was one of the best things i could read. And the good thing is that the lyrics work really nice as poems when you take the music away from them.
review 2: Utterly absorbing to have Jarvis's best lyrics presented together to get lost in for a few hours. Reading them without the melody brings new appreciation of just what clever social commentary he provides. I really enjoyed the insights into his thoughts when writing some of them, but felt a couple were a bit desultory, and I would have li... moreked more (every fab would). I thought the majority were quite insightful though and he does explain that he hates writing them, so fair enough for not being about to articulate the meaning behind every last word, when probably there is none. less

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