When this album came out it was talking about things that I was going into. Talking about Gramsci and Walter Benjamin.Or at least pretending to know about them in an attempt to impress others. Doscussing Jacques Derrida while appreciating good Pop Tunes. I was never really earnest enough to invest fully in Green and his cadre. Roddy Frame, The Go Betweens, Lloyd Cole, The Smiths and R.E.M. were my go tos. I was never a real academic or a 'on the barricade's frothing at the mouth tract guy. I liked being Middle Class. But I liked this record and there's certainly lots of wordplay which indicates perhaps that the Green never took it that seriously himself and always knew that the human heart was the thing.
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