Lloyd Cole's solo career hasn't brought a huge deal of success with just the one chart hit - Like Lovers Do back in 1995. I'm not sure if it has been Lloyd himself or the record label but some of his better material has been left behind as LP tracks with the stuff released as singles being weak.
This, the second single lifted from Bad Vibes in 1993 is an example of what I'm referring to:-
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Morning Is Broken
Bad Vibes isn't a great album - it's certainly my least favourite of all the solo material. But it does itself no favours by leading off with Morning Is Broken which is a rather dull song all round that still got issued as the second single from the LP. Maybe Lloyd saw something in it that few of the rest of us did.
The start of it nowadays reminds of the hit single Dominoes by The Big Pink, but for years I couldn't get out of my head that it was the sort of nonsense we'd be subjected to by Kula Shaker.
The single was shoved out on two CDs and the four tracks were a bit of a mixed bag:-
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Radio City Music Hall
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Eat Your Greens
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - The Slider
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Mannish Girl
The best of them is The Slider which happens to be a cover of a Marc Bolan song. The good thing is that a few years later, Lloyd did re-discover his mojo and nowadays his material and live shows are things of joy and often rare beauty.
Here's a TV performance from back in the day:-
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