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Eamonn


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So what is the root cause of the identity crisis that lurks among 'Jarvis', or should that be 'The Jarvis Cocker Record'?


It seems he can't decide whether to be known by his full or forename (the latest update suggest he's back to JC).


And what of some of the songs?


Why is 'Heavy Weather' not called 'Stormy Weather' since that what's we hear?


And why has a song as fantastically titled as 'From Auschwitz To Ipswich' been appended to 'From A To I' on track listings of the album on various media sources? Reasons of brevity presumably. But when Jarvis is asked by Jools Holland what song he's going to play next he even shuns the chance to show off the excellent full moniker of the song.


The americanisation/sexualisation of 'Tonite' (why not go the whole sms-hog, '2nite')  could also be thrown in.


So...what gives?



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I agree that the confusion with titles does seem to stand out - perhaps intentionally, at least I hope so, cos otherwise it just comes across as being a matter of rush releasing a project without changing it's working titles or actually fully considering the finished album as a whole.


"Heavy Weather" is perhaps called so because there is already a song called "Stormy Weather", but then again there is an Iggy/Bowie song called "Tonight", so maybe the americanisation is an attempt to differentiate the two....maybe I'm spending to much time thinking about this.



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Americans may be illiterate, by they spell "Tonight" just like the British. Jarvis has been spelling night wrong for over a decade now. (Nites of Suburbia, for instance). I believe it's also spelled wrong on the Relaxed Muscle album.

Speaking of the Relaxed Muscle album, there was some confusion over the song title Three-Way Accomidator, aka Let it Ride. I'm still not sure which name is the correct one.

And the tracklisting on the Sexualized / Billy Jack single is backward.

Either Jarvis is trying to confuse things, or he just doesn't care anymore.

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Or maybe Rough Trade - Jarvis' label for both his solo project and Relaxed Muscle - simply don't have the operating budgets of Island, and therefore have tighter deadlines for printing and press packs and stuff, or less office staff to take careful note of artists' dicking about with already-provided tracklistings, and can't accomodate last-minute changes to the same degree.

And it's 3-Way Accumulator.

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I noticed that when he performed From Auschwitz To Ipswich on Jools Holland he actually introduced it as being "From A to I".

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