ROPED (1992)

What distinguished this one was the concept of an electric A-side and an acoustic B-side, a conceit he borrowed from Neil Young;'s Rust Never Sleeps but didn't really stick to very religiously. Not every song on here is about divorce. Beautiful Joe was inspired by the children's book of the same title about an abused dog adopted by a boy. Laughing Stock was openly borrowing the title of a favorite Talk Talk album. Weatherland owes a lot to the writings of Thomas Wolfe (You Can't Go Home Again).

1. Laughing Stock
2. Beautiful Joe
3. Weatherland
4. Sure
5. Q
6. Hardly
7. Float
8. Nightmare I Love
9. Move Over
10. Big Farewell Song
11. Could
12. Blow
13. Only Drunk
14. Thank God
15. Solid Yellow Zero
16. Roped
17. Fake Haiku

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