It’s disheartening
how a song like “Dear God” can mean so much at some point in life and then make
you cringe years later. Nobody told you ten years ago that those lyrics were
embarrassing. They seemed tough and audacious and hard-hitting, but now you
have to wonder how Andy Partridge even came up with such one-dimensional
tripe.
The video has
glimpses of artistic hope, the music still holds up and the kid’s voice at the
end is as chilling as it ever was, but there’s no question that lyrically this
is the sort of childish atheism you could find among faceless hordes of
Scandinavian death metal bands.
P.S. After all these
years, Drums And Wires is still their
best album.
