I kind of liked it, but there's a sameyness to it, and the beats and the rapping are samey in the same way (so there definitely is a coheherence), and I guess I wouldn't be too thrilled about what's the same in it even if it had only been for a few songs. And this free-association vaguely scientific stuff seems right in my wheelhouse (except for the peepee doodoo stuff, whose appeal to anyone has always gone over my head), but I guess not. I can see why Dan the Automator might've made a splash at the time; few of the beats do too much for me but I can see his later work being pretty great if he built on this. Blue Flowers is far and away the best song, though A Visit to the Gynecologist is an interlude for the ages.
Choice cuts: Blue Flowers, A Visit to the Gynecologist, Halfsharkalligatorhalfman
While I was watching this I was thinking that I understood better this time around why people think this is one of Ford's best but when I'm writing this I'm not so sure. I like that it juggles that Main Street USA feel with a serious commentary about the evolution of the modern west so effortlessly, but in a lot of ways it feels like a paler imitation of his harder-hitting stuff.
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