Während alle Welt Maximilian Hecker und seine seifigen Schmonzetten über den grünen Klee lobt, fristet der ungleich begabtere Patrick Goldstein alias Goldstoned aus Berlin fast ein Schattendasein. Das muss sich ändern ! Wer Zitat-Pop mag, XTC schätzt, den Verstand beim Hören nicht ausknipst, dem Britischen zugetan ist, dem Burlesken und dem Vaudeville, könnte schlimmere Fehler machen, als Goldstoned zu entdecken. "Who do you like better", wird gefragt, "the Beatles or the Stones?". Die Antwort ist: The Who. Oder "the who?". so ist die ganze platte.  

This is the third LP by Patrick Goldstein AKA Goldstoned and it follows very closely in the feet of the last, in that it is available in vinyl format only and that the "programme" is a number of songs inter cut with out take vocals from various movies etc... which lace it together into one titanic (in-separable) audial extravaganza. While that makes it a bitch when trying to take a song off for a comp CD for the car, he can be forgiven because the quality is excellent. A song like Brill Building which has a somewhat comical title has within some brilliant lines such as " I thought our love was like an album, so true. But it was only a bonus track to you..... Sweet, our love was like a song, a 12 inch but not long. Don't keep me hanging on". Musically it wanders close to stuff like the Kane Gang I think, while perhaps remaining closer to guitar jangle and the odd dash of Bacharach sentimentality. It is also a LONG player. I didn't time it and it doesn't say, but there's a lot of music on this record, and virtually all of it is just as poptastic as it gets. It loses a tenth for the bitch it will be copying it, but this is as good a reason as there is to own a record player. Sweet.

Hip-ometer Rating ~ 9.9

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