Chicagoist: Not Your Ordinary Joe

lamgray

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:12:51 -0600

WHAT? It doesn't NEED to rhyme to be genious. . .I actually think sometimes its more genious NOT to rhyme. . .take Lou Reed's 'I Can't Stand It.' "It's hard being a man living in a garbage pail My landlady called me up, she tried to hit me with a mop" Up and Mop don't exactly rhyme. . and COME ON. . it would have BEEN SO EASY to rhyme Man with Can, but he didn't b/c he didn't want to subscribe with that. If you're listening to music just for the rhyming, then I suggest watching some School House Rock. . .If you're suggesting that an artist is only good if its an exact copy of Dylan, then you're even more foolish. Pug has his own style, and doesn't need to subscribe to copying an icon to fufill his greatness. That's just limiting your taste to a stupic prescribed formula, and I feel sorry for you.

TheEnginist

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:20:31 -0600

Yes, he is potentially a great lyricist, but unfortunately he has one troubling habit that may limit his greatness: some of his rhymes don't rhyme. For example, in "Hymn 101" he rhymes jaw with all, meet with sleep, kiss with insist, and, in the beginning, ship with both list and it. This is cheating. Dylan, one of the greatest rhymers of all time, rarely--less than 10% of the time--lazily matches only the vowels. And Shakespeare, to take another example, never cops out with a half rhyme in any one of his sonnets. If Mr. Pug is to realize his enormous potential, he will have to be a little more attentive to craft. I hope he does.

Margaret Lyons

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:59:23 -0600

Eargasms. This is so awesome.

unclewu

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:51:51 -0600

Thank you Lizz. Excellent; hope he comes through Cincy soon.

sasper

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:44:07 -0600

Wow. Great find. Very reminiscent of Hank & Dylan. Hopefully he'll have a show one of the weekends I'm back in Chicago.