Talk:Don't Stand Me Down

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[edit] Director's Cut DVD

The DVD is either encoded for the UK region, or else I just got a bum disc. --63.25.14.90 (talk) 00:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial failure.

Part of the reason DSMD failed in the marketplace just has to be the fact that, for so many of the songs, Rowland blew off the idea of singable poetic lyrics and just conversed, or babbled to himself -- and then mixed it too low to be understood. I have The Director's Cut, and there's no lyric sheet, which suggests that even today, with the benefit of hindsight, Rowland still doesn't get it -- or doesn't care -- that people want to understand what they're hearing, and they'd also prefer it to be melodic.

In other words, it's Kevin Rowland's fault, and not the fault of an insensitive, uncaring world.

Is this all just opinion? I can't help feeling there's a notable fact in here about the huge stretches of music that go on with nothing but muttering. --63.25.14.90 (talk) 00:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)