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- A1 Weatherman and Skin Goddess
- B1 Kiss the Quiet Man
- B2 Coat Factory Zero
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Pollard has always had a penchant for leaving good songs off the albums: some of his greatest work in the early 90s was housed on the numerous singles and EPs of the period, but even as late as Earthquake Glue he was keeping off stuff like "Broken Brothers". Off to Business is solid in its own right, but I honestly think these two b-sides are better than anything on the album. "Kiss the Quiet Man" is lovely and charmingly absurd ("the quiet man whose noble flesh is hungry / the quiet man comes to eat your children"), and "Coat Factory Zero" is the rare Pollard song that actually benefits from the studio. The whole thing is topped off by the Sing It Again, Rod cover.
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Robert Pollard's best solo single. His A-side choices tend toward the eccentric, but "Weatherman and Skin Goddess" hits the summertime pop sweet spot. I put this on in June. Across five minutes and twenty-one seconds—Pollard's lengthiest A-side yet—a sunny verse builds up to a soaring crescendo, then plops down for a quick breather before it gets up and starts all over again.
Trivia note about the two B-sides: For a time, Pollard wanted the interlocked "Kiss the Quiet Man" and "Coat Factory Zero" to be the opening tracks of the Robert Pollard is Off to Business album, but he decided on another song, "The Original Heart", for that slot. The two displaced tracks didn't fit anywhere else on the LP so Pollard made 'em B-sides.
Trivia note about the two B-sides: For a time, Pollard wanted the interlocked "Kiss the Quiet Man" and "Coat Factory Zero" to be the opening tracks of the Robert Pollard is Off to Business album, but he decided on another song, "The Original Heart", for that slot. The two displaced tracks didn't fit anywhere else on the LP so Pollard made 'em B-sides.
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The more I hear it, the more "Kiss the Quiet Man" cements itself as one of my favorite Pollard solo tunes.
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