Has anyone else heard this? I think it's better than most of the VR stuff. The cover for the album is a riff on John Coltrane's
Blue Train, which I think is really cool.
Example:
Weiland =
http://www.linge.de/music/records/mehldau/covers/12_bar_blues.jpgColtrane =
http://www.ngcsu.edu/cavalli/Blue-Train.jpgNot a huge Weiland fan, but his elastic vocals and experimental styles really work well here. He was on heroin when he wrote the album, and the lyrics are superbly nonsensical because of this. The music video for "Barbarella" is fucked up.