![]() He tattles on his classmates, his brother, and even his dog But one night he wakes up to find his tongue is very long, yellow, and covered in bright purple spots. In the end the biggest disappointment is that something so desperate to reek of sincerity – if not authenticity – is actually fraudulent, calculated, cynical and ultimately redundant. ISBN: 978-1931636865 Buy the Book Buy the Activity Book Buy the Poster No one likes Josh the Tattler because he tattles way too much. But I have enough of that to listen to – I don’t need inferior tag-along twee-twaddle. Pinning down just what was meant with tell. Here is another great example of the school yard taunt. I just hear every song as a wannabe sly update of Paul Simon, especially the early solo records. Tell Tale Tit, Your tongue shall be slit And all the dogs in the town Shall have a little bit. And, sure, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover (even though we often do) so you can certainly fault the rustic-overload approach of chucking fiddles and fingerpicking in the vague direction of any and every song.Īnd you can certainly fault the near-plagiarism of every single song sounding just like a busker’s version of what they think Paul Simon might have sounded like if he wasn’t a) quite as good as he actually is and/or b) born not at the right time but rather post 1980. And you can’t fault – really – the playing of singer/guitarist Cy Winstanley and singer/bassist Vanessa McGowan.īut you can fault the calculated approach the hipster drawing for the front cover to make them appear cooler (perhaps?) than they actually are. When I first heard this I thought it was kinda sweet, it’s certainly nice in that almost-unctuous way that the word ‘nice’ often suggests, both a compliment and then sorta not really a compliment at the same time.
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