I recall buying this album on CD when Bedazzled Records (the label that originally released it) was still in business--I had enjoyed The Curtain Society's 'Inertia' so much (I'll say mare about that particular album in my review of it), I was eager to hear what this album sounded like.

Unfortunately, the first time I haeard this album, I was disappointed, because (to me--I was vey young and very stupid at the time) the album didn't strike me as being very good--I recall being particularly annoyed by the song "Stealing Shakespeare", which i didn't (and still don't) "get", which led to my selling my CD copy of this album (an action I've come to regret), I hated that song so much...

I was inspired to give this album another try when I heard Danella Hocevar (formerly of An April March) covering the title song ("Life Is Long, Still") on An April March's "...something once true, is always true..." CD-single (TCS' Roger Lavallee played guitar on her version, by the way), but by then the album was out of print and impossible to find, until it (and 'Inertia') recently became available as digital downloads--I chose to download it from CD Baby because while iTunes and Amazon.com might have it for less, jou just get the songs, and not a .jpeg file of the cover art (in case you want to print a cover for the album once you burn it to CD), and you also don't get a file with notes on the album. (Plus, as someone at CD Baby pointed out, the artists get a higher share of the money when you download their music from CD Baby...)

So, how do I like this album now that I've had the chance to give it another chance? Well, I like it--I like it a LOT, even though, as I Said, it's not 'Inertia' (but then it's not supposed to be--if TCS kept 'making the same album over and over' [as someone once said of Dirty Three], they'd be simply BORING!). 

I like just about the whole album (with the exception of the afore-mentioned "Stealing Shakespeare", plus I think the version of "Mouthwithout" that TCS had on their website [which they titled simply "Mouthwithout Version Two"] was better than the one on 'Life Is Long, Still'), but all in all, I like this album very much, thank you! (But it's too hard for me to pick a favorite track, so I just leave it at that...)
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