MacColl delivers another brilliant album with 1993's Titanic Days. The arrangements have become more ambitious, as evident in the jazzy "Bad" and the heavily orchestrated "Soho Square." The lyrics are still sharp with biting commentary, this time backed by a more dance-oriented pop.
When one of the most respected of all MOGgers revealed the other day that he owned only one Kirsty MacColl CD, and seemed generally unaware of her oeuvre, I was the teensiest bit scandalized (as Dame Edna might put it). After all, this is a man whose embrace - figurative, of course - of talented women who write songs and sing them superbly is second to no one's. And of all the talented women wh...