“Almost-perfect” because, even though every one of the album’s nine songs was meticulously assembled and subtly, engagingly performed, the last track, “Psycho Drama” was not a song at all, but rather a ten-minute Maltese Falcon-inspired radio play, humorous and clever to be sure, but depriving the listener of two or three more samples of Holmes’ mastery of the short-story-in-pop-song form. Holmes)-both Hollywood- and American songbook-inspired, but with a strong and savvy Beatles, Nilsson, and Jeff Lynne modernist melodicism at their core-that explored with great humor and lyrical bite the tail-end of adolescent neurosis, self-doubt, and romantic fumbling in a variety of musical and dramatic settings, the clever wordplay and Broadway-bound urban sophistication of which belied their author’s humble roots in the tiny exurban enclave of Nanuet, New York. “Widescreen” was filled with stately, catchy, sweepingly cinematic and heavily orchestrated story-songs (a genre termed “Film Rock” by Mr. The artist called himself Rupert Holmes (an ear-catching pseudonym), and called the record “Widescreen”.
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In 1974, an unknown twenty-seven year old tunesmith recorded and released the almost-perfect pop album.