‘Long Island’ is The Wave Pictures’ best song. Sure, Instant Coffee Baby was good but its oddly-apparently-written-out-of-history predecessor Sophie had LONG FUCKING ISLAND, a magical 3-and-something-minutes stream-of-consciousness stomp through… well, like, “the last swimmers crawled up from the pool, looked at my beautiful belly and drooled” and stuff like that. I think I would go even so far to say that it is one of the best songs written *of all time*, fully aware of the hyperbole but I don’t even care. I mean The Wave Pictures have done some other really good songs but ‘Now You Are Pregnant’ is beautiful and magical yeah but its just ever-(ever-so-slightly) you know, *obviously* beautiful and magical, whereas ‘Long Island’ is waaaayy off-kilter and counter-intutive. And the stuff on ‘Instant Coffee Baby’, a lot of it like the title track and ‘Avocado Baby’ and ‘Cassius Clay’ and such are top-quality songs, but I’m not going to list them with the all-time greats. ‘Long Island’ though, wow… when trawling their back catalogue for good bits of ‘Instant Coffee’ hey, maybe they should have considered that gem. Only thing is the version of ‘Sophie’ is pretty much there already, but they could have slapped it in somewhere for sure.
