Old Enough to Forget

Right off the bat let's shine a light on the elephant in the room. "Wouldn't It Be Good" is probably the song he's best remembered for, and for good reason. The petulant sulky song about the whiny kid who's self absorbed in his problems and you have no idea how bad he's got it. Waugh, waugh, waugh. It's also an absolutely killer song, and it is still an absolutely killer song. It was also the tip of the iceberg, but in order to understand the depth of his talent you'd have to immerse yourself and most people didn't bother. Frankly I can't claim to know that much either, I only have his first two albums. Those first two albums gave us a decent look at the bits floating on top, we were able to take a  picture and then moved on.  Maybe instead of trying to craft some elaborate and disconnected allegory (is it an allegory?) about frozen water, I should have just pigeon holed Nik as a one hit wonder ... but that wouldn't have been accurat...