Five Easy Pieces of four: The title of "Five Easy Pieces" refers not to the women its hero makes along the road, for there are only three, but to a book of piano exercises he owned as a child. The film, one of the best American films, is about the distance between that boy, practicing to become a concert pianist, and the need he feels 20 years later to disguise himself as an oil-field rigger. When we sense the boy, tormented and insecure, trapped inside the adult man, "Five Easy Pieces" becomes a masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity... The movie is joyously alive to
Easy Pieces filled with Cole tones alone, that each tune becomes part of a suety whole. Individually many of the tracks are opalescent, but the overriding feel becomes one of a long (too long) excursion into [...] American country pop." In the US "Spin" was more enthusiastic, stating, "The promise reflected on their impressive debut album "Rattlesnakes" has been kept... [Cole] and the Commotions write clean, crisp, guitar-oriented pop songs with addictive hook lines." All lyrics written by Lloyd Cole, all songs composed by Cole except where noted. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: Additional personnel: Easy Pieces Easy Pieces is the second