Plains is about as far from greasy or soulful as you can get. It is like one of Garrison Keillor's Swedish hymns performed without the funkiness. But, then again, a low Elvis score is no reason to complain. It is simply a fact. Just as Snoopy frugged madly to Schroeder's piano in A Charlie Brown Christmas, so too might you.
Plains encourages meditation rather than celebration.
Angelo Badalamenti reveal the niceness you always knew was their guiding principle, which is a fine thing to think about. Again, this is not bad. Instead, it is not Elvis. So too is the focus of these meditations. Rain and wind are not metaphors for anything else.