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05-15-2013, 10:01 PM | #31 (permalink) | |
David Hasselhoff
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I love SGM. I've recorded two shows with my trusty Mini DV camcorder, one in Nashville, the other here in Seattle. I think they're closer to Prog than anything else |
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05-15-2013, 10:52 PM | #32 (permalink) |
I sleep in your hat
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I only have Grand Opening and Closing but thought it was pretty cool. Haven't been in the right mood to do any further exploration of their catalogue though. Never been too sure what makes something prog so no idea on that point.
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05-15-2013, 11:02 PM | #33 (permalink) | |
Mate, Spawn & Die
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In Glorious Times is just okay, but still worth checking out if you like the other two. |
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05-15-2013, 11:41 PM | #34 (permalink) | |
David Hasselhoff
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I think the high points of GO&C are slightly better than the best of ONH, but I think the first album is much more consistent. There are some down moments of GO&C ("The Creature") but the way that albums opens is just unbefeckinglievable, and Freedom Club is as well. But then again so are "Sleep Is Wrong: and "Ambugaton". When I get some time I'll upload some songs to YouTube that I recorded and post them to this thread |
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05-16-2013, 12:11 AM | #35 (permalink) | |
Mate, Spawn & Die
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That said, I love GO&C as well. "Sleep is Wrong", "Powerless", and to a lesser extent, "1997" are some of my favorite SMG songs as well. |
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05-16-2013, 12:19 AM | #36 (permalink) | |
David Hasselhoff
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Yeah, I got those two backwards. |
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05-16-2013, 12:24 AM | #37 (permalink) |
Mate, Spawn & Die
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Either way, I think we can both agree they put on a hell of a live show. I saw them without knowing anything about them and was completely blown away. That's what got me into them.
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05-16-2013, 12:46 AM | #38 (permalink) | |
David Hasselhoff
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Absofeckinglutely. I've already posted the Two Foot Yard clips from the show they played with SGM, it's just a matter of finding the time to upload some of the SGM songs to YouTube, I will be posting them here |
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05-30-2013, 11:35 AM | #40 (permalink) |
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I have loved everything they ever did, even that DVD "The Face".
They recently split, which sucks because the ONLY chance I had to see them, they were performing in a bar that you have to be 21 to get into and I was only 20 at the time. As a side note, have any of you been to any of those lyric meaning/interpretation sites and read some of the interpretations for Of Natural History!? It is hilarious! Tons of people tried to say "A Hymn to the Morning Star" was satanic. XD I went on one of them and wrote practically a 10,000 word essay on how nothing in the lyrics even comes close to being satanic or referring to Lucifer and gave the surface meaning of it (it is about Christianity), then further showed how that it was an allegory for the futurist movement and how the whole album is a metaphor of a dialogue between The Unibomber/Naturalist futurism and Dadaist futurism and then topped off the whole thing with a giant "even the band explicitly stated that is what the album is about". Also, the music video for "Helpless Corpses Enactment" is one of the best music videos I ever have seen. |
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